Just pasting this into a page or post doesn’t really work, as WordPress wants to “ help” you, and prevent you from hurting yourself. Trouble, however, started rearing its ugly head as soon as I wanted to integrate this form in this WordPress website. The HTML for the form was easily created using the tutorials found on and an old second edition “ Handboek HTML5 en CSS3“, I picked up a few years ago browsing a second hand bookshop. Having build websites using HTML and CSS in the past, and having some basic experience with Javascript, this looked like a fun afternoon project. I am aware there exists many tools which generate forms for websites or even provide you a platform which hosts the form ( e.g., google-forms, which I used in the past), but I wanted to do implement it myself (…something to do with pride 😉 ). What started out with the intention of being an almost trivial exercise in building a web-form, turned into a steep learning curve about web-development and cyber-security. The art of learning something new: Do it from scratch A first step in this process entails making the application a bit more uniform: using an online registration form. To improve on the user-friendliness, I thought it would be nice to automate this a bit.

This has the drawback that any future user needs to wait until I find the time to reply. I would then e-mail them the program, and add their information to a user list for future reference ( i.e., support and some statistics for my personal entertainment). Up until now, potential users had to directly send me an e-mail, telling me a bit more about themselves and their work. You can learn more about the Google reCAPTCHA service and how to install and set it up for your website here.ĭespite the fact that Klaviyo does not have a direct integration with Google reCAPTCHA and therefore cannot advise on how to how to set this up, several members of my technical team have commented that reCaptcha would still function on Klaviyo forms, so you would not need to create legacy forms to implement this. Furthermore, we have seen multiple instances of reCaptcha appearing for customers using Klaviyo forms without issues.Īdditionally, another way to tackle clearing spam bots from your account to prevent negatively impacting your deliverability while still having your List set to single opt-in, would be to perform List cleaning often.Recently, I decided to add a custom registration form to my website, as part of an effort to improve and streamline the “ HIVE-STM tool experience” 😉. While the best way to prevent spam bots from signing up via your forms would be to enable double opt-in on your list, I would advise investigating setting up Google reCAPTCHA on your embed form. The setup of Google reCAPTCHA would actually not be a Klaviyo capability, but rather something that would need to be coded onto your website.

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