Automattic

Matt Mullenweg

Michael Adams (mdawaffe)

Christopher Finke

Ryan Boren

Andy Skelton

Eoin Gallagher

Joseph Scott

Tellyworth

Stephane Daury (stephdau)

Greg

Lisa Schuyler

bluefuton

Derek Springer

Dave Martin (lessbloat)

kbrownkd (a11n)

Andy Perdomo (a11n)

Anti-Spam

Josh Smith

The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.
Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
Major features in Akismet include:
<ul>
<li>Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam.</li>
<li>Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator.</li>
<li>URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links.</li>
<li>Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user.</li>
<li>A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site.</li>
</ul>
PS: You’ll be prompted to get an Akismet.com API key to use it, once activated. Keys are free for personal blogs; paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites.

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection

Nice

Great Plugin

Does the job

It's really good


There are many better ways to handle spam than this garbage. Indeed i with the false positive rate this plugin has it is worse than nothing


Worst antispam plugin


Akismet has been with me since I've been on WordPress and really doesn't miss when compared to other solutions. Keep up the great work!


Doesn't miss a shot


Works very well for basic users so they do not have to buy a paid one just to protect a small site.


Works very well for basic users

The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.

CloudFilt

Prevent and block bot traffic, web scraping, Tor traffic, spam submissions (comments and contact forms), online fraud, business logic abuse, and denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. 
This plugin inserts the CloudFilt tracking and security codes into your website, enabling the protection services available at https://cloudfilt.com/ 
You can read the full documentation at: https://docs.cloudfilt.com/
Terms and Conditions: https://cloudfilt.com/docs/pt_cloudfilt_07302025.pdf
Tags: web security, bot blocking, web application firewall, antispam, stop bad bots
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>
Authentification form
<ul>
<li>Using your public and private key to connect your WordPress website to your CloudFilt account and enable CloudFilt features.</li>
<li>Check if your website is still connected to your CloudFilt account.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Enabled CloudFilt features
<ul>
<li>Prevents and stop bots traffic, Web Scraping, Tor traffic, Spam Submissions, Web Fraud, Business logic and Denial of service (DDoS).</li>
<li>Injects JS into pages to track and detect potentially dangerous users.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<ol>
<li>Login to your CloudFilt account and go to https://app.cloudfilt.com/websites.</li>
<li>Select the website and go to Settings > Integration & Plugins.</li>
<li>In the “WordPress” tab, retrieve the public key and the private key.</li>
<li>Login to the administration page of your WordPress and select the “CloudFilt” plugin from the menu.</li>
<li>In the form, paste the keys you retrieved from your CloudFilt account.</li>
<li>Once it is done, you can go back to https://app.cloudfilt.com and access to your website’s security statistics. Bots can’t be anymore go on your website and users are tracked.</li>
</ol>
To learn more, see the screenshots section.

CloudFilt Bot & Spam Protection

Prevent and stop bots traffic. This plugin inserts in your website the CloudFilt codes for the security tracking available on https://cloudfilt.com/.

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection vs CloudFilt Bot & Spam Protection