Title: Mimic Guard
Author: aoto
Published: <strong>April 26, 2026</strong>
Last modified: April 28, 2026

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# Mimic Guard

 By [aoto](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aoto0328/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/mimic-guard.1.3.3.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/mimic-guard/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/mimic-guard/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mimic-guard/)

## Description

Mimic Guard is an anti-spam plugin for WordPress mail and contact forms. It uses
dynamic honeypots, submission time monitoring, and integration with major form plugins
to reduce automated bot submissions.

 * **Honeypot** — Detects bots that fill hidden form fields
 * **Time check** — Flags submissions that are unrealistically fast after the form
   is shown
 * **Form integration** — Works with WPForms, Contact Form 7, comments, and more
 * **Page caching** — Optional AJAX honeypot injection when HTML is cached
 * **Privacy** — Optional IP anonymization when logging events

Configure minimum submission time, token lifetime, log list size, and more from 
the admin screens.

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin folder to `/wp-content/plugins/mimicguard/` or install from the
    ZIP file.
 2. Activate Mimic Guard on the Plugins screen in WordPress.
 3. Open the Mimic Guard menu to review settings and logs.

## FAQ

### I use a full-page caching plugin

Enable “Insert honeypot via AJAX (cache-friendly)” so honeypots can still be loaded
even when HTML is cached.

### Legitimate submissions are being blocked

Try increasing the minimum submission time slightly, or disable “Require time-check
token” if you do not need it.

### Where are logs stored?

In a dedicated database table. You can run cleanup from the admin area based on 
retention settings.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Mimic Guard” is open source software. The following people have contributed to 
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ aoto ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aoto0328/)

“Mimic Guard” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/mimic-guard/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Mimic Guard” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/mimic-guard)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mimic-guard/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/mimic-guard/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/mimic-guard/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/mimic-guard/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.3.3

Reduced honeypot false positives from browser/password manager autofill by hardening
honeypot field attributes and narrowing dynamic prefix checks; also improved detailed
block reason logging and frontend guard checks.

#### 1.3.2

Further hardening for WordPress.org review: sanitize request data used for spam 
checks, escape admin template output, sanitize server variables for IP logging, 
Prime Form AJAX callback naming, remove bundled PHPUnit bootstrap from the distribution
package.

#### 1.3.1

WordPress.org review: enqueue scripts, sanitization/escaping, readme contributor,
translations loading.

#### 1.3.0

Internal improvements, security, and code quality updates.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3.3**
 *  Last updated **2 weeks ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/mimic-guard/) and [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mimic-guard/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/mimic-guard)
 * Tags
 * [comments](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)[contact form](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/contact-form/)
   [honeypot](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/honeypot/)[security](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)
   [spam](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/spam/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/mimic-guard/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ aoto ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aoto0328/)

## Support

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