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  1. Getting Started
  2. Customizations
  3. Captcha & SPAM

Honeypot

NOT RECOMMENDED: Prevent bots and spammers using your forms to send emails.

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Warning: This feature is depreciated. Please use any other captcha.

Honeypot seems to be less effective in forms to prevent spam submissions. So, we suggest you add a proper captcha to protect your form.

Bots and Spam Submissions are prevented using the Honeypot Spam Prevention method. By now, these bots are getting advanced, so we have made sure to add some extra layer of protection for this Honeypot. This will stop most bots from submitting your form.

botcheck

Honeypot is optional to include, however we recommend adding this if you are not using the or

See the code below.

<input type="checkbox" name="botcheck" class="hidden" style="display: none;">

The Input type should be checkbox and the name should be botcheck

hCaptcha
reCaptcha Integration