Gravity Forms Zero Spam

No. AI review stays off until you connect an AI service (OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini) in WordPress 7.0 or newer and then enable the feature in the Zero Spam settings. Zero Spam never stores API keys, and no form data is sent to an AI service unless you opt in.

Yes. Gravity Forms Zero Spam supports PHP 7.4 and newer, including PHP 8.

You can enable a spam summary report email, sent to the email address configured in the Spam Summary Email setting.

To configure that setting, click on the Gravity Forms Forms menu, click Settings, then click the Zero Spam tab. You will see the Spam Summary Email setting there.

To disable by default, from your Dashboard, go to Forms, then Settings, then the Zero Spam tab. Under the Enable Zero Spam by Default setting, choose Disabled, then save the form.

Once you have saved the setting, to enable for specific forms:

1. Go to the form
2. Click on Settings
3. Under Form Options, enable “Prevent spam using Gravity Forms Zero Spam” (Don’t see the setting? This feature requires Gravity Forms 2.5 or newer)
4. Save the settings

Now that form will use Zero Spam.

First, deactivate and reactivate the plugin. Then let us know on the WordPress.org support forum!

Yes! When this plugin marks an entry as spam, it prevents processing of any configured notifications and add-on feeds. When an entry is marked as spam, it also prevents use of the configured confirmation. Users who submit an entry marked as spam will see the default Gravity Forms “Thanks for contacting us! We will get in touch with you shortly.” confirmation text instead.

No. For that, we recommend Ben Marshall’s WordPress Zero Spam plugin.

Gravity Forms 2.7 added functionality that has similar features to this plugin. However, Zero Spam adds spam summary report emails, email rejection rules, optional AI spam review, and Shield Security integration, none of which are built into Gravity Forms: keep this plugin installed!

1. Go to the form
2. Click on Settings
3. Under Form Options, disable “Prevent spam using Gravity Forms Zero Spam” (Don’t see the setting? This feature requires Gravity Forms 2.5 or newer)
4. Save the settings

New form submissions will not be checked using Zero Spam.

Yes, you can use this plugin in combination with all other spam-blocking plugins, including:

• Gravity Forms’ Google reCAPTCHA feature
• WPBruiser
• Akismet
• Gravity Forms’ honeypot fields
• GravityCAPTCHA
• CleanTalk
• WP Armor
• fail2ban

Zero Spam will not interfere with the operation of those plugins. It also doesn’t interfere with Gravity Forms’ built-in honeypot functionality. For a broader look at your options, see our guide on preventing Gravity Forms spam.

This works with all Gravity Forms releases after v2.3 (released June 2017). Some features have newer requirements: the per-form toggle requires Gravity Forms 2.5 or newer, and blocking submissions with email rejection rules requires Gravity Forms 2.9.15 or newer.