We inherited a site using Formidable. They’re getting a lot of spam submissions despite having recaptcha, honeypot, etc. turned on.
After reading up on Formidable, it runs the message body against the Settings -> Discussion -> Disallowed Comment Keys. So we’re using that to disallow any submissions that have an http or https which will cut the spam level by about 80% right off the bat.
The problem is that after setting this up, we see that an error message is shown to the user: “There was a problem with your submission. Errors are marked below. Your entry appears to be blocked spam.”
They’d like us to customize this message so it doesn’t show the specific “Your entry appears to be blocked spam,” message.
I tried hiding it with some form-specific CSS but I’m looking for a hook that might allow us to actually customize this message. The message is not a Formidable message but coming from WP core as far as I can tell.
I spent about 45 minutes googling and binging (is that even a term) but couldn’t find a hook to customize this message.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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Looks like you need to sharpen your Google-Fu… “Formidable Forms change form error message text”: https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/frm_invalid_error_message/