Good news, everyone!
Now you can buy our merch on Amazon. The water bottle with multiple lids is already available to order. So, be sure to protect your website from spam and drink at least 1.5 liters of water a day 😏
By the way, what other merch would you like to see? Let us know in the comments.
CleanTalk added spam protection for VS Contact Form using direct form integration. So in case, you prefer using VS Contact Form be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. Read the guide below and learn 4 steps to protect your VS Contact Form from spam.
Once the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your WordPress website. It may not only be VS Contact Form but also many others.
Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download VS Contact Form
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 СonvertKit Forms from spam.
You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your СonvertKit 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 protect your СonvertKit Forms from spam in 5 minutes
The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.
Discover the complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here.
CleanTalk added spam protection for Strong Testimonials Forms using direct form integration. So in case, you prefer using Strong Testimonials Forms be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. Read the guide below and learn 4 steps to protect your Strong Testimonials Forms from spam.
Once the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your WordPress website. It may not only be Strong Testimonials Forms but also many others.
Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download Strong Testimonials Forms
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 Strong Testimonials Forms from spam.
You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your Strong Testimonials 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 protect your СonvertKit Forms from spam in 5 minutes
The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.
Discover the complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here.
The CleanTalk company informs you, our clients, that starting on December 12, 2022, we will stop providing and supporting the Anti-Spam service for Shopify.
The CleanTalk Anti-Spam service for Shopify was launched for testing the anti-spam protection features for free. To our regret we can not provide our full protection because of technical limitations.
The Shopify system limits app developers and there are no tools to use our own JavaScript code as well as no access to receive other technical parameters of websites. This is the reason why our service can not collect necessary parameters for the full protection from spam so the CleanTalk service works only partially and for now it’s impossible to implement the anti-spam protection for some website forms.
On December 12, 2022 our Anti-Spam plugin for Shopify will stop functioning, therefore we recommend deleting it and installing another app.
We hope for your understanding and if situation changes then we will come back to developing and supporting our fully functional protection from spam for Shopify.
We appreciate that you were with us and trusted us to protect your websites!
If you have any questions, please send us a ticket.
CleanTalk added spam protection for Calculated Fields Forms using direct form integration. So in case, you prefer using Calculated Fields Forms be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. Read the guide below and learn 4 steps to protect your Calculated Fields Forms from spam.
Once the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your WordPress website. It may not only be Calculated Fields Forms but also many others.
Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download Calculated Fields Forms
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 СonvertKit Forms from spam.
You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your СonvertKit 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 protect your СonvertKit Forms from spam in 5 minutes
The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.
Discover the complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here.
CleanTalk added spam protection for Sendinblue Forms using direct form integration. So in case, you prefer using Sendinblue Forms be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. Read the guide below and learn 4 steps to protect your Sendinblue Forms from spam.
Once the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your WordPress website. It may not only be Sendinblue Forms but also many others.
Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download Sendinblue Forms
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 СonvertKit Forms from spam.
You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your СonvertKit 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 protect your СonvertKit Forms from spam in 5 minutes
The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.
Looks like some time ago Sendinblue Forms re-branded to Brevo. Here are addtitional instructions how to protect Brevo forms against spam https://help.brevo.com/hc/en-us/articles/19591451188114-Protect-your-forms-from-bots-and-spam-signups
Website Security plugin now automatically scans your WordPress files and folders for unsafe permissions and recommends how to change them if necessary.
WordPress file permissions protect your site’s files and directories from unauthorized access by hackers. Securing the proper permissions adds security to your site and makes it less vulnerable.
There are 3 types of file permissions in WordPress: read, write, and execute and are denoted in 2 ways. One of them is numerical.
| Permission | What it means | Denotion | |
| Read | User can view the contents of a file or directory, but not change anything | 4 | |
| Write | User allowed to modify the contents of a file or directory, but not execute it | 2 | |
| Execute | User allowed to run script files, or run scripts inside a directory | 1 | |
| No permission | User has no access to the file or directory | 0 |
Also, there are 3 categories of roles: user owner (single account), group owner (a set of users), and world (every other user). So, in the numeric schema, the permission number is a sum of all available permissions for each role. And here are 4 examples of how a file or folder permission is recognized by WordPress:
| User | Group | World | |||||||
| 777 | Read | Write | Execute | Read | Write | Execute | Read | Write | Execute |
| 644 | Read | Write | – | Read | – | – | Read | – | – |
| 755 | Read | Write | Execute | Read | – | Execute | Read | – | Execute |
| 440 | Read | – | – | Read | – | – | – | – | – |
While 000 or 440 seem to be the safest file permissions, they are impractical. And as you can see 777 is very dangerous as it leaves the file or directory open to modification by any user.
The Website Security plugin automatically scans your website every 24 hours and checks all the permissions of the files and folders. Here is a list of all the files the plugin checks.
/.htaccess
/index.php
/wp-config.php
/wp-admin
/wp-includes
/wp-content
/wp-content/themes
/wp-content/plugins
/wp-content/uploads
You can see the results of your last scan on the main page of the plugin: go to Settings → Security by CleanTalk in your side menu. When you enter this page, a scan is immediately started to give you the most up-to-date information about your site’s security.
