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craftcms/contact-form-honeypot
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Add a honeypot captcha to your Craft CMS contact form

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Contact Form Honeypot plugin for Craft
======================================

[](#contact-form-honeypot-plugin-for-craft)

This plugin allows you to add a [honeypot captcha](http://haacked.com/archive/2007/09/11/honeypot-captcha.aspx/) to your Craft CMS contact form.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

This plugin requires Craft CMS 4.0.0+ or 5.0.0+, and the [Contact Form](https://github.com/craftcms/contact-form) plugin.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You can install this plugin from the Plugin Store or with Composer.

#### From the Plugin Store

[](#from-the-plugin-store)

Go to the Plugin Store in your project’s Control Panel and search for “Contact Form Honeypot”. Then click on the “Install” button in its modal window.

#### With Composer

[](#with-composer)

Open your terminal and run the following commands:

```
# go to the project directory
cd /path/to/my-project.test

# tell Composer to load the plugin
composer require craftcms/contact-form-honeypot

# tell Craft to install the plugin
./craft plugin/install contact-form-honeypot
```

Setup
-----

[](#setup)

To configure the plugin, go to Settings → Contact Form Honeypot, and choose a param name that your honeypot field should have.

Then edit your contact form template(s), and add the honeypot field.

```

```

You can hide the field with CSS:

```
input#secretHoneypotParamName { display: none; }
```

###  Health Score

52

—

FairBetter than 96% of packages

Maintenance64

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity41

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community21

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 66.7% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~415 days

Recently: every ~378 days

Total

9

Last Release

11d ago

Major Versions

1.0.3 → 2.0.02022-05-03

2.x-dev → 3.x-dev2026-06-23

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3ccdf8b493035de2343c55bd889513e3af5c04d5823482a2b186ad16adb1c3e3?d=identicon)[brandonkelly](/maintainers/brandonkelly)

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Top Contributors

[![brandonkelly](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/47792?v=4)](https://github.com/brandonkelly "brandonkelly (30 commits)")[![angrybrad](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/61869?v=4)](https://github.com/angrybrad "angrybrad (11 commits)")[![benjamindavid](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2911900?v=4)](https://github.com/benjamindavid "benjamindavid (1 commits)")[![i-just](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4500340?v=4)](https://github.com/i-just "i-just (1 commits)")[![iparr](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/497635?v=4)](https://github.com/iparr "iparr (1 commits)")[![Radabaugh](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/22623466?v=4)](https://github.com/Radabaugh "Radabaugh (1 commits)")

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Tags

craft-plugincraft3craftcmscmsyii2formcontactcraftcmsHoneypot

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