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GiveWP Forms – Spam Protection for WordPress
CleanTalk added spam protection for GiveWP Forms using direct form integration. So in case, you prefer using GiveWP Forms be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. Read the guide below and learn steps to protect your GiveWP Forms from spam.

Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download GiveWP Forms

Install GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform

To have the plugin installed follow this steps,
1. Search for the plugin in,
WordPress console -> Plugins -> Add plugin -> Search -> givewp.
1. Install and Activate the plugin.
1. Add a campaign and forms in,
WordPress console -> GiveWP -> Campaigns -> Forms

That’s all! GiveWP is installed.

How to install CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

To install the Anti-Spam plugin, go to your WordPress admin panel → Plugins → Add New.

Then enter «СleanTalk» in the search box and click the Install button for «Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk».

After installing the plugin, click the «Activate»‎ button.

After it is done go to the plugin settings and click the «Get Access Key Automatically» button. Then just click the «Save Settings»‎ button.

That’s it! From now you How to completely protect your GiveWP Forms from spam.

How to check spam protection for GiveWP Forms

You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for GiveWP by using a test email,

stop_email@example.com
1. First, open the form in an Incognito browser tab.
2. Choose amount to donate.
3. In the next step fill out the account name data and the stop_email@example.com.
4. You must see a message as below and in the screenshot.
*** Forbidden. Fraud prevention. Sender blacklisted. Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. ***

In addition, in the Cloud Dashboard you can find extra details regarding all submissions for the donation form,
- IP, Email of the donator. As well as history of activity a sender among other sites connected to CleanTalk’s cloud.
- Geolocation of the sender.
- Date and time of submission.
- Page (URL) of the submission.
- Cloud decision – Approved, Denied.
- Cloud explanation for the decision.
- Tools to move the sender to Block or Allow lists.
The Dashboard and Anti-Spam log is here https://cleantalk.org/my/show_requests

If you have any questions, add a comment in form down below and we will be happy to help you.

Create your CleanTalk account – Register now and protect your GiveWP Forms from spam in 5 minutes

Discover the complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here.
January 29, 2026
QuickCal Spam Protection for WordPress

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QuickCal forms is a good choice when you need to use a powerful booking calendar. Always be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. For example CleanTalk Anti-Spam will guarantee your QuickCal booking form spam protection in about 5 minutes.

Once CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your WordPress website. It may not only be QuickCal forms but many others.

Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download QuickCal plugin

How to install CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

To install the Anti-Spam plugin, go to your WordPress admin panel → Plugins → Add New.

Then enter «СleanTalk» in the search box and click the Install button for «Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk».

After installing the plugin, click the «Activate»‎ button.

After it is done go to the plugin settings and click the «Get Access Key Automatically» button. Then just click the «Save Settings»‎ button.

That’s it! From now your WordPress website and QuickCal forms are protected from spam.

You can always use our detailed installation instructions.

How to check your QuickCal forms spam protection in about 5 minutes

You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your QuickCal forms by using a test email s @ cleantalk.org (without spaces). First, open the form in an Incognito browser tab. Fill in all the required form fields and send a form. After submitting the form, you will see a block message about the block on the form submission.

If you have any questions, add a comment and we will be happy to help you.

Create your Cleantalk account – Register now and enjoy your spam-free QuickCal forms.

You may view a complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here. https://cleantalk.org/help/introduction

WordPress spam protection

July 31, 2025
Events Manager Spam Protection for WordPress

Events Manager forms is a good choice when you need to use contact form for surveys, quizzes and many others. Always be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. For example CleanTalk Anti-Spam will guarantee your Events Manager forms spam protection in about 5 minutes.

Once CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your WordPress website. It may not only be Events Manager forms but many others.

Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download Events Manager

How to install CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

To install the Anti-Spam plugin, go to your WordPress admin panel → Plugins → Add New.

Then enter «СleanTalk» in the search box and click the Install button for «Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk».

After installing the plugin, click the «Activate»‎ button.

After it is done go to the plugin settings and click the «Get Access Key Automatically» button. Then just click the «Save Settings»‎ button.

That’s it! From now your WordPress website and Events Manager forms are protected from spam.

You can always use our detailed installation instructions.

How to check your Events Manager spam protection in about 5 minutes

You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your Events Manager by using a test email s @ cleantalk.org (without spaces). First, open the form in an Incognito browser tab. Fill in all the required form fields and send a form. After submitting the form, you will see a block message about the block on the form submission.

