How to Use Akismet to Protect Your Contact Form

Spammers often use contact forms as a way to spam your email. It’s easy to prevent that using the Contact Form 7 and Akismet plugins – Contact Form 7 is a simple, free plugin for creating forms, and Akismet is already installed in WordPress by default

Here’s how to use Akismet to protect your Contact Form 7 Forms:

1. Activate Akismet from your WordPress plugins menu

2. Install and activate the Contact Form 7 plugin

3. Create a simple contact form.

4. In the form options page, remove the auto-generated code and paste this in its place:

 <p>Your Name (required)<br />
    [text* your-name akismet:author class:sidebarinput]  </p>
 
<p>Your Email (required)<br />
    [email* your-email akismet:author_email class:sidebarinput ] </p>
 
<p>Subject<br />
    [text your-subject akismet:author_subject class:sidebarinput ] </p>
 
<p>Your Message<br />
    [textarea your-message class:sidebarinput] </p>
 
<p>[submit "Send"]</p>

5. Save your changes, and you’re done.

Now you can add this new contact form to a page, and Akismet will protect it from spammers.

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