<font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">La dernière version de Honeypot for Contact Form 7, la version 2.1.3, comporte une alerte de sécurité de l'antivirus Avast : script:snh-gen. En conséquence, j'ai dû réinstaller l'ancienne version. J'espère qu'il s'agit d'un bug et non d'un changement de propriétaire du plugin.</font></font>

UPDATE : In fact, the problem stems from the contact form and the fact that it appears at the same time as the latest update is pure chance. So, if others are reading this topic, the culprit is contact form 7.

C.Thierry

The "plugin" does what it is supposed to do, namely keep SPAM away.
It also works flawlessly with the current WordPress version 6.5.3.

A small tip for those who still receive SPAM:

• Uses at least three hidden fields in different positions within the form
• Give the hidden fields realistic names
• Activate the time check
• Additionally use the label "Quiz" of Contact Form 7
• Deactivate the autoresponder of Contact Form 7

After six months, we still don't receive a single SPAM mail.

Thank you very much for such an ingenious, privacy-friendly "recapcha" alternative!

Good choice if don't want to use recapcha

I tried every configuration possible. I added one Honeypot field, added several, tried it with or without a timer, with different time limits, with IDs and names that look legit. Whatever I did, the bots always knew to skip it, and it just doesn't do anything. It never stopped a single spam submission.

I am giving one star so others won't waste so much time as I did trying to figure out why it doesn't work, or what they did wrong.

Excellent implementation of a "honey pot". Of course, one has to know what one's doing to customise this plugin's use (I made a couple of adjustments for my site's circumstances), but top marks for such a straightforward idea. It works!

Our contactforms are still being spammed like crazy, despite adding the honeypot field and setting the timer to 10 seconds. I guess the bots have outsmarted this technology.

This doesn't work? Followed installation instructions and enabled the various recommended settings, but spam is still getting through. Pretty pointless in its current guise.

Still having spam from my Contact Forms after configuring the honeypot field in my forms

I have followed the documentation but there is still LOTS of spam getting through with this.

Now looking for a plugin that works.

Been using CF7 for years and never received spam on them until literally 10 seconds after I was telling someone how I never get spam on my CF7 forms. I paid for Akismet and got a spam within 2 minutes, so I got my money back on that. The logic behind these solutions seems to align with what I thought would work before I started researching, so we'll see. I think the biggest help will be the ability to set a human timer, but the honeypot field should also add a nice road block, in theory. Time will tell...