Automattic

Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

<p>This plugin adds a stylesheet or image to your blog’s html source code. When a browser loads that stylesheet or image a cookie is dropped. If that user then leaves a comment the cookie is checked. If it doesn’t exist the comment is marked as spam.<br />
The plugin can also check how long it took a user to enter a comment. If it’s too fast it’s probably a spam bot. How fast can a legitimate user enter their name, email, web address and enter a well thought out comment?</p>
<p>For the adventurous, add these lines to your .htaccess and it will block spam attempts before they ever get to WordPress. Replace the Xs with the cookie that was set in your browser after viewing your blog. You can also find the cookie value by examining the page source code and looking for “css.php?k=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX”. Make sure the lines go above the standard WordPress rules.</p>
<pre><code>    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.*$
    RewriteRule ^wp-comments-post.php - [F,L]
</code></pre>
<p>If you use WordPress MU, replace wp-comments-post.php above with wp-signup.php to block spam signups.</p>
<pre><code>    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.*$
    RewriteRule ^wp-signup.php - [F,L]
</code></pre>


Cookies for Comments

If you don't use any other spam filter plugins, then you can rely on this to stop spam comments for sure!

Must have, if you don't use any other spam filters!

I'd been getting a dozen spams a day on two of my sites. We installed "Stop Spam Comments" on one and "Cookies for Comments" on the other. Both worked perfectly. No more spam. Thanks!



very easy and no more spam!

Sets a cookie on a random URL that is then checked when a comment is posted. If the cookie is missing the comment is marked as spam.

Nilo Velez

<p>Machete is a simple suite of tools that solves common WordPress annoyances using as few resources as possible. Machete doesn’t cover every single use case, but there is a huge amount of sites that would require less plugins if they used Machete.</p>
<p>All Machete tools have two things in common: they solve problems faced by many web developers and they do it using as few server resources as possible.</p>
<p>So far, Machete includes the following tools:</p>
<h4>WordPress Optimization</h4>
<p>WordPress places a lot of code inside the <code><head></code> tag just to keep backward compatibility or to enable optional features. You can disable most of it and save some time from each page request while making your installation safer.</p>
<h4>Cookies & GDPR Warning</h4>
<p>We know you hate cookie warning bars. Well, this is the least hateable cookie bar you’ll find. It is really light, doesn’t affect your PageSpeed score and plays well with static cache plugins.</p>
<h4>Analytics and custom code</h4>
<p>You don’t need a zillion plugins to perform easy tasks like inserting a verification meta tag (Google Search Console, Bing, Pinterest), a json-ld snippet or a custom stylesheet (Google Fonts, Print Styles, accessibility tweaks…).</p>
<p>The Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager tracking codes are PageSpeed optimized, GPDR friendly.</p>
<h4>Maintenance mode</h4>
<p>The maintenance mode that ships with WordPress is just a basic lock-down that is activated whenever you do a major update. With machete Maintenance Mode you can hide your unfinished page from visitors and search engines, give your clients a secure temporary access and lock your site without affecting your SEO.</p>
<h4>Post & Page cloner</h4>
<p>Adds a “duplicate” link to post, page and most post types lists. Also adds “copy to new draft” function to the post editor.</p>
<h4>Social Sharing Buttons</h4>
<p>Social sharing done the Machete way. The icons are made as a custom webfont embedded in a minified CSS file that only weighs 5.8KB. The sharing actions use each platform’s native share URL.</p>
<h4>WooCommerce Utils</h4>
<p>WooCommerce was designed to work for every possible use case, but that often leads to unexpected behavior. These simple fixes can improve the WooCommerce user experience by making it behave as clients expect.</p>


Machete

Me gusta porque hace que los sitios de mis clientes vuelen. Sencillamente, ¡imprescindible!

¡Muy bueno!

💪 Simple, easy to configure, just works!

This plugin has a great compilation of useful settings and commonly used tools, I use it in almost every web.

Great companion plugin

This is a must-use plugin. I activate it almost all my WordPress sites.
Try it and you will need it in all your WordPress sites.

Very useful tools. Thank you for the plugin

Essential

Machete is a lean and simple suite of tools that solve common WordPress annoyances: cookie bar, tracking codes, header cleanup, social sharing

Cookies for Comments vs Machete