Simple, lightweight, no captcha, no configuration. Just works.
As of April 2026, Invisible Anti Spam for Contact Form 7 (Simple No-Bot) is a WordPress bot blocker plugin with 200 active installations and a 2.3/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.1K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.2+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Better Robots.txt – AI-Ready Crawl….
Simple No-Bot uses javascript to detect if Contact Form 7 is being submitted by a spam bot.
We wrote this when clients were reporting hundreds of bogus contact forms were getting past Honeypot, but did not want to add a captcha that would impact conversions.
This lightweight script has been extremely effective for eliminating spam messages from Contact Form 7 (and other forms) submissions. It does not pretend to be a complete anti spam solution.
SNB REJECTS SUBMISSIONS UNLESS THE USER INTERACTS WITH THE FORM. In earlier versions of SNB, the submit button was disabled until this threshold was met. You can now set this option in wp-config.php (see below).
In most cases it will be enabled after the user starts typing in the first field. It has not broken your form.
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| WordPress | 5.2+ requiredTested up to 5.3.21 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
2.2.4 More super secret Turing tweaks.
2.2.0 Removed the hash comparison and added super secret Turing device.
2.1.5 Disabling the submit button before user interaction is now optional. Reduced minimum events to 2.
2.1.3 Added general plugin support. Strenghened hashing and XHR protocol. Added spam IP list. Added debug log.
1.0.5 Simplified validation
1.0.2 Change wp nonce functions to wpcf7 nonce functions
1.0 Initial release
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