There has been an increase of people that are attempting to market their wares thought the use of the contact form. It has become an increasing annoyance and a waste of resources of a website to deal with these issues. This stand-alone utility is also included in
BotBanish Version 6.0.00 which will also lock out the users from accessing the website (Full BotBanish Version Only).
This simple yet effective plugin for WordPress (other platforms will soon follow) will discourage the marketeers from targeting your website. There are now bots on the internet which seek out contact pages and automatically fill them with their marketing information. This is where
Contact Form Denial comes in. Once the utility is set to recognize the contact page (or any other form that sends emails via the WordPress system), will be scanned for items or phrases that have been selected that will determine if they are SPAM and log them to a file and not allow the email to be sent.
Contact Form Denial can handle multiple forms at once. All that is needed is to put the
Contact Form Denial plugin into Learning mode and then send an email as an administrator from the form that is to be protected. The utility will gather the subject name of the form so that it will recognize it in the future for checking.
The administrator will have near complete control over what this utility will look for to determine if an email is SPAM.
Basic Installation Instructions:1 - Upload the plugin and activate.
2 - Find the menu selection
"Contact Form Denial". Click on it to see the settings.
3 - Check the checkbox for
"Contact Form Learning Active"4 - Click the
"Save Changes" button.
5 - Right click on
"Visit Site" and then select to open in a new tab, which is located in the top menu where the name of your site is. This will open the website as an administrator.
6 - Navigate to the contact form. Fill out the form and submit it.
7 - Go back to the original tab and click the
browser refresh button. The
"Subject" area will populate with the contact form's subject and the
"Contact Form Learning Active" will be unchecked.
8 - Remove the original "Contact," (first time only) or other form names from the Subject then click
"Save Changes".
This form's email will now be monitored to discourage submitter and remove unwanted emails from the contact form submission. More than one form can be monitored by repeating this process for each form. The Subject line will have the names of any form (comma separated) that the plugin is to monitor.
Items can be added or removed from the
"Eliminate" and
"Forbidden" areas to achieve the level of protection that is needed. Logs of rejected emails are kept in the plugin's directory in the logs folder.
The abuser will just get a message that there was an error when submitting the contact form that was rejected. This error message will be generated by the contact form that the website uses.
Contact Form Denial is now officially part of BotBanish as of 1/30/2025.