This simple to Contact Form 7 plugin adds honeypot anti-spam functionality to thwart spambots without the need for ugly captcha..
This is how honeypot catches the bot — it introduces additional field in the form that if filled out will cause the form not to validate..
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The added field uses CSS styles to hide the field from your visitors...
For the more visually-minded, here is video showing how to install and use CF7 Honeypot from the fine folks at RoseApple Media.
The three filters available are wpcf7 honeypot accessibility message Adjusts the text for the accessibility message. wpcf7 honeypot container css Adjusts CSS that is applied to the container to keep it hidden from view. wpcf7 honeypot html output Adjusts HTML of the honeypot element...
Unfortunately the difficult CAPTCHA is to break, the more unfriendly it's to the user.
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Also, you'll note that you now have the ability to add CLASS and ID attributes when generating the Honeypot shortcode . 1.5.
Update to improve outputted HTML for better standards compliance when the same form appears multiple times on the same page. 1.2.
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