Fighting Spam with Honeypot

If you’ve ever used a contact form on your website, you’ve probably encountered spam submissions. Luckily, Gravity Forms has a built-in anti-spam honeypot setting that can help prevent spam form entries without sacrificing the experience of your real, human audience.

Hi, this is Sarah from the Gravity team and in this video we’re going to take a quick look at how you can use the honeypot field to fight spam.

If you’d prefer to follow a written guide, be sure to check out our blog article, linked in the video summary.

So, you might be wondering, what is a honeypot field? Simply put, it’s a form field that’s hidden on the front end, so your legitimate human visitors won’t see it or interact with it. Bots, on the other hand, will still see the field and fill it out, and then those entries will be flagged as spam.

The good news is, enabling the honeypot field for your forms only takes seconds. Simply navigate to your form’s settings and scroll down to the Form Options section. Next, toggle on the Anti-spam honeypot field.

You can then decide whether or not you want an entry created when a submission is flagged as spam. If you’re worried about a legitimate response being flagged as spam, we recommend choosing ‘Create an entry and mark it as spam’.

You can then go to the Entries section for your form to review all the form entries, including those that have been marked as spam.

For more tips on fighting spam, check out our video on five tools to fight spam, linked in the video summary.

For more Gravity Forms guides and tutorials, be sure to check out our video library. From everyone on the Gravity team, thanks for watching!