A Red Herring Form is an invisible form that is meant to mislead a spammer. Since a spammer does not actually render the page, but looks for login or comment forms, I have added forms for which the intent is to mislead the spammers. If they submit the form it will go directly to the spam list.<\/p>\n
In the past the red herring forms have broken some themes. I am experimenting right now by wrapping the whole section in a comment and placing it before the first page content. Not all pages will have these hidden forms. Not all themes will have them.<\/p>\n
If the spammers are smart enough to ignore html comments then this will not work.<\/p>\n
I should see some spammers caught in a few hours. If none are caught then I will have to wrap a hidden Div around the comments and risk breaking themes.<\/p>\n
As soon as the add-on is tested I’ll make it available for testing. I will then try selling it on one of the pay WordPress sites.<\/p>\n
Quick update! Before I finished this page a Chinese spammer had already hit the form 3 times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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