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<p>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.</p>
<p>I also made sure that the <strong>id</strong> of the field is utilizing a random string of letters and numbers every time the page is loaded (ie: <em>34rscsDW37g8gf</em>) so that spam bots can’t target a specific id name in order to bypass it, making it harder for the bots to win.</p>
<p>Installation is dead simple, just activate the plugin and you’re done. No other steps required on your end, the plugin handles everything.</p>
<h3>Additional info</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>


Honeypot Comments

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

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<p>Few users are familiar with the comment block list built into WordPress. Located in the WordPress admin area under “Settings”—“Discussion”, that block list for incoming comments accepts values (words) to identify spam by.</p>
<p>Additionally to plugins like <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/antispam-bee/" rel="ugc">Antispam Bee</a> in order to fight spam successfully a curated comment block list is recommendable. You can either update the list manually, or utilize a very detailed global <a href="https://github.com/splorp/wordpress-comment-blacklist" rel="nofollow ugc">comment block list</a> that gets updated on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Block List Updater has been developed to keep your comment block list in your WordPress installation up to speed with the curated global list on GitHub.</p>
<p>The plugin will check the global comment block list on GitHub multiple times a day. Whenever new anti-spam values have been added to the global list, Block List Updater will read the global list and update your WordPress database accordingly. While the check-up process will run several times a day, the plugin will only update the database when it detects an actual change of the global comment block list on GitHub.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>Community support via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/blacklist-updater" rel="ugc">support forums on wordpress.org</a></li>
<li>We don’t handle support via e-mail, Twitter, GitHub issues etc.</li>
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<h3>Contribute</h3>
<ul>
<li>Active development of this plugin is handled <a href="https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/blacklist-updater" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>.</li>
<li>Pull requests for documented bugs are highly appreciated.</li>
<li>If you think you’ve found a bug (e.g. you’re experiencing unexpected behavior), please post at the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/blacklist-updater" rel="ugc">support forums</a> first.</li>
<li>If you want to help us translate this plugin you can do so <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/blacklist-updater" rel="nofollow ugc">on WordPress Translate</a>.</li>
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<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Author: <a href="https://sergejmueller.github.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Sergej Müller</a></li>
<li>Maintainers: <a href="https://pluginkollektiv.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">pluginkollektiv</a></li>
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Block List Updater

Automatic updating of the comment block list in WordPress with antispam keys from GitHub.

Honeypot Comments vs Block List Updater