I hate CAPTCHAs. But really, really HATE. So I did not want to implement a CAPTCHA myself to prevent spam on a contact form. Turns out Cloudflare has just the product I want, and implementing it was a breeze.
Though Textpattern is still not a huge target for comment spammers, lately, this website seems to have been discovered by some comment spammers that target textpattern as well. And so began my quest for a blocking system. Before attempting to write one myself, I decided it might be easier to first check if someone already…