Akismet is a spam filtering service that checks your site content against its global spam database. Protect your comments, contact forms, and signups from spam automatically.
Paperform connects to Akismet directly through Stepper workflows.
How Akismet connects to Paperform
Direct methods run inside your Paperform account. Zapier and Make are there too if your team already uses them.
Run a Stepper workflow when someone submits your form: 6 Akismet actions, included in your Paperform account.
- Open Stepper from your Paperform account and create a workflow.
- Start it with the Paperform “New Submission” trigger and choose your form.
- Add a Akismet step, connect your account and map the submission’s answers to its fields.
Akismet actions in Stepper
- Check Content for Spam
- Submit Spam
- Submit Ham (False Positive)
- Get Usage Limit
- List Key Sites
- Make HTTP Request
What your form sends to Akismet
For example, with a Stepper workflow the “Check Content for Spam” action takes these fields. Map each one to a question
on your form, and every submission fills them in.
| Akismet field | Question on your form | Required |
|---|
| Submitter IP Address | Address | Yes |
| Content | Long answer | No |
| Author Name | Short answer | No |
| Author Email | Email | No |
| Content Type | Long answer | No |
| Author URL | URL | No |
| Content URL | URL | No |
| User Agent | Short answer | No |
Start from a template
Pick a template, then connect it to Akismet. There are 30,000+ in the
templates directory.
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