Block Spam and Bots On Your WordPress Website

  • Required Prerequisites
    • Your Website is built on WordPress
    • You have the IP address being sent through your form fill from your website contact form.
    • The plugin, Wordfence is installed on the website.

Steps to Block Specific IP Addresses, once you receive a spam form fill.

1st: Copy and paste the IP address from the spam contact form

Copying an IP from website contact form

2nd: Enter that IP address into the block list on the Wordfence application on your website.

Steps to block and ip address in wordfence

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AND Now you are done. Remember, this will not stop them from finding a new IP address, so these steps will need to be repeated as new spammers come through new IP addresses.

Blocked IP Addresses on wordfence

Above, see the IP addresses we blocked in the last 2 months and just how many spam forms this has blocked in the last 2 months. Everyone helps:)