Reply To: Comment spam via front end form textarea field

• Elliot

• November 29, 2013 at 10:13 am

Hi @robteamworks

Thanks for the bug report. It looks like the front end form needs to contain some kind of ‘honey pot’ or captcha for spam entries.

Becuase the front end form is quite new to ACF, the plugin does not yet contain these features, but I’mm sure we can add them in.

Version 5 is well underway and contains PHP validation which can prevent the data from being saved. It would be quite easy to add in a hidden cutom field (honey pot) and then use the PHP validation hook to return false and stop the post from saving.

For now, I think you could do something similar using the pre_save_post action.

Give this a go:

In the acf_form args, add a hidden custom field in the ‘html_before_fields’. Perhaps also read up on the honey pot tactics online

Then in the pre_save_post action, check the $_POST data and simply die if the form contains data in that field.

Hope that helps.

Thanks
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