Title: Request: Filter by message text length
Last modified: February 29, 2024

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# Request: Filter by message text length

 *  Resolved [sumiro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumiro/)
 * (@sumiro)
 * [2 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-filter-by-message-text-length/)
 * Hello,
 * My website has in the last few months received an absolute barrage of weird contact
   form entries. They’re quite innocuous, as they contain absolutely nothing other
   than a bogus email-address, a single name in the text field for their name, and
   the same first- and surnames in the text field for the subject and textarea field
   for the message. Innocuous as they may be, they’re still very annoying.
 * There is no consistent feature that ties these messages together, other than 
   always using a VPN in a eastern european country and the general structure of
   the entry, so the only effective way of blocking them out is to deny the entire
   IP-block of a single country, which may of course discriminate against legitimate
   users in those countries.
 * I don’t expect any legitimate website visitor using my contact form to only input
   two words in my contact form, so I would like to request a features to simply
   be able to filter on length of the input in a text area field.
 * Thanks
 * [Here](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/953988062252261488/1212778646570409994/image.png?ex=65f31321&is=65e09e21&hm=045a5a7fb4bdfee73350a8d82306ee2387fd8d9692328b7d13f2aa4e0092817e&)
   is a screen dump of two such messages, that were caught because they came from
   a Moldovan IP address.
    -  This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by [sumiro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sumiro/).
      Reason: Forgot a word

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 *  Plugin Author [yonifre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yonifre/)
 * (@yonifre)
 * [2 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-filter-by-message-text-length/#post-17466062)
 * Hey, thank you for the message.
   We will consider adding this filter in the following
   versions.
    -  This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by [yonifre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yonifre/).
      Reason: spelling mistake

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 * [filtering](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/filtering/)
 * [length](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/length/)
 * [message](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/message/)
 * [option](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/option/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [yonifre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yonifre/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-filter-by-message-text-length/#post-17466062)
 * Status: resolved