{"id":480,"date":"2013-09-29T11:17:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T17:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/?p=480"},"modified":"2018-03-03T12:23:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T20:23:39","slug":"defeating-form-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/defeating-form-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeating Form Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I create a lot of web sites, many for my own amusement, but sometimes the form spammers find the contact form or comment form and start emailing their spam. Now I have a solution to stopping form spam in it&#8217;s tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The details are over on my new <a title=\"How to Stop Form Spam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.formspammertrap.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\">FormSpammerTrap <\/a>web site. That&#8217;s where the automated form spammers end up when they try to spam my contact forms. The concept is quite easy to implement, and even works on WordPress sites without needing another plugin.<\/p>\n<p>I also put the details about stopping form spam on my <a title=\"Keeping things secure in a digital world\" href=\"http:\/\/www.securitydawg.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\">SecurityDawg <\/a>web site. (That is another example of a web site that amuses me. I liked the domain name.)<\/p>\n<p>If you have problems with form or comment spam, check out the FormSpammerTrap site.\u00a0 The process works quite well. If one of my sites starts getting form spam, it will stop as soon as I implement my process.\u00a0 And the whole process is absolutely free, open source.<\/p>\n<p>It just works. And I am quite proud of myself for figuring it out. (I am, apparently, also easily impressed.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I create a lot of web sites, many for my own amusement, but sometimes the form spammers find the contact form or comment form and start emailing their spam. Now I have a solution to stopping form spam in it&#8217;s tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The details are over on my new <a title=\"How to Stop Form Spam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.formspammertrap.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\">FormSpammerTrap <\/a>web site. That&#8217;s where the automated form spammers end up when they try to spam my contact forms. The concept is quite easy to implement,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/defeating-form-spam\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Defeating Form Spam &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-saying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}