Elementor Form Hardening is designed as a targeted validation and normalization layer for selected Elementor forms.
The repository tracks the production custom code used to deploy that behavior through Code Snippets or an equivalent reviewed custom-code loading method.
The architecture should remain explicit, conservative, portable, and reviewable.
This layer determines whether a given Elementor submission should be handled by this implementation at all.
Recommended model:
- explicit naming convention
- strict prefix matching
- no blanket interception of unrelated forms
This layer evaluates whether the submission meets the configured qualification policy.
Examples:
- email field presence
- email validity
- blocked consumer-domain match
- optional allowlist logic
- policy precedence rules
This layer normalizes targeted fields before downstream actions run.
Examples:
- whitespace trimming
- safe text sanitization
- normalized email casing where appropriate
- URL normalization where applicable
This layer returns clear validation errors without leaking unnecessary policy internals.
This layer concerns how the code is loaded into WordPress.
Recommended model:
- deploy through Code Snippets or an equivalent reviewed custom-code loader
- keep scope sitewide only when required by the implementation
- document snippet title, execution mode, and rollback path
- avoid theme-bound placement where maintainability or reversibility would suffer
- universal anti-spam replacement
- global form interception
- deceptive silent blocking
- uncontrolled auto-configuration across all forms
- misrepresenting the code as a standalone plugin when it is not
- explicit over implicit
- server-side over client-only
- conservative defaults
- clear tradeoff documentation
- compatibility awareness
- maintainable public governance
- deployment accuracy in documentation