Spam in Community Calendar

[Molly]

Hi,

I feel like I should be able to ask someone directly if I have a question about your product before I purchase but since this is my only option, here’s my question:

I am considering your Community plug-in for a calendar on our site that anyone can post real estate open houses on and I’m concerned about spam. I’ve seen some older posts (2013-14) about this being an issue but I’m wondering if you’ve addressed the spam issue in later updates.

Thanks

[Barry]

Hi Molly,

Thanks for posting!

Virtually all of our support and all pre-sales enquiries are handled via the forums. I definitely appreciate live chat or even a phone-based conversation may have more appeal but we don’t currently offer either option (and I wanted to emphasize that, in case it is an important factor in your decision making process).

In relation to spam-fighting efforts, besides having an option to save new submissions as drafts (allowing admins an opportunity to vet them), we additionally now offer direct integration with reCaptcha which greatly reduces the likelihood of spam getting through.

Let me know if you have any further questions 🙂

[Will]

Hi Barry,

I ended up purchasing the Community plugin for my website but now I want to embed the Calendar into a page. Is it true that I can only use the shortcodes if I purchase the Events Pro at another $89?

[Barry]

Hi Will/Molly: that is true – the shortcodes we provide for that purpose are a part of Events Calendar PRO itself.

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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