Hooks

The plugins comes with the following hooks:

Adding custom spam rule

You can overwrite spam filtering in the OOPSpam WordPress plugin using the oopspam_check_for_spam filter and return a score based on your own logic.

In some cases where you can use it:

• Allow and block certain IPs
• Allow and block certain emails
• Block based on some keywords
• and more.

In your theme’s functions.php file or anywhere else, add the following code:

add_filter('oopspam_check_for_spam', 'mycustom_spam_check', 10, 3);
function mycustom_spam_check($message, $ip, $email) {
    // Your custom logic
    // Return 0 for ham/not spam or 6 for spam.
    return 6;
}

The returned value can be any value from 0 to 6.

We recommend keeping it simple and returning 0 for not spam, and 6 for spam entries.

Disable Honeypot in WooCommerce

While honeypot protection helps block bots, it may also block users using password managers or similar browser extensions to autofill forms. To prevent this, you can disable the honeypot and rely on IP and email reputation to assess spam risk.

To disable the honeypot, add the following code to the functions.php file or elsewhere in your theme:

add_filter('oopspam_woo_disable_honeypot', '__return_true');

Modify default settings on plugin activation

The oopspam_set_default_settings action fires when the plugin initializes its default settings. You can use this to customize defaults before the settings page is used:

add_action('oopspam_set_default_settings', 'my_custom_defaults');
function my_custom_defaults() {
    // Update default sensitivity level to be stricter
    $settings = get_option('oopspamantispam_settings');
    if (empty($settings['oopspam_api_key'])) {
        // Plugin hasn't been configured yet - set your defaults
        update_option('oopspamantispam_settings', array_merge(
            (array) $settings,
            ['oopspam_spam_score_threshold' => 4]
        ));
    }
}