Gravity Forms Email Blacklist

Description

Email Blacklist Add-on for Gravity Forms was built to help block submissions from users with generic or competitors email addresses. Prevent the user form viewing the form’s Confirmation or Notifications and remove non qualified leads from being collected.

This plugin allows site admins to create a list of emails, domains and/or top level domains that if used in an email input field on a Gravity Form will cause a validation error and block the submission. A default email blacklist and validation message can be created to use across all forms. These default settings can be overridden on a per email input field basis.

Default settings can be added in the ‘Forms’ > ‘Settings’ > ‘Email Blacklist’. To add settings to an individual email input field just add one to the form and got to the input fields ‘Advanced Settings’ tab.

This plugin works by blocking either individual email addresses (exmple: jsmith@yahoo.com), email address domains (exmple: google.com), and/or, email address top-level domains (exmple: *.com).

Instructions

General Blacklist Settings

Once set up these setting will be used on all email input fields across all the Gravity Forms used on the site. They can be overridden by the individual email blacklist settings below.

1. Once Logged into your site navigate to ‘Forms’ > ‘Settings’ > ‘Email Blacklist’
2. Enter the email addresses (exmple: jsmigh@gmail.com), email address domains (exmple: gmail.com), and/or, email address top-level domains (exmple: *.com) separated by commas into the ‘Email Balcklist” field.
3. Enter the validation message you would like displayed to a user that try and use a blacklisted email when submitting a form into the ‘Error Message’ field.
4. Click the ‘Update Settings’ button to save the settings.

Individual Email Input Blacklist Settings

Once set up these setting will be used on this form only and in place of the general blacklist settings above.
1. Once Logged into your site navigate to the Gravity Form you would like to update.
2. Add or update an existing Email input filed on the form.
3. Go to the ‘Advance Settings’ tab for the Email input.
4. Enter the email addresses (exmple: jsmigh@gmail.com), email address domains (exmple: gmail.com), and/or, email address top-level domains (exmple: *.com) separated by commas into the ‘Email Balcklist” field. If you enter a space this will override the general blacklist and allow all email address to be submitted.
5. Enter the validation message you would like displayed to a user that try and use a blacklisted email when submitting a form into the ‘Error Message’ field.
6. Click the ‘Update’ button to save the settings.

Additional Resources

• Gravity Forms Documentation – Getting Started
• Gravity Forms Documentation – Email Input Fields
• Gravity Forms Documentation – Fighting Spam