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No more need for captchas, making your readers jump through hoops in order to comment. Instead, activate this plugin and let a simple hidden honeypot input field catch spam bots, which will fill out all fields in the form (even our hidden honeypot field). If that honeypot field isn’t empty, the comment won’t process, effectively nuking most spam comments.
I also made sure that the id of the field is utilizing a random string of letters and numbers every time the page is loaded (ie: 34rscsDW37g8gf) so that spam bots can’t target a specific id name in order to bypass it, making it harder for the bots to win.
Installation is dead simple, just activate the plugin and you’re done. No other steps required on your end, the plugin handles everything.
<h3>Additional info</h3>
The basic structure of this plugin was cloned from the <a href="https://github.com/tommcfarlin/WordPress-Plugin-Boilerplate" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress-Plugin-Boilerplate</a> project.
This plugin supports the <a href="https://github.com/afragen/github-updater" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Updater</a> plugin, so if you install that, this plugin becomes automatically updateable direct from GitHub. Any submission to WP.org repo will make this redundant.

Honeypot Comments

Plugin to stop most comment spam by adding in a simple honeypot for spam bots to get caught in.

Pippin Williamson

Modifies the Empty Spam action in WordPress to process the spam deletion in batches, allowing you to delete thousands or even hundreds of thousands of spam comments at once without killing your server.
Have you found a bug or have a suggestion or improvement you’d like to submit? This plugin is available on <a href="https://github.com/pippinsplugins/batch-comment-spam-deletion" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a> and pull requests are welcome!

Batch Comment Spam Deletion

Modifies the Empty Spam action in WordPress to process the spam deletion in batches instead of all at once.

Honeypot Comments vs Batch Comment Spam Deletion