EDZNET Honeypot & Timing Guard

EDZNET Honeypot & Timing Guard protects Contact Form 7 forms from bot submissions using three complementary techniques:

Honeypot

A real text input is rendered off-screen (hidden via CSS positioning, not display:none). Bots that fill in visible form fields will often fill this one too, while human visitors never see it.

Timing Guard

A signed timestamp is injected into each form. Submissions arriving faster than the configured minimum time (default: 3 seconds) are rejected as bots. The timestamp is HMAC-signed with your site’s secret key, preventing tampering.

Gibberish Content Detection

The plugin analyses every submitted field (except internal and honeypot fields) for random-looking content — long character strings without spaces, words mixing letters and digits, or vowel-less letter sequences. Bots that fill forms with random noise are caught here.

When spam is detected, CF7 silently drops the mail and logs the reason to its spam log.

No configuration required — just install and activate.