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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.

GravityKit

<p>This Gravity Forms add-on blocks spam using a non-obtrusive anti-spam measure and can email a spam report summary.</p>
<h3>Spam blocking for Gravity Forms</h3>
<p>To get started, all you need to do is activate the plugin!</p>
<h3>Is the Gravity Forms honeypot field not working for you? 🍯 🐝</h3>
<p>Zero Spam is better than the Gravity Forms anti-spam honeypot field. If you’re getting spammed, try this plugin.</p>
<h3>Use this plugin instead of reCaptcha</h3>
<p><strong>reCaptcha is user-hostile!</strong> Use this instead! Users don’t need to click stoplights, crosswalks, or bicycles when you use this plugin to stop spam.</p>
<h3>Enable or disable filtering per form</h3>
<p>If you only want the plugin for specific forms, that’s possible! The plugin adds a simple “Prevent spam using Gravity Forms Zero Spam” setting to each form (requires Gravity Forms 2.5 or newer).</p>
<h3>Spam report emails</h3>
<p>Spam summary report emails are disabled by default. Once enabled, a spam summary that includes the number of entries per-form will be sent via email.</p>
<p>Choose whether you want to be notified after the number of entries reaches a threshold (e.g. 10 spam entries) or after a certain number of days (e.g. every week). If there are no spam entries, no report will be sent.</p>
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Gravity Forms Zero Spam

It helps way more than Gravity Forms' built in features, and it's nice to try invisible options before making users deal with Captcha quizzes. :)

Appreciate this plugin a lot!

Besides its simple approach, David Walsh’s “Zero Spam” technique, it works well.

Simple and effective

An amazingly simple yet successful strategy, this plugin captures pretty much all automated spam with little chance of false positives. No need to bother people with nasty CAPTCHAs, just install this plugin enjoy the ensuing peace.

Sends automated spam to the bit bucket

Enhance your Gravity Forms to include anti-spam measures originally based on the work of David Walsh's "Zero Spam" technique.

MP Spam Be Gone vs Gravity Forms Zero Spam