How To Block Gravity Forms SPAM from Ever Getting Submitted

I was going to add “for free” but neither Gravity Forms (GF) nor Gravity Perks (GP) are free… but you’re probably not reading this unless you already own GF.

Or maybe you’ve heard how great Gravity Forms is and this is just what you needed to confidently get started with it. (See our other Gravity Forms tips)

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You’ll Need…

• Gravity Forms
• Gravity Forms Blacklist from Gravity Perks
• About 15 minutes

Quick Steps

1. Install and activate Gravity Forms, Gravity Perks, and the Gravity Forms Blacklist plugins.
2. Install and activate the Comment Blacklist Manager by Andrew Norcross. We like this one because it enables manually adding your own disallowed keywords to GitHub’s list.
3. Go to each Gravity Forms form and apply the Perk to the textarea, email, and other fields you’ve noticed get abused by spammers.

How-To Video

Note: The word “blacklist” is expected to be replaced with something more appropriate and descriptive like “disallowed keywords” sometime after this post and video were created.