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Issue 12

The enquiry you never got

A form submits, the visitor sees "thanks", and no email ever arrives. SMTP logging plugins can't catch it, because the failure isn't in the transport — the notification was never attempted at all. Here's how to test your own forms today, and the reconciliation approach that catches silent failures for good.

conversionwordpressformsmonitoring

19 August 2026

Issue 10

The real cost of form spam isn't the spam

Form spam doesn't cost you time, it costs you attention — and eventually a real enquiry gets skimmed past. Aggressive CAPTCHAs and bulk deletes both make it worse. The safer approach: detection that only inspects free-text fields, blocking at submission, a recoverable trash, and a schedule.

conversionwordpressforms

7 August 2026