Simple Bot Honeypot Plugin – Stephen Swanson

What is Simple Bot Honeypot?

Simple Bot Honeypot is a simple, no-fuss WordPress plugin that adds a hidden decoy form to your website, tricking bots into submitting data to a fake endpoint. While human visitors won’t even notice it, automated bots that crawl your site are likely to fill it out, revealing their presence. When this happens, the plugin logs the bot’s IP address, user agent, and time of submission for review, and blocks the bot from continuing to interact with your site.

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Key Features of Simple Bot Honeypot:

Invisible Decoy Forms: The plugin injects a hidden form into your website’s content, with a random, deceptive field that bots tend to fill out. Human users won’t see or interact with it, making it a perfect decoy to fool bots.
Randomized Field Names and IDs: The plugin uses randomized form IDs and field names (like x87z_email_contact_form), making it even harder for bots to recognize the honeypot field as a trap. This additional layer of obfuscation helps ensure that bots don’t easily bypass your protection.
Bot Submission Logging: When a bot submits the decoy form, the plugin logs valuable information such as the bot’s IP address, user agent, and the time of the submission. This information is stored securely within your WordPress site, making it easy to monitor potential bot activity.
Admin Dashboard: The plugin adds a convenient admin page where you can view a list of detected bot submissions. You can see key details such as the submission time, IP address, and the user agent of the bot trying to interact with your site.
Theme Compatibility with wp_body_open: The plugin seamlessly integrates with your site’s theme using the wp_body_open hook. If your theme doesn’t support this hook, it falls back to inject the form directly after the <body> tag, ensuring compatibility across most themes.
Effortless Setup: Installation is quick and easy. Simply install the plugin, and the decoy form will automatically be added to your site. You won’t have to modify any code, and there are no complex settings to configure. Just activate the plugin and let it do its job.
Clear Logs Option: Want to clear the bot submission logs? No problem! You can easily remove all logged entries through the plugin’s admin page, keeping your site’s data clean and organized.

Why Choose Simple Bot Honeypot?

Simple Bot Honeypot is more than just another anti-spam tool. It’s a powerful, easy-to-use solution that enhances your site’s security while keeping things simple. Here’s why you should use it:

Minimal Impact on User Experience: Since the form is invisible to real users, there’s no disruption to their browsing experience.
No Need for CAPTCHA: Unlike traditional CAPTCHA systems, which can annoy legitimate users, Simple Bot Honeypot remains completely invisible and unobtrusive.
Low Resource Usage: This plugin is designed to be lightweight, so it won’t slow down your site’s performance or use excessive server resources.
Efficient Protection: Bots are likely to interact with the decoy form, so they’re blocked from reaching your actual forms and content.
Easy to Manage: You can review bot activity and clear logs directly from the WordPress admin panel without having to dive into server logs or complicated tools.

How to Get Started

Install and Activate: Simply download and install the Simple Bot Honeypot plugin from the WordPress plugin repository.
Automatic Integration: Once activated, the plugin automatically adds the decoy form to your site without the need for any configuration.
Monitor Bot Activity: Head to the “Bot Submissions” section in the admin menu to review any detected bot activity.
Clear Logs: If you wish to clear the bot submission logs, simply click the “Clear Submissions” button on the admin page.

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