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How to Stop Spam in Contact Form 7: Best Protection Methods in 2026

Contact Form 7 remains one of the most widely used contact form plugins in the WordPress ecosystem, with more than 10 million active installations listed in the official WordPress plugin directory. It has stayed popular for years because it gives site owners a practical, lightweight, and flexible way to add contact forms without switching to
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WP CLI support in Security by CleanTalk (WordPress plugin)
We’ve added to Security by CleanTalk support of WP CLI commands. The list of commands, Full guide with examples is here https://cleantalk.org/help/security-wp-cli It works on plugins starting version 2.156 which has been released on May 19, 2025. Have questions? Please drop us a message in the comment form down below.
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Anti-spam protection for WS Form Lite has been released!
We have protected one more contact form for WordPress, this is WP Forms lite, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk (plugin) protects all kinds of submissions posted through this form against spambots and spam posted by real visitors (with some rate of false/negatives). Anyway, to set up the protection follow steps, *** Forbidden. Sender blacklisted. Anti-Spam by CleanTalk.…
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Say Hi to Evgenii — The New Guy on the Block!
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Please welcome Evgenii, our new team member! Evgenii is an experienced software developer in web applications field and ready to rock nuts for cleantalk.org. Here are a few words Evgenii could say about himself and the very first days in the company, Over the past few years, I’ve been interested in gaining experience as a…
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5 Best Free WordPress Forms Plugins Protected by CleanTalk Anti-Spam
How many free WordPress forms are there in the catalog? Free WordPress forms are not always 100% free, actually. WordPress catalog has hundreds of form plugins, though. We’ve collected top contact form plugins that are totally free or have a free version, not limited by time period. All of the forms are absolutely compatible with…



