Advanced Form Blocker

Discover how Advanced Form Blocker helps you manage your WordPress form submissions, leading to cleaner inboxes and higher-quality leads. We’ve designed it to be powerful yet easy to use!

Keeping Your Forms Clean & Focused

• Welcome Genuine Visitors: Block Specific Email Addresses
  • What it is: If you know of particular email addresses causing trouble or sending unwanted messages, you can add them to your blocklist.
  • How it helps: This lets you kindly prevent repeat issues from specific sources without affecting your wider audience, keeping your communications clear.
• Filter by Domain: Block Entire Email Domains
  • What it is: Some email domains are known for spam or are simply not relevant to your audience (e.g., spamdomain.com, disposable-email.net). You can block all emails from such domains.
  • How it helps: This is a friendly way to broadly filter out categories of submissions that aren’t a good fit, helping you focus on valuable interactions.

Managing Your Blocklist with Ease

• Simple Blocklist Updates with a JSON File
  • What it is: We use a straightforward blocklist.json file for your list of blocked emails and domains. Just prepare this simple file and upload it right from your WordPress admin area.
    • pro-tip, manage it in google sheets and have a script write it for you!
  • Example blocklist.json:
    json { "domains": ["blockthisdomain.com", "anotherbadone.org"], "emails": ["spammer@example.com", "unwanted@test.net"] }
  • How it helps: Updating your preferences is quick and easy. The file format is human-readable, so you always know what’s being managed.
• See Your Current Blocklist at a Glance
  • What it is: Inside the plugin settings, you can clearly see the contents of your currently active blocklist.json file.
  • How it helps: This offers peace of mind and transparency, letting you easily confirm that your desired settings are in place.

Designed for a Smooth WordPress Experience

• Works Beautifully with Gravity Forms (Currently Supported)
  • What it is: Advanced Form Blocker is ready to go with Gravity Forms, a favorite and powerful form builder for WordPress users.
  • How it helps: If you use Gravity Forms, you can start protecting your submissions almost immediately after setting up the plugin, with no complex integration needed.
• Communicate Clearly: Customizable Error Messages
  • What it is: You can write your own messages to show users if their submission is blocked because of their email or domain.
  • How it helps: This allows you to maintain your website’s friendly tone and provide helpful, clear feedback, even when a submission can’t be accepted.
• Easy to Navigate: User-Friendly Settings Page
  • What it is: All plugin options, blocklist uploads, API key details, and message customizations are found in one neat spot: Settings > Form Blocker in your WordPress admin.
  • How it helps: We’ve made it simple to manage everything without needing to dive into code for everyday use.

Connecting Securely with Your Other Tools (API Features)

• Share Your Preferences: Secure REST API Endpoint
  • What it is: For those who use external systems like CRMs (e.g., Pardot/Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, HubSpot), we offer a secure, read-only API. This lets those systems know about your blocklist.
  • How it helps: This feature helps ensure consistency across your platforms, so your CRM can also be aware of emails and domains you prefer not to interact with.
• Protected Access: API Key Authentication
  • What it is: Access to your blocklist via the API is protected by a unique API key, which is automatically generated and can be refreshed by you anytime.
  • How it helps: This keeps your blocklist information secure, ensuring only systems you authorize can access it.
• Simple Setup: Easy API URL Access
  • What it is: When the API is active, the settings page will show you the full API URL, including the key, ready to copy.
  • How it helps: This makes it easier for your technical team or developers to connect your external systems, saving them time.

Roadmap & Coming Soon

We’re always thinking of ways to make Advanced Form Blocker even more helpful. Here are some features we’re working on or planning for the future:

• ✨ Welcome More Control: Block by Referring URL (Coming Soon!)
  • What it will be: Imagine being able to guide submissions based on where visitors are coming from online (the HTTP_REFERER).
  • How it could help: This could offer another gentle way to filter out submissions from websites or referral sources that aren’t aligned with your goals.
• 🔌 More Friends to Play With: Expanded Form Plugin Integrations (On Our Roadmap)
  • What it will be: We’d love to bring Advanced Form Blocker’s helpful features to users of other popular WordPress form plugins, such as:
    • Contact Form 7
    • WPForms
    • Ninja Forms
    • And others you suggest!
  • How it could help: Use Advanced Form Blocker with even more of your favorite tools, extending its gentle protection across more of your site.
• 📚 Helpful Guides: Enhanced CRM Integration Tips & Examples (On Our Roadmap)
  • What it will be: We plan to create more detailed, friendly guides and perhaps some code snippets to help you connect Advanced Form Blocker with CRMs like Pardot and HubSpot.
  • How it could help: Make it even smoother to get your systems talking to each other, ensuring your blocklist preferences are shared effectively.
• 📊 Understanding a Bit More: Basic Reporting (Something We’re Exploring)
  • What it could be: We’re thinking about whether simple reports within WordPress (like how many submissions were blocked) would be useful.
  • How it could help: This might offer some interesting insights into how your blocklist is working and common sources of unwanted submissions.

We’d Love to Hear From You!

Your ideas and feedback are important to us. If there’s a feature that would make Advanced Form Blocker even better for you, please feel free to share your thoughts on our GitHub page.