zem_contact_reborn 4.0.3.20

Logoleptic · 2008-01-24 20:48:55

ZCR has always done a fantastic job of blocking spam, but lately I’ve been getting about one “male enhancement” message per day through my contact form. I’m running the current version of the plugin, together with pap_contact_cleaner and my own aam_zcr_clearcache.

Can anyone suggest additional ways to harden a ZCR form against spam? I’d like to avoid CAPTCHA, if possible.

ruud · 2008-01-24 21:10:59

You could try making the akismet plugin work with ZCR

Logoleptic · 2008-01-24 23:01:22

ruud wrote:

You could try making the akismet plugin work with ZCR

That’s a good idea, but Akismet requires a $50/month subscription for commercial use. This isn’t anywhere near a $600/yr problem for me yet.

It might help to know what’s already being done. I know that ZCR uses nonces, and pap_contact_cleaner uses hidden fields. Are there any other anti-spam measures already in place?

Another possible factor: I’m running an altered version of pap_contact_cleaner. Because that plugin’s field names were causing problems with some form pre-fillers (Safari’s, for example) I exchanged them for nonsense words. That’s probably a weaker solution. Can anyone tell me whether Safari still pre-fills hidden fields, or has that been fixed?

Thanks! :-)

rsskga · 2008-01-29 20:58:02

I wish I could set the tab order with my ZCR input fields. Tabindex isn’t an attribute so can’t be applied. I briefly thought about trying to wrap the ZCR tags in an html tag, but I don’t think that would work, either. Anybody know of a workaround? Or if it could become a feature in the next release?

Logoleptic · 2008-01-29 21:45:41

rsskga wrote:

I wish I could set the tab order with my ZCR input fields. Tabindex isn’t an attribute so can’t be applied. I briefly thought about trying to wrap the ZCR tags in an html tag, but I don’t think that would work, either. Anybody know of a workaround? Or if it could become a feature in the next release?

Using tabindex can actually have some negative implications for a site’s disabled accessibility. Like the accesskey attribute (which has its own issues), this is one of those features of HTML that’s a nice idea but doesn’t work so well in practice.

ruud · 2008-01-30 19:12:28

It is a planned feature for a next release, but it’s not going to happen soon.

typeshige · 2008-02-05 22:59:05

I hope this hasn’t been covered recently, but I was wondering if it was possible to show the contact form again after you submit instead of the “thanks” message.

I’m using this plugin to create a page feedback form and it makes sense to show the form again after they submitted.

I tried passing the form as the “thanks_form” but it only showed the text parts of the form.

Thanks!

rsskga · 2008-02-06 00:23:45

Logoleptic wrote:

rsskga wrote:

I wish I could set the tab order with my ZCR input fields. Tabindex isn’t an attribute so can’t be applied. I briefly thought about trying to wrap the ZCR tags in an html tag, but I don’t think that would work, either. Anybody know of a workaround? Or if it could become a feature in the next release?

Using tabindex can actually have some negative implications for a site’s disabled accessibility. Like the accesskey attribute (which has its own issues), this is one of those features of HTML that’s a nice idea but doesn’t work so well in practice.

Fair enough. Thanks for the info. By the way, I subscribed to your blog – but fyi… when I click on the RSS button in the address bar (in Safari) I get an error message. Cutting and pasting your main blog URL into my feed reader seemed to work just fine, though.

ruud · 2008-02-06 07:00:39

typeshige, that’s possible only by first redirecting to another page and having that redirect back to the page containing the form.

typeshige · 2008-02-06 08:23:29

ruud wrote:

typeshige, that’s possible only by first redirecting to another page and having that redirect back to the page containing the form.

Thanks! I’ll give it a shot.

Joey · 2008-02-11 23:07:19

Logoleptic wrote:

ZCR has always done a fantastic job of blocking spam, but lately I’ve been getting about one “male enhancement” message per day through my contact form. I’m running the current version of the plugin, together with pap_contact_cleaner and my own aam_zcr_clearcache.
Can anyone suggest additional ways to harden a ZCR form against spam? I’d like to avoid CAPTCHA, if possible.

I also receive a lot of spam lately. I only use this plugin without any further additions.

simsim · 2008-02-12 15:09:04

Hello,

How can I make the link to “Send Article” opens in a new popup window? Now it just opens in the same window and has confused many people on the site.

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