Description

Do you receive spams every day? have you installed a dozen plugins and you still get spammed? Well this may be the solution to your problem.
This plugin filters messages submitted from contact form 7. You can decide to either filter messages based on restricted words found in the content of the message or filter based on the email of the person submitting the form.
Filters will be extended to other contact form plugins with time.

Supported Plugins

Contact form 7
WPForms

Note: This is just an extension. This plugin is not affiliated with or endorsed by Contact Form 7.

How to Contribute

The source codes can be downloaded here GitHub

Screenshots

Dashboard
Blocked messages
Options

Installation

Download the plugin
Install and activate
Open CF7 Form Filter from your admin menu
Go to Options and fill your restricted words and/or emails
You can decide to activate the words filter and/or email filter
Save and wait for someone to submit

Reviews

darrenbb Marso 21, 2023 2 replies

Since employing this plugin. The human spam has gone. Thank you. would a great idea to have option to block spam on convert kit or fluent form submit also and offer as premium.

salvatur77 Setyembre 26, 2022 1 reply

This plugin works exactly as I expected! The ability to block messages based on keywords, email domains and languages helps so much and currently blocks 99.9% of spam on my website. I made a request to the plugin developer to add a feature, and a couple of weeks later he replied to my message saying that the feature is now added. I'm impressed that this plugin is free. I really wish the developer could create a version that works with Gravity Forms as well 🙂

ungern Setyembre 23, 2021 1 reply

Lots of spam would get through via our contact forms despite simple "do the math" hurdle and Captcha too, and they all stick in this gem. Download, install, you won't regret it. Super-de-luxe I must say!

hirankings Marso 7, 2022 1 reply

This plugin has helped tremendously to reduce spam submissions. Thank you Very responsive support which is fantastic.

XStylus Marso 27, 2021

This plugin installs easily, works perfectly, and is simple to use. What more can you ask for? Our contact forms had been receiving lots of bot spam that were evading Captcha. Many such spams were promoting either the same thing repeatedly, or were Russian. This plugin is perfectly tailored to block such garbage. I briefly ran into one small issue, and the developer was quick to issue a fix. Couldn't ask for better.

Inndesign Enero 23, 2021

I left a post on the support panel with suggestions. The plugin needs refinement but it is off to a great start! We haven't incurred any spam on over 120 websites since installation.

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Contributors & Developers

“Message Filter for Contact Form 7” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

kofimokome

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Changelog

1.4.7

Fix bug when adding a custom field on the WPForm settings page.
Fix text fields not checked for spam.

1.4.6

Fix bug when selecting multiple messages. Sometimes the delete button disappears when selecting multiple messages.

1.4.5

Fix bug when deleting multiple messages

1.4.4

Add the ability to mark a message as not spam

1.4.3

Fix disappearing fields on save

1.4.2

Upgrade guide updated

1.4.1

Fix migrations not running on upgrade

1.4.0

Add support for WPForms
Add premium plugin

1.3.6

Fix emoji in filter not working
Add [emoji] filter
Add option to show a success message if a spam is found.
Fix single line text filters not working

1.3.5

Fix wrong filter name on the filters page

1.3.4

Add [japanesse] [hiragana] [katakana] and [kanji] filters
Compatibility with WordPress 6.0

1.3.3

Add tests
Compatibility with WordPress 5.9
Update min php version to 5.6

1.3.2

Escape HTML tags in message content

1.3.1

Add compatibility with WordPress 5.8

1.3.0

Fix bug when filter sees words separated with space as two words
Fix filter not working for words like “.online”

1.2.5

Add auto-clear messages function
Move log file to uploads folder
Grouped blocked messages per form
Bug fixes

1.2.4

Fix bug with some messages with links bypassing the checks

1.2.3

Add option to filter other text fields
Update [link] filter to filter urls without protocols
Other Bug Fixes

1.2.2

Add custom error messages
Add ability to filter messages containing links using [link] keyword
Bug Fixes

1.2.1

Fix unicode characters not displaying in all messages page

1.2.0

Refactored Codes
New dashboard UI