If you have any questions, add a comment and we will be happy to help you.

Create your Cleantalk account – Register now and enjoy your spam-free Events Manager form.

You may view a complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here. https://cleantalk.org/help/introduction

WordPress spam protection

July 31, 2025
Asgaros Forum Spam Protection for WordPress

Asgaros Forum is a good choice if you want to extend your website with a lightweight and feature-rich discussion board. Always be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin though. For example CleanTalk Anti-Spam will guarantee your Asgaros Forum spam protection in about 5 minutes.

Once CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your WordPress website. It may not only be Asgaros forum but many others.

Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download Asgaros plugin

How to install CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

To install the Anti-Spam plugin, go to your WordPress admin panel → Plugins → Add New.

Then enter «СleanTalk» in the search box and click the Install button for «Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk».

After installing the plugin, click the «Activate»‎ button.

After it is done go to the plugin settings and click the «Get Access Key Automatically» button. Then just click the «Save Settings»‎ button.

That’s it! From now your WordPress website and Asgaros forum are protected from spam.

You can always use our detailed installation instructions.

How to check your Asgaros forum spam protection in about 5 minutes

You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your Asgaros forum by using a test email s @ cleantalk.org (without spaces). First, open the form in an Incognito browser tab. Fill in all the required form fields and submit the form. After submitting the form, you will see a block message about the block on the form submission.

If you have any questions, add a comment and we will be happy to help you.

Create your Cleantalk account – Register now and enjoy your spam-free Asgaros forum.

You may view a complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here. https://cleantalk.org/help/introduction

WordPress spam protection

July 31, 2025
SureForms Spam Protection for WordPress

SureForms is a good choice when you need to use contact form. Always be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. For example CleanTalk Anti-Spam will guarantee your SureForms spam protection in about 5 minutes.

Once CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your WordPress website. It may not only be SureForms forms but many others.

Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download SureForms

How to install CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

To install the Anti-Spam plugin, go to your WordPress admin panel → Plugins → Add New.

Then enter «СleanTalk» in the search box and click the Install button for «Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk».

After installing the plugin, click the «Activate»‎ button.

After it is done go to the plugin settings and click the «Get Access Key Automatically» button. Then just click the «Save Settings»‎ button.

That’s it! From now your WordPress website and SureForms are protected from spam.

You can always use our detailed installation instructions.

How to check your SureForms spam protection in about 5 minutes

You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your SureForms by using a test email s @ cleantalk.org (without spaces). First, open the form in an Incognito browser tab. Fill in all the required form fields and send a form. After submitting the form, you will see a block message about the block on the form submission.

If you have any questions, add a comment and we will be happy to help you.

Create your Cleantalk account – Register now and enjoy your spam-free SureForms.

You may view a complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here. https://cleantalk.org/help/introduction

WordPress spam protection

July 31, 2025
Chatway Live Chat Spam Protection for WordPress
Struggling with spam flooding your Chatway Live Chat on WordPress? You’re not alone – it’s a common headache. The source of spam are only these two widgets and there is a plugin that protects both of them, and does it without using annoying CAPTCHAs.

The Anti-Spam by CleanTalk grants cloud protection from spam, is absolutely invisible to users and runs in background. Which might be pretty useful – 300,000+ active installations and 3,000+ reviews on WordPress can’t lie. It contains many features such as logging for your control, SpamFirewall, stop words and much more.

Step 1: Install the Anti-Spam plugin

CleanTalk is a powerful plugin that blocks spam silently in the background. It also has direct integration with Chatway Live Chat and here’s how to set it up:
1. Firstly, to install the Anti-Spam plugin, go to your WordPress admin panel → Plugins → Add New. You can also download it in the WordPress catalog.
2. Then enter «СleanTalk» in the search box and click the Install button for «Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk».
3. After installing the plugin, click the «Activate»‎ button.
4. After it is done go to the plugin settings and click the «Get Access Key Automatically» button.
5. Then go to Advanced settings in the right-bottom and find the “Protect external forms” and switch it on. It is needed to protect WhatsApp widget inside Chatway Live Chat from spam. Then just click the «Save Settings»‎ button.
From now Anti-Spam starts protecting all forms on your site including Chatway Live Chat without any extra setup.

Enjoy the result!

If you have any questions, add a comment and we will be happy to help you.
July 31, 2025
Our client’s review: CHECKLISTINSIDER.COM

We continue sharing our clients’ reviews and today’s one is kindly brought to you by AK from checklistinsider.com on WordPress.

