A WordPress website provides a means to create community and communicate with your customers. Whether you’re a business, non-profit or an individual blogger – this is invaluable. But it’s not without its downsides. Among the biggest is in dealing with the inevitable WordPress spam that can arise from all corners of your website.

Josh Pollock is a longtime friend of WPShout, and an even-longer-time friend of WordPress itself. He’s also built what, it turns out, is an extremely cool form plugin, Caldera Forms.

Contact forms are used a lot on WordPress sites, and for good reason. People know that spammers scrape web pages looking for email addresses to spam. So one of the simplest ways you can decrease the likelihood of getting spam emails is to not show your email address. Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular ways to do that.