Author: Anthony M

  • The story of our client: drinkertoys.com

    The story of our client: drinkertoys.com

    We’re sure you already know most of the advantages of our Anti-Spam and Security services. But it is always easier to understand the way it works by certain examples. So we decided to ask some of our clients to share their experience of using CleanTalk products.

    Our client’s name is David. He is an inventor, a founder, a creator, and the owner of drinkertoys.com website among others. This company makes very useful unsinkable beverage holders for a swimming pool or a lake.

    And here goes the story from David

     

    I had 5 sites and at some point one of them became compromised with WP-VCD malware. It installed spam servers on every directory and infected every site with this resilient malware that can respawn.

    Another security solution I used before only handled one site at a cost about 10 times more expensive. It isn’t configurable or able to be monitored for manual remediation.

    I went back to CleanTalk security on all the sites and after a couple passes had ALL of my sites cleaned up.

    Unlike another services, CleanTalk let me select entire regions and countries to BLOCK with blacklist and let me see where the hack/intrusion attempts were coming from.

    The cost of the 5 site license has WAY MORE than PAID for itself in saving server bandwidth, site load speed (by blocking the intrustion before it floods the server slowing my site) and my time to remediate it manually which was difficult due to the hundreds of places it had put it’s malware.

    I would recommend it for these reasons and on top of that, the SUPPORT is IMMEDIATELY responsive. My requests were filled and enhancements to the PRODUCT were coded to things specific to my installations. They are great! GET THE ANTISPAM running also.

    We appreciate that kind of feedback and wish David all the best in his business.
    You are welcome to share your reviews at WordPress.org or Trustpilot.com (don’t forget to send us the link via welcome @ cleantalk.org)

  • The most effective anti-spam plugin for your Elfsight Form

    The most effective anti-spam plugin for your Elfsight Form

    After you created your Elfsight Contact Form you may get spam through this form. CleanTalk is the most effective anti-spam plugin for your Elfsight Contact Form: it protects your forms from spam and save your visitors time.

    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 Elfsight Contact Forms but many others.

    Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download Elfsight Contact Form 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, click the «Get Access Key Automatically» button. Then click the «Save Settings»‎ button.

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

    You can always use our detailed installation instructions.

    How to check that CleanTalk already protects your Elfsight Contact Forms from spam

    You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your Elfsight Contact 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 while CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin protects your Elfsight Contact Forms from spam.

    Update

    The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.

    Why is CleanTalk the most effective anti-spam plugin for your Elfsight Contact Form

    • CleanTalk protects all forms at once: comments, registrations, feedbacks, contacts, reviews.
    • Installation takes about 1-2 minutes.
    • Smart 100% protection against spambots.
    • Always online – 24/7 technical support.
    • Logs, personal lists, country filters, stop-words and many another.

    A complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features can be viewed here.

    WordPress spam protection

  • 4 steps for a complete HappyForms spam protection

    4 steps for a complete HappyForms spam protection

    After you created your HappyForms Contact Form you may get spam through this form. CleanTalk protects your HappyForms Contact Form from spam and saves your visitors time.

    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 HappyForms but many others.

    Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download HappyForms Contact Form 

    How to install CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

    To install the Anti-Spam plugin, go to your WordPress admin panelPluginsAdd 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 HappyForms Contact Forms are protected from spam.

    You can always use our detailed installation instructions.

    How to check that CleanTalk already protects your HappyForms Contact Forms from spam

    You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your HappyForms Contact 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 while CleanTalk protects your HappyForms Contact Form from spam.

    Update

    The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.

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

    WordPress spam protection

  • Anti-spam protection for your standard WordPress comments in 5 minutes

    Anti-spam protection for your standard WordPress comments in 5 minutes

    If you have any Standard WordPress Comments Forms in your website some bots may use it to send spam messages and links. CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin protects your Standard WordPress Comments Form from spam.

    Once CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your WordPress website.

    You can always use our detailed installation instructions.

    How to install CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

    To install the Anti-Spam plugin, go to your WordPress admin panelPluginsAdd 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 website and Standard WordPress Comments Forms are protected from spam.

    You can always use our detailed installation instructions.

    Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

    How to check that CleanTalk already protects your Standard WordPress Comments Form from spam

    After that, you can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your Standard WordPress comments 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.

    How to hide «Website» field to protect your WordPress site comments

    Different bots and spammers use Website field in your comments forms to send spam URLs. CleanTalk has a special option for standard WordPress Comments Form. So this option hides this field from all of the comments forms on your website.

    Follow our guide to hide this field to improve your website’s anti-spam security.

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

    Create your Cleantalk account – Register now. Enjoy while the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin protects your Standard WordPress Comments Forms from spam.

    Update

    The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.

    Additional features

    • CleanTalk protects all forms at once: comments, registrations, feedbacks, contacts, reviews.
    • Installation takes about 1-2 minutes.
    • Smart 100% protection against spambots.
    • Always online – 24/7 technical support.
    • Logs, personal lists, country filters, stop-words and many another.

    A complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features can be viewed here.

    WordPress spam protection

  • CleanTalk Anti-Spam protects your WebDorado forms from spam

    CleanTalk Anti-Spam protects your WebDorado forms from spam

    After you created your WebDorado Forms you may get spam through this form. CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin protects your WebDorado contact forms from spam and save your visitors time.

    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 WebDorado Forms but many others.

    Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download WebDorado Contact Form 

    How to install CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

    To install the Anti-Spam plugin, go to your WordPress admin panelPluginsAdd 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 WebDorado contact forms are protected from spam.

    You can always use our detailed installation instructions.

    Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download WebDorado Contact Form 

    How to check that CleanTalk already protects your WebDorado Contact Forms from spam

    You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your WebDorado contact 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 while CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin protects your WebDorado contact forms from spam.

    Update

    The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.

    You may view a complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here.

    WordPress spam protection

  • Hiding your WordPress username from bad bots

    Hiding your WordPress username from bad bots

    Do you know how to hide your WordPress usernames from bad bots? We are glad to introduce you a new Security plugin improvement: from now CleanTalk allows you to hide WordPress username from bad bots brute-force.

    Before this improvement became available some bots could learn WordPress usernames by their ID and use it to brute-force these accounts later. For example, a request like «‎https://blog.cleantalk.org/?author=007»‎ could return the username «https://blog.cleantalk.org/author/james_bond».

    This option is switched off by default so in order to avoid vulnerabilities like that we highly recommend to switch it on.

    Step 1: Go to PluginsInstalled Plugins.

    Step 2: Go to Settings beneath the Security plugin.

    And after that choose General Settings.

    Step 3: Go to Miscellaneous section and find checkbox ‎«‎Prevent collecting of authors logins» and just check this box.

    Step 4: Press the «Save Changes» button.

    Success! That’s how quickly CleanTalk allows you to hide WordPress username from bad bots

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

    Create your Cleantalk account – Register now and enjoy while CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin protects your Clean and Simple Contact Forms from spam.

  • How to protect your Clean and Simple Forms using CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

    How to protect your Clean and Simple Forms using CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

    After you created your Clean and Simple Contact Form you may get spam through this form. CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin protects your Clean and Simple Contact Forms from spam and save your visitors time.

    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 Clean and Simple Contact Forms but many others.

    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, click the «Get Access Key Automatically» button. Then click the «Save Settings»‎ button.

    That’s it! From now your WordPress website and Clean and Simple Contact Forms are protected from spam.

    You can always use our detailed installation instructions.

    Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download Contact Form by Clean and Simple Contact Forms 

    How to check that CleanTalk already protects your Clean and Simple Contact Forms from spam

    You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your Clean and Simple Contact 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 while CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin protects your Clean and Simple Contact Forms from spam.

    Update

    The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.

    Additional features

    • CleanTalk protects all forms at once: comments, registrations, feedbacks, contacts, reviews.
    • Installation takes about 1-2 minutes.
    • Smart 100% protection against spambots.
    • Always online – 24/7 technical support.
    • Logs, personal lists, country filters, stop-words and many another.

    A complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features can be viewed here. https://cleantalk.org/help/introduction 

    WordPress spam protection

  • How to protect your Jetpack forms using CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

    How to protect your Jetpack forms using CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

    After you created your contact form using Jetpack Forms you may get spam through comments and contact forms. Jetpack has an integrated system of manual moderation of 100% comments, but if you want to save your own time we have a smart solution for your site. CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin protects all of your Jetpack forms from spam.

    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 Jetpack contact forms but many others.

    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, click the «Get Access Key Automatically» button. Then click the «Save Settings»‎ button.

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

    You can always use our detailed installation instructions.

    Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download Contact Form by Jetpack Forms 

    How to check that CleanTalk already protects your Jetpack forms from spam

    You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your Jetpack contact and comments form 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 while CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin protects all of your Jetpack forms from spam.

    Update

    The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.

    Additional features

    • CleanTalk protects all forms at once: comments, registrations, feedbacks, contacts, reviews.
    • Installation takes about 1-2 minutes.
    • Smart 100% protection against spambots.
    • Always online – 24/7 technical support.
    • Logs, personal lists, country filters, stop-words and many another.

    A complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features can be viewed here. https://cleantalk.org/help/introduction 

    WordPress spam protection

  • Hiding PHP Notices and Warnings in WordPress

    Hiding PHP Notices and Warnings in WordPress

    Sometimes you can see some PHP notices and warnings on your WordPress page. So we created this post to help hiding PHP Notices and Warnings in WordPress

    Most of them don’t worth your attention. But if you are the plugin or theme developer then you should know about this so that you may fix them in next release. And some of this warnings and notices are sent to you just because the developer has to keep WordPress and PHP older versions compatible.

    The easiest way of hiding PHP Notices and Warnings in WordPress

    Just go to your wp-config.php file and set WP_DEBUG to false. This will not cause any changes to your website.

    But sometimes this solution may not do the thing. Mostly this happens when you use shared cheap shared hosts. Usually hosts like this force various PHP notices and warnings. So if previous solution doesn’t work you may replace it with the next linen your wp-config.php file.

    define('WP_DEBUG', false);

    with this lines:

    ini_set('display_errors','Off');
    ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL );
    define('WP_DEBUG', false);
    define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);

    Great! We hope this tips will be useful for you!

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  • How to protect your Gravity forms using CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

    How to protect your Gravity forms using CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin

    After you created your contact form using Gravity Forms you actually may get spam. CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin protects your Gravity contact forms from spam.

    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 Gravity contact forms but many others.

    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, click the «Get Access Key Automatically» button. Then click the «Save Settings»‎ button.

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

    You can always use our detailed installation instructions.

    Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download Contact Form by Gravity Forms 

    How to check that CleanTalk already protects your Gravity contact forms from spam

    You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your Gravity contact form 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 while CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin protects your Gravity contact forms from spam.

    Update

    The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.

    Additional features

    • CleanTalk protects all forms at once: comments, registrations, feedbacks, contacts, reviews.
    • Installation takes about 1-2 minutes.
    • Smart 100% protection against spambots.
    • Always online – 24/7 technical support.
    • Logs, personal lists, country filters, stop-words and many another.

    A complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features can be viewed here. https://cleantalk.org/help/introduction 

    WordPress spam protection