Very useful plugin that helps you sit back and focus on other important tasks instead of dealing with those annoying spam user inputs from any and all the forms which are faced to public. So far I’m really happy with the performance of CleanTalk. It’s lightweight, performs its tasks perfectly well. Couldn’t expect anything more and don’t regret purchasing their anti-spam package.

Another thing is their support. Had one minor issue with the plugin. Just had to raise a ticket and received pretty fast (within 24 hours) response from their technical engineer Serge. His proposed solution worked like charm.

Hope to keep using it and never replace it for years to come.

July 28, 2025
OpenMage Spam Protection for Magento
Online stores are frequent targets for spam registrations, fake orders, and malicious bots. OpenMage spam attacks waste your time and server resources, skew analytics and business data, and increase security risks.

Good news for OpenMage owners! Anti-spam protection is finally available for OpenMage on Magento. Thanks to a contribution by our client ioweb-gr, you can easily integrate CleanTalk’s spam protection into your store right away.

What is CleanTalk Anti-Spam

CleanTalk Anti-Spam is a cloud-based invisible spam protection service trusted by over 1,000,000 websites. Whether you run a blog, a corporate site, or, especially, an eCommerce store,

CleanTalk Anti-Spam automatically screens all incoming submissions, registrations, and orders, blocking spam without using intrusive captchas or complicated workflows.

Install OpenMage spam protection

The integration for OpenMage spam protection is freely available here: download the OpenMage Integration.

Here’s a quick note from the developer about the built integration:
- Support for OpenMage versions with PHP ^8.1
- Implement client class for facilitating communications with the API that can use GET / POST (Form) | POST (JSON)
- Separate concerns in reusable classes for each endpoint
- Minor optimizations for properly fetching the key
- Add customer attribute to mark customers as legitimate or spam users for easier cleanup
- Add cron job to automate checking customers. Subject to change if better endpoint is found as it gives a lot of false positives.
Feel free to use the solution. Don’t leave spam a chance!
July 9, 2025
Our client’s review: LABTOPIAFARMS.COM

We continue sharing our clients’ reviews and today’s one is kindly brought to you by David from https://labtopiafarms.com on Trustpilot.

Awesome! It works!

I’ve used clean talk probably for about 15 years, used it on dozens of sites, and while running both antispam and the security modules the sites were being attacked constantly, but the Country level blocking snips that probing off before they can try to compromise the site. No more malicious registrations or submissions. The support has been consistent and excellent, a rarity indeed.

July 8, 2025
Floating Chat Widget (Chaty) Spam protection for WordPress in 5 minutes
Struggling with spam flooding your Chaty Floating Widget on WordPress? You’re not alone — it’s a common headache. The source of spam are only these two widgets and there is a plugin that protects both of them, and does it without using annoying CAPTCHAs.

The Anti-Spam by CleanTalk grants cloud protection from spam, is absolutely invisible to users and runs in background. Which might be pretty useful – 300,000+ active installations and 3,000+ reviews on WordPress can’t lie. It contains many features such as logging for your control, SpamFirewall, stop words and much more.

Step 1: Install the Anti-Spam plugin

CleanTalk is a powerful plugin that blocks spam silently in the background. It also has direct integration with Chaty Floating Chat and here’s how to set it up:
1. Firstly, to install the Anti-Spam plugin, go to your WordPress admin panel → Plugins → Add New. You can also download it in the WordPress catalog.
2. Then enter «СleanTalk» in the search box and click the Install button for «Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk».
3. After installing the plugin, click the «Activate»‎ button.
4. After it is done go to the plugin settings and click the «Get Access Key Automatically» button.
5. Then go to Advanced settings in the right-bottom and find the “Protect external forms” and switch it on. It is needed to protect WhatsApp widget inside Chaty from spam. Then just click the «Save Settings»‎ button.
From now Anti-Spam starts protecting all forms on your site including Chaty without any extra setup.

Step 2: Test Spam Protection of your forms

Use this simple test to confirm that CleanTalk is active:
- At first, open your form in an Incognito browser tab
- Use this test email: stop_email@example.com
- Submit the form
If the plugin is working, you’ll see a message that the submission was blocked. That means the Anti-Spam plugin now filters our your Chaty spam!

Important: You must test in Incognito because admins are not blocked by default.

Enjoy the result!

If you have any questions, add a comment and we will be happy to help you.
July 8, 2025