If there are some unsafe permissions you will see the message:
Permissions for files and directories from the list are unsafe. We recommend change it to 755 for each file and 644 for each directory from the list.
In that case, follow the instructions in the message. It is always recommended 755 for files and 644 for directories.
The Linux permissions for all files in your WordPress base directory should be set to readable and writable by the owning user (you), and readable only by everyone else. This creates a baseline where the web server can read all files. It will need read access in order to serve static content like images, CSS and Javascript files. Unlike the method above we will be adjusting script permissions to be more stringent later on.
find </path/to/wordpress> -type f \-exec chmod 644 {} \;If possible, the permissions for all files should be set to read and writable to your user, readable by the group, and no permissions for others. In some instances this may cause issues with other software or plugins, but it is possible to restrict these permissions in some instances.
Lockdown permissions for all PHP scripts so that only your user can read them. This is ideal because only your user should need to know the contents of scripts.
find </path/to/wordpress> -type f -name "*.php" \-exec chmod 640 {} \;Also, feel free to use Security by CleanTalk plugin to check wp-content automatically on a daily basis.
CleanTalk added spam protection for Easy Digital Downloads Forms using direct form integration. So in case, you prefer using Easy Digital Downloads Forms be sure to use the most effective Anti-Spam plugin. Read the guide below and learn 4 steps to protect your Easy Digital Downloads Forms from spam.
Once the CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin is installed it starts to protect all of the existing forms on your WordPress website. It may not only be Easy Digital Downloads forms but also many others.
Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin | Download Easy Digital Downloads
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 СonvertKit Forms from spam.
You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your СonvertKit 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 protect your СonvertKit Forms from spam in 5 minutes
The protection works only for website visitors, not for website admins. Be sure to test the form protection using Incognito mode.
Discover the complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here.
Some people do daily reports to account for their time at work, some are proud to share their progress, and for some, it’s nothing more than an obligation. The reasons may vary, but the important thing is that it should work for you.
For us at СleanTalk daily reports are a full-fledged communication channel, so each employee sends their daily report with the current day’s results and the next day’s plans to the whole team at once (we use Gmail + Google Groups for this). Yes, each employee gets about 20 report emails at the end of the day but it really helps to save time. Let us share with you how it works.
There’s nothing worse than wasting time on a report that isn’t useful. In a normal “vertical” reporting system, you and your colleagues end the work day by sending reports and plans for the next day to your team leader, and it’s nice if they have enough time to read and make sense of them. Also, it will be a great success if they are able to give feedback on them. With this system, the synchronization of the team members’ work lays entirely on the team leader’s shoulders who further distributes and monitors the tasks.
With a horizontal reporting system (like ours), all reports end up in the same mailing list group in Google Groups. When employees work on the same product, they often know the details better than their team leader, that is what exact task should be paid the most attention to and whose attention should be prioritized higher based on their previous experience.
For example, when one team has to start doing a new part of the project, and the other team has not yet finished the required previous part. In this case, it will become visible in the reports and the workflow can be adjusted. That is, some of the issues can be solved at the planning stage before the actual implementation.
If an error in the workflow could not be avoided, the earlier it is detected the less time it will take to fix it. For example, a backend developer can notice a possible error in the work of a frontend developer in advance and notify them. That will help in fixing the mistake quickly and time will be saved.
In our team, on average, at least one dialog appears out of 20 reports, this happens almost every day. Part of our time is saved because the employee is not waiting for a scheduled online meeting to discuss a particular issue. Such reports are great for non-urgent tasks scheduled for the current day. However, if the task is urgent and needs to be solved quicker, an audio or video conference is more effective.
You can always examine the history of reports on a particular task and evaluate what went wrong and what could have been done differently. Sometimes this may seem like a waste of time, but it helps to avoid such mistakes and save time in the future.
When we say your report is seen by the whole team, it literally is without exclusions. This applies primarily to team leaders and CEOs. It’s always essential for employees to know what the company founder or their top manager is contributing to the product. Such a team leader will always earn more respect from their colleagues. Besides, when everyone sees each other’s contribution it is very important for team building and a cohesive team will probably show better results in the same amount of time than any other team.
We hope this article helps start-up companies in saving valuable time. We were a small company once, we invented and tested various approaches to organizing reports and competent time management. Some of the techniques didn’t work for us, but we’ve been practicing this approach to organizing reports for a long time and are happy that it helps our employees save more time for their families and hobbies.
Have a look at our experience how to organize task among team by using SCRUM techniques in Basecamp 2.
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Great solution that does what it promises
I tried many solutions, from honeypots to reCaptcha, but none of them worked. With Cleantalk my spam messages dropped to zero overnight. The other week I was hit by a spam attack. Cleantalk blocked over 100.000 spam messages, and I didn’t even notice until my weekly summary email came in a few days later.
In short, an excellent solution that I’ve been recommending to everyone with a contact form.
