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@BlakeWhittle7 @KatieKeithBarn2 @SandyWPcom @KatieKeithBarn2 +1 for @SandyWPcom

@KatieKeithBarn2 @SandyWPcom all the way! 7-day expiration there on the free plan, but not sure if they require a card.

WordPress plugin people: What’s do you advise customers who need a staging site for troubleshooting but their host doesn’t offer one? We used to recommend @insta_wp but they now require a card and have 48-hr expiry, @TasteWp is also 48-hr and can’t clone in one click, and Local by @HeyFlywheel is fiddly and means installing software. Is there still a free, easy option?

@syedbalkhi @stalmico @wpbeginner Hey Balkhi, when you say "there's a feedback loop, so it learns from corrections" does that mean it learns from our site data?

@stalmico @wpbeginner You can set your threshold for confidence score, and there's a feedback loop, so it learns from corrections. For WPBeginner website, the accuracy is high 99.8% at this point.

I hate CAPTCHAs. And so do your customers ... up to 40% of them abandon a form the moment they see one. But the alternative used to be worse. At one point, my @wpbeginner forms got 18,000 spam requests in a single night. So I tried everything. Honeypots, rate limiting, etc -- they worked for a while until they didn't. There are premium spam tools, but they're often slow & expensive. They flag real people without telling me why. So I asked my team to build something better. It's called ActiveLayer (@activelayerapi) - an AI-powered spam protection that blocks bots without ever asking your real customers to prove they're human. No CAPTCHAs. No tracking scripts. No friction. It runs server-side in milliseconds and returns a verdict with a confidence score, so you can actually see why something was flagged. It works with every WordPress form plugin you already use including WPForms (@easywpforms), @gravityforms, Contact Form 7, Elementor (@elemntor), etc. There's also a clean REST API for everything else, so you can use it on any application platform, not just WordPress. Think of it as a smart security guard for your forms. It welcomes real people, blocks the bots, and never asks anyone to prove they are human. Let's make the web a little less spammy together. Try it free → activelayer.com