Chazie Baniquid
Technical Content Marketer
3 minutes to read
How to block countries in QuForm?
The Problem: QuForm Doesn’t Block Countries
Out of the box, QuForm doesn’t give you a way to block submissions by country. Its focus is on building custom, flexible forms—not stopping bad traffic.
That means if spam or abuse is coming from specific regions, you’ll need to add another layer of protection.
The Quick Fix: OOPSpam Anti-Spam
OOPSpam Anti-Spam (that’s us 👋) integrates with QuForm to give you country-level control. It filters form submissions before they reach your inbox or database, letting you stop abuse at the source.
What You Gain with OOPSpam
- Country filtering to allow or block submissions.
- Language filtering to stop unwanted text.
- Rate limiting to prevent form floods.
- Machine learning-powered spam detection that blocks bots.
- Proxy, VPN, and TOR blocking for stronger protection.
- Submission logs so you know what’s being stopped.
How to Set It Up
Install and activate the OOPSpam Anti-Spam plugin in WordPress. Create an account at OOPSpam.com and get your API key.
In WordPress, go to Settings > OOPSpam Anti-Spam and paste in the key.
Enable spam protection for QuForm.
Under the General Settings tab, use Country Filtering to choose which countries to block or allow.
Save your settings and monitor results in the Spam & Ham logs.
For deeper insights, check the OOPSpam Dashboard, where you’ll see detailed filtering reports, reasons for blocking, and spam patterns over time.
The Bigger Solution: Cloudflare Firewall
If spam is just part of the problem and you’re dealing with brute force logins, scraping, or DDoS attempts, you’ll want a network-level solution.
Cloudflare Firewall lets you block visitors from entire countries before they ever reach your WordPress site.
Quick Setup in Cloudflare
- Log in to Cloudflare.
- Go to Security > WAF > Firewall Rules.
- Create a new rule named ‘Block Countries’.
- Set the field to Country, operator is in, then select the countries.
- Choose Block as the action and save.
From now on, traffic from those regions will never reach your forms or your site.
Final thoughts
- Use OOPSpam – When you want to block spam submissions in QuForm only.
- Use Cloudflare – When you need site-wide blocking against traffic from entire countries.
QuForm is excellent for building powerful forms, but it isn’t built for country-level security. Pairing it with OOPSpam or Cloudflare keeps your forms open for real users while shutting out spam and abuse.
