Ridding your site of Spam comments and registrations is an on-going battle. But if you arm yourself with the best defenses, you’ll be much better poised to win the war.
Forminator is a free, easy-to-use WordPress form builder plugin that protects your forms from bogus comments and registrations at all times, using a combination of industry-leading anti-spam tools.
Preventing form and comment spam in WordPress starts by zeroing in on how it gets through. With spammers and bots growing by the day, tools that recognize (and stop) them with a high degree of accuracy is vital.
When creating a form in Forminator, like a new user registration, you can enable a combination of the most successful methods for eliminating spam.
In this article, we’re going to look at what the top tools of the trade are when it comes to the prevention of form and comment spam. Then we’ll see how to put each one into action in Forminator’s settings.
It won’t be long until you see that Forminator’s spam protections are fastidious and formidable.
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Let’s look at the tools in Forminator that help to keep spam at bay.
Triple Threat (Protection)
As the cunning moves spammers & bots use continue to rise, so do (thankfully) the tools to outsmart them.
Forminator takes full advantage of the most solid contenders available. The top three–while not foolproof—are highly popular and effective in their own right.
Captcha
Forminator has two different CAPTCHA options available for you to implement: reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha.
Google’s reCAPTCHA has been at the forefront of bot mitigation for over a decade. Applying continuous machine learning to overcome the binary logic of traditional challenge-based detection technologies, it actively protects the data of five million sites.
Using an advanced risk analysis engine and adaptive challenges, reCAPTCHA keeps malicious software from engaging in abusive activities on your website. Meanwhile, legitimate users will be able to login, view pages, create accounts, and complete transactions with little to no fuss–especially with reCAPTCHA v3.
reCAPTCHA is free, even for Enterprise accounts–for up to 1 million Assessments per month.
hCaptcha BannerhCaptcha is a privacy focused company, providing reliable bot detection while being simple for humans to solve. They present CAPTCHA challenges that are difficult for bots but easy for people by collecting difficult-to-label data from machine learning problems, and using it to distinguish
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This article was written by Janette Burhans and originally published on WPMU DEV Blog.