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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.

Sudar Muthu

This plugin is a quick way to delete all pending and spam comments. It’s useful for victims of spammer attacks.
After installing the plugin go to Comments -> Delete Pending Comments and follow the instructions to delete all the pending comments.
<h3>Credits</h3>
This plugin was originally developed by <a href="http://www.nkuttler.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Nicolas Kuttler</a> and he maintained it till June 24, 2020.
From June 24, 2020, <a href="https://sudarmuthu.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Sudar Muthu</a> took over the development and maintenance of the plugin.

Delete Pending Comments

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Apparenty no longer works...

'There's a plugin for everything', sure, but this one solved a problem I've been having for a LONG time... Thanks!

Easy and quick, almost as if nothing happened at all :)

AWESOME

A quick way to delete all pending and spam comments. Useful for victims of spammer attacks.

Honeypot Comments vs Delete Pending Comments