Do you use a captcha in your voting form? If not, it’s very simple to create a script that posts data automatically to any URI.
Contact Form 7 has captcha support, enable it if it’s not already and that should resolve the majority of the abuse.
A longer term solution would be a more robust voting system that prevents multiple entries from a single IP and heuristics to monitor abuse. Contact Form 7 really isn’t built for this type of application.
Thanks for the advice, i’m afraid I don’t really have knowledge of coding, how do I enable captcha for Contact Form 7?
- Install the Really Simple CAPTCHA plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-captcha/
- When you create a new form, add the following:
Please enter the code that you see to the right: [captchac competition-x]
[captchar competition-x 4/4]
Change the “competition-x” in those tags to something unique each time.
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Side note: @acchiappaprezzo Do not post your now deleted links on each reply like that.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Signatures
It’s considered spamming when you do that. Please stop. 😉
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Side note 2: @acchiappaprezzo Also? Affiliate links are not allowed and I’ve deleted your Site5 link.
Thanks for the help though, that part is greatly appreciated. 😀
Sorry about that, was hoping getting some link juice while doing positive work wouldn’t be frowned upon. I won’t do it again.
Ok thanks, do I just create a new form in Contact Form 7 as normal after installing the plugin? or somewhere else?
Hi acchiappaprezzo, I’ve worked it out and it works! Thank you SO much for your help!
