Gerry Manzari

Manzari Anti-Spam Shield protects your WordPress comment forms from automated spam using multiple layers of defense:
<ul>
<li>🔒 Hidden honeypot field to catch bots</li>
<li>⏱️ Submission timing detection to block fast spam bots</li>
<li>🧠 Keyword blocking for suspicious phrases</li>
<li>✅ Optional Google reCAPTCHA v2 Checkbox</li>
<li>📊 Dashboard widget showing total spam blocked</li>
</ul>
Lightweight, fast, and privacy-friendly — no unnecessary external calls (unless you enable reCAPTCHA). 
Built for performance, simplicity, and full WordPress.org compliance.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin uses Google reCAPTCHA v2 to help protect comment forms from automated spam.
When reCAPTCHA is enabled, the plugin loads the Google reCAPTCHA script from: 
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js
When a comment form is submitted, the plugin sends the following data to Google for verification: 
• The reCAPTCHA response token 
• The user’s IP address 
• Your site’s secret key
This verification request is sent to: 
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify
Google reCAPTCHA is provided by Google LLC. 
Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms 
Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

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A lightweight anti-spam plugin using honeypot, timing, keyword, and reCAPTCHA v2 Checkbox protection. Blocks bots silently while keeping UX clean.

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Increase security and protect against bots, spammers and hackers. Cloudflare Turnstile is a friendly, free CAPTCHA replacement that delivers a frustration-free experience to website visitors.
<h4>USE OF 3RD PARTY SERVICES</h4>
VisualWP Cloudflare Turnstile relies on <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare Turnstile</a>, a 3rd party API that connects to Cloudflare servers to generate the anti-spam field that appears on the WordPress login form, register form, comment form and any Ninja Form that the field is manually added to. The anti-spam check will not work if website traffic to Cloudflare servers is blocked or impeded. Cloudflare has to look at some session data (like headers, user agent, and browser characteristics) to validate users without challenging them. Learn more by visiting Cloudflare <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> and <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a>
<a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/" rel="nofollow ugc">Login or Register on Cloudflare</a> to generate your site key, secret key and setup approved domains. Customers are limited to 1 million siteverify calls per month during the open beta or can upgrade to <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/get-started/bm-subscription/" rel="nofollow ugc">Enterprise Bot Management</a> via Cloudflare website for cases exceeding the free tier.
<h4>CLOUDFLARE TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY</h4>
Terms of Service: <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/</a> 
Privacy Policy: <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/</a>

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