Title: How exactly does this plugin work?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# How exactly does this plugin work?

 *  Resolved [frank tredici](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frank13/)
 * (@frank13)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-exactly-does-this-plugin-work/)
 * I am running a Multisite network. The plugin claims to work with multisite.
 * So I “Network Activated” the plugin on 1 of my networks that has a `Contact Form
   7` contact us page running with the `Postman SMTP` plugin.
 * I see no menu item or settings for Zero Spam on my site.
 * So I proceeded to test my CF7 form by completing it with my name, my email address,
   the subject “Great Site”, and the body message “Get viagra”.
 * The message went through, no problems…
 * So exactly how does this plugin work and what exactly does it do?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/zero-spam/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/zero-spam/)

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 *  [Andy Fragen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afragen/)
 * (@afragen)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-exactly-does-this-plugin-work/#post-6303781)
 * Zero Spam settings are under the Settings menu for the Network Admin in Multisite.
 *  Thread Starter [frank tredici](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frank13/)
 * (@frank13)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-exactly-does-this-plugin-work/#post-6303784)
 * Thanks at @AndyFragen for answering part 1 of the post.
 * **Part 2:**
 * So I proceeded to test my CF7 form by completing it with my name, my email address,
   the subject “Great Site”, and the body message “Get viagra”.
 * The message went through, no problems…
 * So exactly how does this plugin work and what exactly does it do?
 *  [Andy Fragen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afragen/)
 * (@afragen)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-exactly-does-this-plugin-work/#post-6303801)
 * Zero Spam seeks to stop spam bots. Please read the following as it was the inspiration
   for this plugin. [http://davidwalsh.name/wordpress-comment-spam](http://davidwalsh.name/wordpress-comment-spam)
 * As such, a real user leaving a spammy comment will go through but a bit trying
   to leave a spammy comment will not. Make sense?
 *  Thread Starter [frank tredici](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frank13/)
 * (@frank13)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-exactly-does-this-plugin-work/#post-6303802)
 * Is there any feature in your plugin to tag certain words and stop them as spam?
   Example, I get people filling out the forms to offer their SEO services. How 
   do we cut that off?
 *  [Andy Fragen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afragen/)
 * (@afragen)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-exactly-does-this-plugin-work/#post-6303803)
 * That’s not how this plugin works, at least I don’t think that’s how it t works.
   You may need to use Aksimet in addition to Zero Spam.
 * If there ever becomes a feature to add a ban by IP then you might be able to 
   do it.
 *  Thread Starter [frank tredici](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frank13/)
 * (@frank13)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-exactly-does-this-plugin-work/#post-6303807)
 * I run Akismet and there is no feature to add your own words or phrases (like 
   viagra, SEO, etc.) to block spam.
 * Thanks for your suggestion about IP banning, but it is word banning that is the
   needed and valuable feature.
 *  [Andy Fragen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afragen/)
 * (@afragen)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-exactly-does-this-plugin-work/#post-6303818)
 * You might want to look at this project. [https://github.com/splorp/wordpress-comment-blacklist](https://github.com/splorp/wordpress-comment-blacklist)
 *  Thread Starter [frank tredici](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frank13/)
 * (@frank13)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-exactly-does-this-plugin-work/#post-6303827)
 * Excellent @AndyFragen. I’ll give it a shot. Might help me from having to go off
   and create one on my own at the moment.

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