{"id":32,"date":"2011-06-16T17:39:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T17:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2011-06-16T17:40:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T17:40:01","slug":"akismet-contact-form-7-cf7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/akismet-contact-form-7-cf7\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Akismet with Contact Form 7 (CF7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an issue I&#8217;ve run into multiple times, and I have to search for it every time, so thought I would share it here.  You can use the AWESOME <a href=\"http:\/\/contactform7.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/spam-filtering-with-akismet\/\">Akismet to filter spam on contact forms in WordPress that use Contact Form 7<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNext, add the following Akismet-related options into the appropriate fields in your form.<\/p>\n<p>akismet:author<br \/>\nAdd this option to the field that accepts the name of the sender.<br \/>\nExample: [text* your-name akismet:author]<br \/>\nakismet:author_email<br \/>\nAdd this option to the field that accepts the email address of the sender.<br \/>\nExample: [email* your-email akismet:author_email]<br \/>\nakismet:author_url<br \/>\nAdd this option to the field that accepts the URL of the sender.<br \/>\nExample: [text your-url akismet:author_url]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the most important tip:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf Akismet judges the submission as spam, Contact Form 7 cancels the sending of mails and shows a message that says, \u201cit failed to send the message.\u201d You\u2019ll see an orange border around the response message when it has been judged as spam.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/contactform7.com\/blog\/\">Contact Form 7 blog <\/a>for more info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">This is an issue I&#8217;ve run into multiple times, and I have to search for it every time, so thought I would share it here. You can use the AWESOME Akismet to filter spam on contact forms in WordPress that use Contact Form 7. Next, add the following Akismet-related options into the appropriate fields in your form. akismet:author Add this&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-danger\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/akismet-contact-form-7-cf7\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.5.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Using Akismet with Contact Form 7 (CF7) - All Tech Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/akismet-contact-form-7-cf7\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bob Weber\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/akismet-contact-form-7-cf7\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.alltechbusiness.com\/akismet-contact-form-7-cf7\/\",\"name\":\"Using Akismet with Contact Form 7 (CF7) - 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