Would you like to implement a hidden field to help detect & block spam bots from submission? Essential Addons for Contact Form 7 plugin’s Honeypot field does exactly the same.
Follow the below guidelines to implement a hidden field to prevent bot submissions.
Make sure you have installed both Contact Form 7 & Essential Addons Contact Form 7 plugins inside your WordPress.
Enable Honeypot
You must enable the Honeypot field to prevent unwanted bot submissions for Contact Form 7. To do that, follow the below steps:
- Navigate to the Contact Form 7 menu.
- Essential Addons.
- From the Fields tab enable the Honeypot.
Add Honeypot Field
To implement the Honeypot in your contact form follow the below steps:
- Navigate to any existing form or create a new one.
- Add the “Honeypot” tag where you want to display in your form.
Configure Honeypot
After clicking the Honeypot Field tag a new popup window will appear. Here you can configure & customize the Honeypot settings.
- Name: Usually the name field is auto-generated. You can add custom value if required. Note: For better security, change “honeypot” to something more appealing to a bot, such as text including “email” or “website”.
- Disable Accessibility Label: Tick or untick to customize the visibility of the field.
- Placeholder: Enter custom placeholder if required.
- Class Attributes: Enter custom class attributes if required.
Click the Insert Tag button once the configuration is done.
- The customized tag will be added to your form editing panel.
- Save Changes.
Embed the Shortcode
- Copy & Paste the shortcode inside your page or post to display the form.
