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A CAPTCHA proves the sender is a human being. It does not stop a human being\nwhose job is to send sales pitches through other people's contact forms. If you\nrun a small business in Japan, that is most of what arrives in your inbox.<\/p>\n\n
Robse Form Guard reads each submission and scores its wording. Japanese\nbusiness-to-business sales boilerplate \u2014 \u8cb4\u793e, \u3054\u62c5\u5f53\u8005\u69d8, \u521d\u671f\u8cbb\u7528,\n\u5c0e\u5165\u5b9f\u7e3e and the like \u2014 is language a private customer asking about your work\nsimply does not use. When enough of it piles up in one message, the submission\nis stopped.<\/p>\n\n
Blocked submissions are kept, and can be forwarded to you.<\/strong> Each blocked\nsubmission is saved in a history on your own site (Settings > Robse Form Guard >\nHistory) for 30 days by default, with the reason, the score and the words that\nmatched. With forwarding turned on (the default), it is also emailed in full to\nthe site administrator or an address you choose. The history shows whether\neach email went out, and can send any entry again, so a copy is not lost when\nyour site cannot send mail. The visitor is shown a phone number or address you\nchoose, so a real customer caught by mistake can still reach you.<\/p>\n\n The wording is compared after folding the ways a word can be written:\nfull-width and half-width letters, upper and lower case, and spaces or\ninvisible characters slipped into a word (\uff33\uff25\uff2f, seo, \u5fa1 \u793e) all count.\nLinks are found in http(s):\/\/, www. and example.com\/page forms, but a\nvisitor's own email address is never counted as a link.<\/p>\n\n A new installation starts in watch only<\/strong>: it records, and emails you, what\nit would<\/em> have blocked while letting everything through. Run that for a week,\nlook at the History tab, then turn blocking on. Sites that used an earlier\nversion keep the mode they had.<\/p>\n\n It sits alongside reCAPTCHA, Akismet or Turnstile rather than replacing them:\nthose stop machines, this stops people who are paid to write to you.<\/p>\n\n The keyword list is Japanese and the plugin is aimed at Japanese-language\nsites. On a site in another language, replace the list with your own wording\nunder Settings.<\/p>\n\n When a submission is stopped (or, in watch-only mode, would have been), the\nplugin stores its full contents, the time and the submitting IP address in a\ndatabase table of its own ( When forwarding is turned on (the default), the same contents are emailed to\nthe address configured on the settings screen, which defaults to the site's\nown administration email address. That email is sent by WordPress from the\nsite itself. No data is transmitted to the plugin author or to any third\nparty, and the plugin makes no outbound network requests.<\/p>\n\n The rate limit stores a hashed form of the submitting IP address in a\ntransient, which expires on its own within the window you configure. The\ntoo-fast check adds a hidden field holding the time the form was shown and a\nsignature; nothing about the visitor is stored for it.<\/p>\n\n Uninstalling the plugin removes its settings and the history table.<\/p>\n\n\n These constants in Open the History tab, or the email it sent you \u2014 both list the words that\nmatched and the score, and the history keeps what they wrote so you can reply.\nEither lower the points on the word that misfired, or raise the score needed\nto match. Both are on the settings screen.<\/p><\/dd>\n The honeypot will stop simple ones. For machine submissions in general, keep\nreCAPTCHA, Turnstile or Akismet switched on as well. This plugin is aimed at\nthe sales messages a human being typed.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. Blocked submissions are kept in your own site's database. The only\nmessage it sends is the copy of a blocked submission, by email and only while\nforwarding is turned on, to the address you set on the settings screen \u2014 your\nown site's administrator address unless you change it. Nothing is sent to the\nplugin author or to any other server.<\/p><\/dd>\n Read them for the first few weeks. After that you can filter the subject line\ninto a folder, or turn forwarding off and use the History tab instead.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes, but the built-in list will not match anything. Replace it with the sales\nboilerplate used in your language.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\nWhat it checks<\/h4>\n\n
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Try it before you trust it<\/h4>\n\n
Which form plugins<\/h4>\n\n
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For Japanese sites<\/h4>\n\n
Privacy<\/h3>\n\n
{prefix}robse_form_guard_log<\/code>). Entries are deleted\nautomatically after the number of days set on the settings screen (30 by\ndefault, at most 5,000 entries), and can be deleted by hand at any time. The\nhistory can be turned off. It is included in WordPress's personal data export\nand erasure tools, matched by the email address in the submission, and the\nplugin suggests wording for your privacy policy.<\/p>\n\n\n
Rolling it out to many sites<\/h4>\n\n
wp-config.php<\/code> win over the settings screen, so a\ndeployment script can configure a site without touching its database:<\/p>\n\ndefine( 'ROBSE_FORM_GUARD_TEL', '03-0000-0000' );\ndefine( 'ROBSE_FORM_GUARD_QUARANTINE', 'you@example.com' );\ndefine( 'ROBSE_FORM_GUARD_THRESHOLD', 4 );\ndefine( 'ROBSE_FORM_GUARD_MODE', 'block' ); \/\/ or 'monitor'\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
It blocked a real customer.<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will it stop bots?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it send my form data anywhere?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
The blocked copies are filling my inbox.<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I use it on a site that is not in Japanese?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
2.3.0<\/h4>\n\n
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ROBSE_FORM_GUARD_MODE<\/code> can set it from\nwp-config.php.<\/li>\n2.2.0<\/h4>\n\n
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2.1.1<\/h4>\n\n
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2.1.0<\/h4>\n\n
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2.0.0<\/h4>\n\n
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