Like many other WordPress users, I use a comment form plugin in order to get comments from my website’s WordPress installation into my mailbox. Getting that information from the site to the inbox is a fairly simple process, due mainly to fact that I used a simple contact form plugin.

For the most part, I was getting the occasional spammer who actually took the time to write manual spam into the form (why, I’m not sure — since manually entering spam would only reach me, and doesn’t manually sending each spam message kind of defeat the purpose of spam), but for the most part, my inbox stayed relatively clean.

For the past month however, my comment form has been hit with more automated spam — not a ridiculous amount, but just enough to be annoying. On most days, I would get at least three or four spam message with gibberish subject lines which I needed to delete.

Time to switch to a contact form that protects me from that kind of automated spam. I tried a bunch of them out, but all of them were either too complicated to install (which means I was too tired/lazy to actually follow the steps in the instructions) or didn’t include the really basic spam protection I was looking for.

That’s when I stumbled upon Enhanced WordPress Contact Form, which does exactly what I need and really nothing more. While I wasn’t overly impressed with the way it looked, I simple wrapped some HTML tags around some of the fields in the admin panel and that fixed things up nicely.

Just in case there’s anyone else out there who is experiencing the same kind of issue with contact form spam, I would suggest checking out this great, simple spam-fighting WordPress plugin.