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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.

Gulshan Kumar

<p>The fastest and GDPR compliant Anti-Spam plugin to prevent bot spam in the <strong>Default Commenting System</strong> of WordPress.</p>
<h3>Important</h3>
<ul>
<li>Please clear page cache after plugin activation.</li>
<li>Only for default commenting system. Not for AMP.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>100% GDPR Compliant.</li>
<li>Captcha-Free solution.</li>
<li>Requires no settings.</li>
<li>Automatic. No need of false-positive comment moderation.</li>
<li>Compatible with all page caching and performance optimization plugins.</li>
<li>Fastest ever. A tiny inline JavaScript in just ~200 bytes does all magic.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How does it work?</h4>
<p>To prevent spam comments plugin blocks the default action path (wp-comments-post.php) for bots and make it accessible over unique hash query string when a visitor scroll to leave a comment. This way it prevents automated spam comment done by bots.</p>
<p><strong>Video Demonstration</strong></p>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uwIfk08GSwk?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span><br />
Watch on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwIfk08GSwk" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube</a></p>
<h3>Let’s support each other 🙏</h3>
<ul>
<li>Please Upvote Forget Spam Comment plugin at <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/forget-spam-comment#forget-spam-comment" rel="nofollow ugc">Product Hunt</a></li>
<li>You can <a href="https://www.gulshankumar.net/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact me</a> to report any issues. I’d be happy to assist.</li>
</ul>


Forget Spam Comment


This is the best ultra-simple (and free) way to stop comment spam, thanks to the method it uses. Alternative effective solutions are more complicated and involve webserver configuration or WAF and CAPTCHA services. Other plugins simply fail to address the root cause of comment spam. This is the one to use.


Simply the Best

The ultimate solution to stop spam comments in the default commenting system of WordPress

Honeypot Comments vs Forget Spam Comment