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Everest Contact Forms Spam Protection: How to Stop Fake Entries in WordPress
Everest Forms can be used for much more than a simple contact form. Many WordPress websites use it for inquiries, lead generation, bookings, quote requests, surveys, applications, payments, quizzes, file uploads, and customer feedback. That flexibility is useful for real visitors, but it also creates more entry points for spam. If an Everest form is
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From which CMS spam more often?
The statistics are based on data from anti-spam service CleanTalk, for the period from April 2015 to March 2016. The analysis was conducted for the following CMS: WordPress, Joomla, 1C Bitrix, Drupal, phpBB3.0, phpBB3.1, IP.Board, SimpleMachines, MediaWiki. The analysis was attended by all the POST requests processed by the service, such as comments, registration, contact…
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The change the title of the WordPress plugin
We changed the old title of the plugin for WordPress “Anti-Spam by CleanTalk” to the new “Spam protection by CleanTalk”. Don’t worry, we want to test how people perceive the long and short titles.
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Non-visual methods to protect the site from spam. Part 3. Repeats
Continuation of the article Non-visual methods to protect the site from spam Part 3: Repeats of substrings As mentioned above, non-visual methods for site protection against spam using text analysis. One of the most common spam signals – is the presence of repeated strings. As always, these examples are taken from actual company data CleanTalk.…
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Non-visual methods to protect the site from spam. Part 2. The true face of symbols
Continuation of the article Non-visual methods to protect the site from spam Part 2: The true face of symbols Non-visual methods to protect website from spam use, in particular, the analysis of the transmitted text. Spammers use many techniques to complicate the analysis. Here will be shown examples of one of them, namely, substitution of…