Antispam
How to view spam form submissions
If you’ve enabled WP Cerber’s anti-spam protection, the engine protects all or selected forms on your WordPress-powered website and denies attempts to submit spam. But how can we see submitted form data if a form submission was identified as spam? It’s possible by using Traffic Inspector logging capabilities. Enable the [...]
Configuring exceptions for the anti-spam engine
Usually, you need to configure anti-spam exceptions if you use a technology that communicates with your website by submitting forms or sending POST requests programmatically. In such cases, WP Cerber can block legitimate requests because it can recognize them as generated by bots. This leads to false positives, which you can see on the [...]
How to stop spam user registrations on your WordPress
Enable an antispam engine for the registration form The fastest way to stop spammers is to enable the antispam engine for the WordPress registration form. To enable protection: Go to the Antispam plugin admin page Enable Protect registration form with bot detection engine in the Cerber antispam engine section If you have a [...]
How to stop spam form submissions on your WordPress
Cerber's anti-spam and bot detection engine is capable to protect all contact and registration forms on a website. It’s compatible with virtually any form.
Why reCAPTCHA does not protect WordPress against bots and brute-force attacks
What is reCAPTCHA, anyway? Google’s reCAPTCHA is a human verification mechanism that created and maintained by Google as a free web service. WP Cerber supports reCAPTCHA for WooCommerce and WordPress forms as an anti-spam feature. Why does reCAPTCHA not protect WordPress from bots and brute-force attacks? It’s [...]
How to set up reCAPTCHA
What is reCAPTCHA and how does it work? reCAPTCHA is a human verification mechanism that provides a free anti-spam service. It can be used alongside with the WP Cerber anti-spam engine. When reCAPTCHA is configured for a form on your website, a couple of JavaScript scripts are loaded from Google’s servers every time the [...]