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Introducing the Gravity Forms Akismet Add-On

By Gravity Forms Published July 7, 2021

Continuing our commitment to supporting our customers to combat spam form entries, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Gravity Forms Akismet Add-On. With this add-on, you can expect further integration between Gravity Forms and Akismet, helping to provide Akismet with accurate form data and consequently providing more reliable results when it comes to spam filtering.

Spam is an on-going issue for all website owners, and integrating your forms with Akismet can save you much time and resources, not to mention reduce frustration, freeing you up to concentrate on what matters most, your business!

So let’s find out more about this new add-on…

Filter Out Spam Form Entries with the Gravity Forms Akismet Add-On

Akismet is a leading spam protection solution, used by millions of websites, that filters hundreds of millions of spam comments and form entries everyday.

Although Gravity Forms already has built-in support for Akismet, the Akismet Add-On has been created to further improve the integration between our plugin and this service. With the Gravity Forms Akismet Add-On, you can now send more accurate form data to Akismet, helping to significantly improve the identification of spam form entries.

Let’s find out more…

Preventing Spam

The Gravity Forms Add-On works in conjunction with the Akismet Spam Protection plugin, checking form submissions against the Akismet global database of spam. Submissions identified as spam by Akismet will then have their entry property set to spam. This prevents form notifications being sent and add-ons processing the information submitted.

Reliable Results

To ensure Akismet filters your form entries correctly, you need to ensure you are sending accurate data to the service. The Gravity Forms Akismet Add-On allows you to map your form fields to ensure the correct field data is sent to Akismet, helping to train Akismet to identify and filter out form entries that are spam.

This is particularly useful for more complex forms, and can not only increase the amount of spam submissions that are identified, but also ensure that legitimate entries aren’t labelled as spam.

Marking Form Entries

Spam submissions can be reviewed in the Entries area of the form. Marking an entry as spam or not spam, using the features available on the entries and entry detail pages, will notify Akismet, helping to train their filters.

For more information on how this add-on integrates Gravity Forms and Akismet, please check out the documentation.

Further Spam Prevention Add-Ons and Built-in Features

As mentioned, Gravity Forms is committed to helping our users combat spam form submissions. We provide a number of add-ons and built-in features to help prevent spam. These include…

• Gravity Forms Akismet Add-On
• Gravity Forms reCAPTCHA Add-On (Support for Google ReCAPTCHA v3)
• Built-in Support for Google reCAPTCHA v2
• Built-in Support for the HoneyPot Spam Prevention Method
• Built-in Support for Conditional Logic on the Submit Button

We recommend that you use one or more of these options to reduce the amount of spam form entries you receive. For more information on these anti-spam strategies, checkout out this article – How to… Prevent Spam Form Entries.

Get This Add-On!

The new Akismet Add-On is available with ALL Gravity Forms license types. If you are an existing customer, simply install the Akismet Add-On from the Add-On browser in your WordPress Admin, or download it from within your Gravity Forms Account Dashboard.

If you are yet to purchase Gravity Forms, and you want to find out more about the licenses and the many features that we offer, pop on over to our pricing page to compare our plans.

And make sure you check out our free demo, no credit card required, where you’ll get access to all the Gravity Forms features and add-ons to play around with.