Apio systems – Honeypot for Contact Form 7
Basic Honeypot plugin for Contact Form 7 to drastically reduce spam on form submissions without user interaction.
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·60 active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Apio systems is a WordPress forms plugin with 60 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 404 times in total. Requires WordPress 6.5+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Top alternative: WPForms – Easy Form Builder for….
0/5Rating
60active installs
404total downloads
1 yearsince 2025
Overview
I like to use Contact Form 7 on most of my WordPress sites. It’s a powerful form manager that suits all my needs. I don’t like to use external calls to protect the forms from spam submissions though (like reCaptcha or hCaptcha) and don’t want to present a manual captcha to a user (math or other puzzle). Since I couldn’t find a really basic honeypot script that works on most entries, I created one here. Hopefully it’s useful to someone else also.
Setup
- Install the plugin using the regular plugin setup routine or upload the entire apiosys-honeypot-cf7 folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
- Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress, you MUST have Contact Form 7 AND Flamingo installed and enabled.
- Add the following shortcodes…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
| Dependencies | contact-form-7, flamingo |
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Changelog
0.9.4 – 2025-12-04
- FEAT: Added checkbox trap.
- FEAT: Improved field hiding.
- FEAT: Email domain TLD check.
- FEAT: Updated default spam keywords list.
- FEAT: Separate list with spam phrases.
…and 1 more changes
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