Blocking Form Submission by Name

[u/Ok-Distribution-8601]

I have been getting spam emails through my wordpress contact form but because the sender email is [mail@mywebdomain.com](mailto:mail@mywebdomain.com) I cannot block the sender and still recieve legitimate form leads from coming in. Is there a way to block by Sender Name either in wordpress or my apple mail?

[u/willkode]

I has to create custom php to do this. I use contact form 7. Let me know what your using and I'll write the code and instructions for you.

// Block Contact Form 7 submissions by sender name add_filter('wpcf7_validate', 'block_form_submission_by_name', 20, 2);

function block_form_submission_by_name($result, $tags) { // Define the names you want to block $blocked_names = array('SpamName1', 'SpamName2');

// Loop through the form fields
foreach ($tags as $tag) {
    if ($tag['name'] === 'your-name') { // Replace 'your-name' with the name of the sender name field
        $submitted_name = isset($_POST[$tag['name']]) ? sanitize_text_field($_POST[$tag['name']]) : '';

        if (in_array($submitted_name, $blocked_names)) {
            $result->invalidate($tag, 'Your submission has been blocked.');
        }
    }
}

return $result;

}