Form Guardian for Contact Form 7

Protect Contact Form 7 from spam with IP blocking, duplicate submission protection, URL spam detection, rate limiting, keyword filtering, and activity logs—no CAPTCHA required.

Features include:

• Honeypot protection against spambots
• IP rate limiting to prevent repeated submissions
• Manual IP address blocking
• Duplicate submission detection with configurable time window
• URL spam detection with configurable maximum URL limit
• Block suspicious keywords
• Block disposable email domains
• Submission activity logs
• Dashboard with spam statistics
• Automatic IP blocking after reaching the configured limit
• Simple admin settings page
• Lightweight and optimized for performance
• Built specifically for Contact Form 7
• WordPress Coding Standards compliant

Why Form Guardian?

Many spam protection plugins rely on CAPTCHAs that interrupt legitimate visitors.

Form Guardian works silently in the background by combining multiple protection techniques including honeypot detection, IP rate limiting, duplicate submission prevention, disposable email blocking, keyword filtering, and URL detection.

The result is fewer spam submissions while maintaining a smooth experience for genuine visitors.

Perfect For

• Business websites
• Company contact forms
• Freelancers
• Agencies
• WooCommerce stores
• Blogs
• Portfolio websites
• Membership sites

Support

Need help?

Create a support topic in the WordPress.org support forum.

Bug reports and feature requests are welcome.