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Spam Protection: Form CAPTCHA and Anti-Spam

WPForms offers robust spam protection for WordPress forms. Our advanced CAPTCHA and intelligent defenses ensure your forms remain spam-free.

Stop Form Spam in Its Tracks with WPForms Spam Protection

With WPForms, protecting your forms from spam is simple and effective. Join over 5,000,000 users who agree. Get started with WPForms today!

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Custom CAPTCHA

Set your own custom questions or math problems as a CAPTCHA

Google reCAPTCHA

Google reCAPTCHA

Use Google’s free spam protection service, which is easy for users and tough on spambots.

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hCAPTCHA

Protect your forms from spam entries while keeping user privacy a priority.

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Akismet

Use Akismet’s smart algorithms to stop spam form entries from being saved.

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Cloudflare Turnstile

Use this free, user-friendly CAPTCHA alternative to confirm users are human automatically.

Country & Keyword Filtering

Set spam filters to block entries from certain countries or submissions containing specific words.

Store & Review Spam Entries

Optionally save form submissions marked as spam in the database so you can review them to check for false positives.

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Good options and easy to implement, free version also has enough features to make basic forms

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Protect Your Forms With Ease

Say goodbye to spam and protect your forms with WPForms’ advanced spam protection features. Our comprehensive suite of tools ensures that your forms stay secure, efficient, and spam-free.

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Experience Unmatched Security

WPForms spam protection provides the ultimate defense against spam:

  • Seamless Integration: Connect your forms with Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, or Cloudflare Turnstile in minutes.
  • Automatic Defense: WPForms’ built-in anti-spam token works without user action and is activated by default.
  • Easy Setup: No need for code embeds or complex configuration. Just activate the anti-spam options of your choice and your forms are protected.

Multiple Layers of Protection

WPForms provides multiple methods to secure your forms, giving you peace of mind:

  • Choice of CAPTCHA: Use a third-party captcha service to suit your needs.
  • Custom CAPTCHA: Tailor questions to your audience or set a random math question.
  • Spam Filters: Add country and keyword filters or set an email or IP blocklist to deny high-risk submissions completely.
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Add Spam Protection to Any Form With 2,100+ Ready-Made Templates

  • Review Form
  • Waiver Form
  • Screening Form
  • Issue Form
  • Disciplinary Form
  • Petition Form
  • Monitoring Form
  • Vendor Form
  • Expense Form
  • Agreement Form
  • Training Form
  • Completion Form
  • Request Form
  • Medical Form
  • Evaluation Form
  • RMA Form

Spam Protection – Frequently Asked Questions

Do you have a question about WPForms Spam Protection? See the list below for our most frequently asked questions. If your question is not listed here, then please contact us.

How does WPForms protect my forms from spam?

WPForms offers multiple layers of spam protection, including a built-in anti-spam token, Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile, and a Custom CAPTCHA addon. You can also filter countries, keywords, and block emails or IPs from submitting your forms entirely.

Can I customize the CAPTCHA challenges?

Yes, with WPForms Custom CAPTCHA, you can create custom questions or math problems to suit your audience.

Is it easy to set up Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, or Cloudflare Turnstile?

Absolutely. WPForms makes it simple to integrate Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, and Cloudflare Turnstile with your forms in just a few clicks.

Even More Powerful Features

WPForms is packed with a range of features and addons that seamlessly integrate with each other to create incredible forms.

Geolocation Data

Learn more about your users with geolocation data.

  • Collect and store geolocation data from form submissions.
  • Personalize responses based on user location.
  • Analyze geographic trends in form entries.

User Journey Addon

Discover the steps visitors take before they submit your forms.

  • Track user interactions and form submissions.
  • Analyze user behavior to improve form design.
  • Gain insights into the form submission process.

Form Abandonment

Capture partial entries from forms to capture lost leads.

  • Capture data from unsubmitted forms.
  • Recover lost leads and improve conversion rates.
  • Get insights on why users abandon forms.
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New Feature

WPForms Dashboard

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The WPForms Dashboard is a new home screen that opens the moment you click WPForms in your admin menu. Stat cards across the top total up your forms, entries, payments, views, and spam across the whole site.

An Entries widget charts activity over your chosen date range with a per-form table of entries, views, interactions, and conversion rate, and a payments widget totals everything collected once a gateway is connected.

With the Geolocation addon active, Top Locations ranks the countries your visitors come from, and a Suggested Next Steps panel points to features worth turning on.

Nothing to install, as it comes with every plan, including Lite!

New Feature

WPForms QR Code

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Every form now has its own built-in QR code generator, with nothing extra to install or buy.

Open a form’s General settings, choose the page the form lives on or paste its URL, and click Generate QR Code to copy it or download it as a PNG or a print-ready SVG.

Put it on menus, packaging, event badges, or business cards, and every scan opens your form instead of a page that only hands people something to read.

Included with every plan, including Lite; Pro and Elite plans can keep, remove, or replace the WPForms logo in the center with their own.

New Feature

Ranking Field for Surveys & Polls

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The Surveys & Polls addon gains a Ranking field!

Instead of scoring each option separately, respondents drag options (or tap arrow buttons on a phone) into the order they prefer, so one option always has to come first.

WPForms tallies every response into a “Times at #1” count and an average rank for each option, with a chart that makes the winner obvious.

Lay options out as a vertical list or a grid, and use Image Choices or Icon Choices in place of plain text labels.

Integration New Feature Payments

Mercado Pago Addon

Introducing the WPForms Mercado Pago Addon: Card Payments Built for Latin America

The Mercado Pago addon brings on-page card payments built for Latin America to your forms.

Buyers enter their card details into secure, Mercado Pago-hosted fields inside the form, choose an installment plan, and pay in ARS, BRL, CLP, COP, MXN, PEN, or UYU without leaving your page.

An approved charge fires your confirmation, notifications, and integrations at the moment money actually moves, and full or partial refunds can be issued from WPForms » Payments.

WPForms takes no transaction fee, and it works with Quantities, Coupons, multi-page forms, Conversational Forms, Lead Forms, and Form Pages.

AI New Feature

WPForms Analytics

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WPForms 2.0 adds a complete form performance tracking suite inside your WordPress dashboard.

The All Forms page now shows Views, Entries, and Conversion Rate for every form, and each form gets its own analytics dashboard with views, interactions, conversion rate, abandonments, and errors over the last 7, 30, or 90 days or a custom range.

A field-by-field table shows interactions, time spent, errors, and abandonment for every field, so you can see exactly where people give up, and you can set a conversion goal to track progress.

There’s also a built-in AI chat reads your form data and tells you what is working, what is hurting conversions, and what to fix first.