Akismet is a widely used spam filtering service that continuously learns from content marked as spam across all websites.
In order to use this plugin, you must have an Akismet account. If your site is non-commercial, you can use their services for free. Once you have an account, grab your API key to configure this plugin.
Akismet can use any of the following data from your form submissions to aid in detecting spam:
textarea
fieldUsing the following form as an example:
<form action="https://postform.com/s/FORM_ID" method="POST">
<div>
<label for="name">Name</label>
<input id="name" name="yourName" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="email">Email</label>
<input id="email" name="yourEmail" />
</div>
<div style="display: none">
<label for="phoneNumber">Phone Number</label>
<input id="phoneNumber" name="yourPhoneNumber" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="website">Website</label>
<input id="website" name="yourWebsite" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="message">Message</label>
<textarea id="message" name="message"></textarea>
</div>
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
The plugin can be configured as shown below. Note the input name
s from the HTML form are entered in the appropriate configuration field. By doing this, Postform knows how to access and send the data to Akismet.
The configuration fields of this plugin correspond to a parameter of Akismet's API. For more details, check out their API docs: https://akismet.com/development/api/#comment-check