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<p>MP Spam Be Gone is the simplest, most effective Spam blocker without difficult CAPTCHA responses needed by the user. This plugin was inspired by some of the best Anti-Spam plugins available on WordPress.</p>
<p>Inspirations:<br />
Spam Free WordPress by Todd Lahman, LLC<br />
Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin by Andy Bailey<br />
Simple Trackback Validation with Topsy Blocker by Tobias Koelligan</p>
<p>This plugin has aspects from all of the above mentioned plugins to form the most complete and dead simple Anti Spam plugin on WordPress. This plugin doesn’t write anything to your database while preventing comment spam and trackback spam.</p>
<p>From Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin, I used the concept of having a checkbox display to the user in order to prevent automated Spam. To me this is the best way (and least intrusive) to completely prevent automated spam from ever even being written to the database in the spam que. It is physically impossible to get a false positive, since you either checked the button or not. The flaw with this plugin is that it does not work with Javascript disabled.</p>
<p>To combat that flaw, I use the copy and paste password fields from the Spam Free WordPress plugin. These fields are in a <code><noscript></code> tag, and only appear if Javascript is disabled. Unlike, the Spam Free WordPress plugin, these passwords are generated on the fly and never stored in the database.</p>
<p>These plugins primarily stop comment spam. In order to stop trackback spam, I added the IP address check, URL check, and Topsy check functions from Simple Trackback Validation with Topsy Blocker. If a trackback is identified as spam because of the IP address or Topsy, it is deleted and never written to the database. If a trackback is identified as spam because of the URL, it is marked as spam and sent to the Spam que. The reason that these are not automatically deleted, is because it is possible that the referring page is using a shortlink and therefore the full URL would not appear on the page in the first place.</p>
<p>When combined, this plugin will stop all automated spam and trackbacks.</p>
<p>It is intended to replace the above plugins.</p>
<p>You can’t find a plugin simpler than this – set it and forget it. No options = no modifications to the database.</p>


MP Spam Be Gone

MP Spam Be Gone is the simplest, most effective Spam blocker.

Matthias Pfefferle

Bernhard Kau

Pascal Birchler

Simon Kraft

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Torsten Landsiedel

Florian Brinkmann

Alain Schlesser

<p>Say Goodbye to comment spam on your WordPress blog or website. <em>Antispam Bee</em> blocks spam comments and trackbacks effectively, without captchas and without sending personal information to third party services. It is free of charge, ad-free and 100% GDPR compliant.</p>
<h3>Feature/Settings Overview</h3>
<ul>
<li>Trust approved commenters.</li>
<li>Trust commenters with a Gravatar.</li>
<li>Consider the comment time.</li>
<li>Allow comments only in a certain language.</li>
<li>Block or allow commenters from certain countries.</li>
<li>Treat BBCode links as spam.</li>
<li>Use regular expressions.</li>
<li>Search local spam database for commenters previously marked as spammers.</li>
<li>Notify admins by e-mail about incoming spam.</li>
<li>Delete existing spam after n days.</li>
<li>Limit approval to comments/pings (will delete other comment types).</li>
<li>Select spam indicators to send comments to deletion directly.</li>
<li>Optionally exclude trackbacks and pingbacks from spam detection.</li>
<li>Optionally spam-check comment forms on archive pages.</li>
<li>Display spam statistics on the dashboard, including daily updates of spam detection rate and a total of blocked spam comments.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>Community support via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/antispam-bee" rel="ugc">support forums on wordpress.org</a></li>
<li>Read <a href="https://antispambee.pluginkollektiv.org/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">the documentation</a></li>
<li>We don’t handle support via e-mail, Twitter, GitHub issues etc.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contribute</h3>
<ul>
<li>Active development of this plugin is handled <a href="https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/antispam-bee" 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/antispam-bee" 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/antispam-bee" rel="nofollow ugc">on WordPress Translate</a>.</li>
</ul>
<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>
</ul>


Antispam Bee


Using it since years and had no spam in my blog ever. Simple, clean, works.


Best Antispam Plugin


I've tested this plugin and seems to working very well. Most spam comments are gone, some of them (just a little) are able to avoid spam filters.



There is something need to be fixed and I'm already posted in support forum. I hope that it will be fixed soon.


Very good spam filter plugin.


Works quite well without calling out to a remote service, and doesn't require your visitors to be using JavaScript. (Seriously, I posted a test comment using Dillo and it showed up in the moderation queue!) No need to deal with API keys or licensing.



There are some optional tactics that will call a remote service for things like language identification, but so far it's doing the job fine without them!



The only problem I've had with it is that it only acts on comments, not on other features like contact forms.


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