AOS Digital

<p><strong>AOS Comment Spam Cleanup</strong> helps you remove comment spam in bulk using URL pattern matching, and prevents future bot submissions with a honeypot and quality scoring. Whether you have hundreds of shortlink spam comments or want ongoing protection, this plugin has you covered.</p>
<p>It works <em>alongside</em> Akismet and other spam filters, not instead of them.</p>
<h4>✨ What you can do</h4>
<p><strong>🔍 Pattern Scanner</strong><br />
Type a URL fragment (e.g. <code>shorturl.fm</code>) into the scanner, click <strong>Check Count</strong> to see exactly how many comments match, then choose your action: mark as spam, move to trash, or delete permanently.</p>
<p><strong>⏱ Scheduled Auto-Cleanup</strong><br />
Set a WP-Cron job to run hourly, twice daily, daily, or weekly. Configure your patterns and action once — the plugin keeps your comment section clean automatically.</p>
<p><strong>🤖 Honeypot Bot Protection</strong><br />
An invisible form field is added to your comment form. Real visitors never see or fill it. Bots that automatically fill every form field get rejected with a 403 error — silently, without affecting real users who never see or fill the field.</p>
<p><strong>📊 Comment Quality Scoring</strong><br />
Every new comment is automatically scored based on:<br />
– Number of external links (+2 per link)<br />
– Shortlink in author URL (+4 points)<br />
– Very short text under 15 characters (+2 points)<br />
– High symbol/punctuation density (+3 points)<br />
– Known spam keywords like “casino” or “viagra” (+3 points)<br />
– Excessive ALL-CAPS usage (+2 points)</p>
<p>If the score exceeds your threshold, the comment is held for review or marked as spam automatically.</p>
<p><strong>🚫 Gravatar Privacy (GDPR-friendly)</strong><br />
Optionally block all external requests to gravatar.com. When enabled, avatar images are suppressed completely, preventing third-party data transfers without visitor consent — helpful for GDPR / DSGVO compliance.</p>
<p><strong>💬 Disable Comments Globally</strong><br />
Close comments and trackbacks / pingbacks on all posts, pages, and custom post types in one click. Existing comments are not deleted — only new submissions are blocked. Disabling the toggle restores original comment status immediately without any database changes.</p>
<p><strong>🛡 WordPress Blocklist Integration</strong><br />
Add URL patterns directly to WordPress’s native disallowed_keys list — new comments containing those patterns are caught before they even reach the scanner.</p>
<p><strong>📋 Spam Domain Analysis</strong><br />
Automatically scans your existing spam and trash comments to surface the most common offending domains, so you always know what to block next.</p>
<h4>🎯 Who is this for?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Site owners who suddenly find hundreds of shortlink spam comments (you know who you are)</li>
<li>Bloggers who want passive spam protection without a heavy third-party service</li>
<li>Developers managing multiple WordPress sites who need efficient bulk moderation</li>
<li>Anyone frustrated by shortlinks like <code>bit.ly</code>, <code>shorturl.fm</code>, <code>cutt.ly</code> in their comments</li>
</ul>
<h4>❓ Why not just use Akismet?</h4>
<p>Akismet is great for real-time filtering — but it doesn’t help you <em>clean up</em> existing spam, and it doesn’t support pattern-based bulk actions. AOS Comment Spam Cleanup fills that gap. Use both.</p>
<h4>🔒 Privacy</h4>
<p>This plugin does not collect, transmit or store any personal data on external servers. All processing happens on your own server. No external API calls are made during normal operation.</p>
<h4>🌍 Translations</h4>
<p>Ships with English and German (<code>de_DE</code>). Help translate at <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">translate.wordpress.org</a>.</p>
<h4>👨‍💻 Developer</h4>
<p>Made by <a href="https://aos-digital.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">AOS Digital</a> — WordPress development from Germany.</p>


AOS Comment Spam Cleanup

Clean up comment spam by URL pattern, schedule auto-cleanups, block bots with a honeypot, and auto-score comment quality — all in one panel.

Freemius

Kofi Mokome

<p>Do you receive spams every day? have you installed a dozen plugins and you still get spammed? Well this may be the solution to your problem.<br />
This plugin filters messages submitted from contact form 7. You can decide to either filter messages based on restricted words found in the content of the message or filter based on the email of the person submitting the form.<br />
Filters will be extended to other contact form plugins with time.</p>
<h3>Supported Plugins</h3>
<ol>
<li>Contact form 7</li>
<li>WPForms</li>
</ol>
<p>Note: This is just an extension. This plugin is not affiliated with or endorsed by Contact Form 7 or WPForms.</p>
<h3>Pro Features</h3>
<p>Upgrade to the pro version from the Account submenu page to have access the following features:<br />
1. Unlimited words and emails: Add as many words and emails as you want<br />
2. Month Reports: Receive monthly spam reports directly to your email<br />
3. Spam Suggestion: Receive suggestions for new spam words and emails<br />
4. Blacklist/Whitelist forms: Decide which forms to validate or not to validate<br />
5. CSV Upload: Upload CSV with spam words/emails<br />
6. Add custom filters: Create your own custom filters</p>
<h3>PRIVACY</h3>
<p>We may collect ONLY the following information, if accepted by the site administrator:<br />
– The messages blocked by the plugin and<br />
– Words added to the plugin as spam<br />
This is used solely for the purpose of making improvements to the plugin.</p>
<p>In addition to the above, Freemius, a third party plugin used to manage plugin licences may also collect additional information, if the site administrator accepts.</p>
<h3>How to Contribute</h3>
<p>The source codes can be downloaded here <a href="https://github.com/kofimokome/cf7-message-filter" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a></p>


Message Filter for Contact Form 7

Filter messages submitted through contact form 7 based on words and/or emails listed as restricted.

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