Formidable Honeypot
Add SPAM protection to your Formidable forms without annoying your visitors with Captchas, math, or other fields.
5(2 reviews)
·400 active installs·Updated 11 years agoAs of April 2026, Formidable Honeypot is a WordPress spam plugin with 400 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
5/52 reviews
400active installs
5.1K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
The “honeypot” technique for SPAM protection is invisible to humans, and tricks robots into filling out an invisible form field. Then, if that invisible field has been filled, the form cannot be submitted. Easy, non-instrusive SPAM protection.
No settings to set, this honeypot is added to all Formidable forms on your site, unless the user is logged in. When SPAM is suspected, the form will not be submitted and the visitor will be alerted to this fact.
Tested to work with both Formidable (free) and Formidable Pro (best bet for awesome form power!)
A note to Formidable Pro users: You paid to receive extra features in the Formidable plugin. Me too, it’s well worth it. This Honeypot plugin, and Ryan (the developer) are not connected to Formidable in any way. Since this adds…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 3.9.40 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
0.2
- Date: June 25, 2014
- Improved Readme Documentation
- Minor tweak to avoid PHP warnings (not errors)
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