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    • 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 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 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

    • 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 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 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Introducing: CleanTalk Pixel

      Introducing: CleanTalk Pixel

      Our mission is to protect your website from spam. In order to do so we need to firstly identificate visitor’s IP address. But detecting IP address sometimes may go wrong because it may be substituted by some bots. So we decided to exclude the probability of false triggering and here comes the CleanTalk Pixel that improves your website spam protection.

      What is CleanTalk Pixel and how does it improve your site spam protection

      It is an «invisible» 1×1px image that Anti-Spam plugin integrates to your WordPress website. And when someone visits your website the Pixel is triggered and reports this visit and some other data including true IP address.

      This Pixel is not located on some server but is created in HTML every time you load your website page. This exactly helps our system to get the most true IP address and not be confused by CDN or plugins caching site requests. And that’s exactly how CleanTalk Pixel improves your website spam protection.

      How to connect Pixel to your website

      Step 1: Go to Plugins → Installed Plugins.

      Then go to Settings link next to CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin.

      Step 2: Click on «Advanced settings» button at the bottom of the screen. More setting will appear.

      Then find Add a CleanTalk Pixel… field in Data Processing section.

      Step 3: Choose, how exactly Pixel will act:

      • Via direct output – insert Pixel code into HTML from the backend.
      • Via Javascript – insert Pixel code into HTML from the frontend.
      • Auto – insert Pixel code into HTML from the backend if pixel detects a caching plugin (Recommended).
      • Off – Pixel if disabled.

      After that just press the Save Changes button.

      Done! It really is that simple.

      If you have any questions, add a comment and we will be happy to help you.
      Create your Cleantalk account – Register now

      You can see a complete list of CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin features here.

      WordPress spam protection

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

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

      After you created your contact form using Caldera Forms you actually may get spam. CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin protects your Caldera 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 Caldera 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 just click the «Save Settings»‎ button.

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

      You can always use our detailed installation instructions.

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

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

      You can test the work of Anti-Spam protection for your Caldera 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 Caldera 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 hide Website URL Field From WordPress Comment Form

      How to hide Website URL Field From WordPress Comment Form

      How many useful website URL’s did you get through comments on your website lately? Not too many, we believe. But it really is a good way for spammers to send spam websites using this form. This «Website URL» field is frequently used by spammers to place spam links in it. CleanTalk helps you protect your WordPress website comments by hiding this field off.

      So we improved CleanTalk’s integration to Comments and from now you can just remove «Website URL» field from all of the comment forms on your website. This feature is disabled by default, but it will take less than a minute to enable it using your WordPress dashboard. This option does not completely remove the field but hides it on the page.

      At the moment this feature works only with default WordPress Comments. So if your comments form is made with another plugin it will not be able to hide it’s «Website» field for now. If you use another comments plugin and still need to remove «Website URL» field – just let us know in the comments below.

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

      Step 1: Go to Plugins → Installed Plugins.

      Then go to Settings link next to CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin.

      Step 2: Click on «Advanced settings» button at the bottom of the screen. More setting will appear.

      Then find Hide the «Website» field in Comments and Messanges section.

      Step 3: Just switch it to «On» and press the «Save changes» button.

      Done! It really is that simple.

      Now just go to your WordPress site page and see the difference while CleanTalk helps you completely protecting your WordPress website comments

      If you have any questions, add a comment and we will be happy to help you.
      Create your Cleantalk account – Register now

      Additional features

      • CleanTalk protects not only comments, but also registrations, feedbacks, contacts and reviews.
      • Installation takes about 1-2 minutes.
      • Smart 100% protection against spambots.
      • Always online – 24/7 technical support & free mobile app.
      • 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

    • Access key rotation for Anti-Spam and Security

      Access key rotation for Anti-Spam and Security

      In case your website is connected to CleanTalk it uses a special Access key to exchange information. We have improved its functionality to guarantee you the safest user experience.

      Connect your website to CleanTalk in 5 minutes and forget about spam.

      Improved Access key safety

      Your Anti-Spam and Security Access keys don’t have any expiration date. So don’t worry, you don’t have to do anything about it.

      Access key doesn’t need to be manually renewed except several cases:

      • In case you gave your website access to web developer or a freelancer and it may be compromised.
      • When your website had been hacked.
      • When you expect your CleanTalk access being given or copied to a third party.
      • In case you have any other issues and risks with CleanTalk account access.

      Also you can always change your password or email in CleanTalk dashboard.

      How to update your Access key

      Step 1: Add your website to dashboard using the button below. If your site is already connected to CleanTalk pass to Step 3.

      Step 2: Input your website URL in “Site URL” field.

      Step 3: Click on “Settings” button under your website name.

      Step 4: Go to “Change the Access key”.

      Step 5: Click on “Generate key” to create new safe Access key.

      Step 6: Then Apply the key by pressing the button below.

      Step 7: And just close the window after you are finished.

      Well done! Your new Access key is successfully generated and applied to your website. From now it will be active and if needed, you may change it again to guarantee its safety.

    • New feature: Settings and Personal lists templates for Anti-Spam and Security

      New feature: Settings and Personal lists templates for Anti-Spam and Security

      For our clients with more than one website used by Anti-Spam and Security protection we created Templates to save your website settings and personal lists – you can find it in your «Tools» menu. Using Templates you can easily copy any quantity of personal lists and filters, that you have already created for one of your websites, connected to your CleanTalk account.

      How to connect your website to CleanTalk

      In order to connect your website to CleanTalk just register via register link and follow the instructions from email. It may take you about 5 minutes to fully protect your website from spam.

      How to use Templates

      Step 1: If you want to use personal lists template, create at least one list. For more details about adding and working with personal lists use our guide. Website settings for templates are always created automatically when the site is connected to CleanTalk.

      Step 2: After that go to «Tools» → «Templates» and press «Add template» button.

      In the dialog window name your Template and select a website that has at least one personal list using «Copy settings from site» field.

      Use «Set as default» checkbox to automatically add personal lists to all the new websites you connect to your CleanTalk account and «Copy personal list from…» checkbox to add personal lists from selected site to this template. If the checkbox is not marked, the template will only copy website settings.

      Step 3: Apply Settings and Personal lists template to your new website. In order to apply the template to any site use «Apply» link under the template that you wish to use.

      After that just use «Apply to services» field in order to select website that you wish to use this template with.

      That’s it! Feel free to use as many templates as needed to save time while protecting your websites from spam and security issues.

      If you’re looking from where to start – create your first template.

      In case you got any problems while using CleanTalk you can always open a private ticket.