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Tired of spam emails flooding your inbox from your contact form? MentoGuard is a lightweight, privacy-first spam blocker that protects your Contact Form 7 forms from bots - without annoying your real visitors with image puzzles or checkbox challenges.<\/p>\n\n
If you are looking for a reliable reCAPTCHA alternative that is fully GDPR compliant, MentoGuard stops spam bots silently using behavioral analysis and server-side token verification. Zero data is sent to Google or any external server. Ever.<\/p>\n\n
Currently optimized for Contact Form 7 (CF7)<\/strong>, with support for more form builders coming in future releases.<\/p>\n\n MentoGuard uses five independent protection layers that work together invisibly:<\/p>\n\n Real users pass all five layers without ever knowing they exist.<\/p>\n\n MentoGuard stores only the IP address and spam score of blocked submissions - in your own WordPress database. No data is transmitted to any external service at any time. On uninstall, all data is removed completely.<\/p>\n\n Add [mentoguard] inside your CF7 form editor, before the submit button:<\/p>\n\n [text* your-name]\n[email* your-email]\n[mentoguard]\n[submit \"Send\"]<\/p>\n\n That is all. MentoGuard registers as a native CF7 form tag and activates automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n Yes. MentoGuard replaces reCAPTCHA with server-side behavioral analysis and token verification. No Google account required, no data sent externally, fully GDPR compliant.<\/p><\/dd>\n MentoGuard uses a scoring system across multiple independent signals. Real users rarely trigger enough signals to reach the block threshold. Enable Test Mode before going live to verify scores on your own site.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. MentoGuard registers as a native CF7 form tag. Place [mentoguard] inside the CF7 form editor and it works immediately - no other configuration needed.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. No data leaves your server. Only blocked submissions are logged in your own WordPress database. Log retention period is configurable. All data is deleted on plugin uninstall.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. MentoGuard scripts load only on pages containing a CF7 form with [mentoguard]. All other pages are completely unaffected - no scripts, no styles, no impact.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. The IP Blacklist supports individual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses as well as CIDR ranges (e.g. 192.168.0.0\/24). Blacklisted IPs are blocked before any other validation runs.<\/p><\/dd>\n Enable Debug Mode in Settings, submit a form, then go to MentoGuard > Debug Log. You will see every validation layer - what was checked, what was found, and exactly why the submission was allowed or blocked.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. The core protection engine is form-builder agnostic. Contact Form 7 is the first integration. More form builders are planned for future releases.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\nHow It Works<\/h4>\n\n
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What is the Debug Log?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Will other form builders be supported?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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