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Formidable Forms Spam Protection in 2026
If you use Formidable Forms on a WordPress website, spam will eventually become a real issue. It usually starts with a few junk submissions in a contact form, quote request form, survey, quiz, or registration form. Then it turns into fake leads, bot traffic, meaningless messages, and wasted admin time. That is not a Formidable-specific
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Reducing Disk Load in High-Traffic PHP Applications: Switching from SQLite to Redis for Anti-Crawler Storage
Automated crawlers and scraping bots are a growing problem for modern websites. While search engine bots are useful, many other crawlers generate excessive traffic, scrape content, or overload servers. To help website owners control this type of traffic, we recently released the Anti-Crawler PHP Library by CleanTalk, an open-source tool designed to detect and limit…
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How Much Server Resources Spam Bots Waste
When you look at your hosting invoice, you see CPU, RAM, disk and traffic.What you don’t see is the hidden line: How much of this is spent on spam bots instead of real users. Today a big part of web traffic is no longer human. Bad bots: For your server, each of these bots looks…
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Forminator Forms – Spam Protection Guide in 2026
If you use Forminator Forms, you may occasionally experience spam submissions. In the guide below, you’ll learn about several tools that help achieve complete spam protection for Forminator. In this post we will look at as built-in (in the plugin core) anti-spam tools like Honeypot, Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile. As well as, spam protection…
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GiveWP – Spam Protection guide in 2026. Stop spam donations!
CleanTalk has added spam protection for GiveWP using direct form integration. This makes it a good opportunity to explore how to protect GiveWP against spam submissions using both built-in anti-spam tools integrated into the plugin core and third-party solutions. We will start with CleanTalk and then move on to Akismet, Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, honeypot…
