Do you want to prevent a website visitor from submitting a form more than once? Looking to avoid spam and fake data from flooding your form submissions? Do you want to defend your forms against bot attacks?
Let’s see how you can prevent duplicate form submissions in WordPress forms.
Why should you prevent duplicates in WordPress form submissions?
- Avoiding data inconsistencies: If a user submits the same form multiple times, it can create inconsistencies in your data, leading to errors and incorrect information. This can be especially problematic if the form submission triggers some action or database update as it will trigger multiple automated actions leading to wastage of resources.
- Preventing spam and protecting your site:: Duplicates form submissions can be used as a way to flood your website with spam or fake data. This can overload your server and waste resources. It can also be a sign of malicious activity, such as an attempted denial-of-service attack.
By preventing duplicate submissions, you can help protect your site from these kinds of attacks.
Tablesome – WordPress Contact Form Automation plugin
Tablesome is a WordPress form automation plugin that integrates with several WordPress forms plugins to execute tasks automatically when a form is submitted on your site.
You can use Tablesome to store your form entries to tables. Using Tablesome, you can “prevent duplicate submissions” from being stored on your table. Even if a form is submitted multiple times, Tablesome will store the data only once.
So your site will be protected from data inconsistencies, and you can protect your WordPress forms from getting spammed and bot attacks.
Also, checkout the WordPress form automations possible with Tablesome.
What are the WordPress forms plugins that are supported by Tablesome?
- Contact Form 7 prevent duplicate submissions
- Gravity Forms prevent duplicate submissions
- WPForms prevent duplicate submissions
- Elementor Forms prevent duplicate submissions
- Fluent Forms prevent duplicate submissions
- Forminator prevent duplicate submissions
How to prevent duplicate form submissions using Tablesome?
To continue to the below steps you have to install and activate the Tablesome plugin on your site.
- Go to Tablesome → Add New Table
- Give it a suitable title
- In the sidebar, go to the Workflows tab
- Under triggers you will find all of the triggers provided by Tablesome, you have to find and select the “On Form Submit” trigger of the form plugin that you use
- Then select the form that you want to prevent duplicates in the ‘Form Id’ field
- Then in the actions section select Tablesome “Add Row” action, which will open a new section with several options
- Here enable the “Prevent Duplication” option which will open the “Check Duplicate by Field”
- You have to choose which form field to check the data to identify the duplicate
- You can also limit the number of form submissions in the Pro version
- Then select Auto-detect form fields and save the table.
Now you can try submitting multiple form submissions and you can find that Tablesome will only store 1 entry and thereby stopping duplicates!