Antispam for WPForms

WPForms Support

coreSecurity Pro supports both WPForms Lite and WPForms Pro. Some aspects of the antispam protection will work only with WPForms Pro, because WPForms Lite doesn’t include many of the features available in WPForms Pro.

How the Antispam works with WPForms

Plugin hooks into the WPForms entry processing, and checks for spam entries only if the form has coreSecurity support enabled.

To get all the information about how the antispam works, which antispam methods are available, checkout the main Antispam article.

What happens with spam?

Every entry caught by the antispam filters will be saved as a spammed entry, only if you use WPForms Pro, because Lite version can’t save entries into database. In both cases, coreSecurity Pro, on spam detection will stop sending email notification with spam entry.

WPForms Lite and Pro Plugin Setup

For each form you want to be checked for spam by coreSecurity Antispam feature, you need to enable the coreSecurity support. To do that, open the WPForms form you want to edit, and when on edit screen, open the Settings panel, and under Spam Protection and Security, a new block called coreSecurity Antispam. It has a toggle to enable the support for coreSecurity Antispam support.

Once you enable antispam support, you will see additional options to select which fields to use for antispam filters, or you can disable some of the elements, or leave them to Auto, so that plugin can determine what it can use.

For most contact forms, plugin will be able to automatically detect relevant fields. But, for more complex contact forms, it can be useful to have the ability to select what Antispam should target.