Luigi Cavalieri

<p>RedBrick is able to block most of the automated spam comments a WordPress blog receives daily.</p>
<p>It is based upon a score system that ensures spam comments are blocked as soon as possible, so as to minimise the number of checks each comment must go through. When in doubt, RedBrick always holds the comment in the moderation queue. Comments identified as spam, however, never reach the database.</p>
<p>As a last resource in discerning the kind of comment under examination, RedBrick takes account also of the comment author’s history.</p>
<p><strong>The plugin is designed to work on low-to-medium traffic blogs.</strong></p>


RedBrick

Simple anti-spam plugin for WordPress blogs.

Jesin A

<p>Most email validators look for an <code>@</code> and a <code>.</code>(dot) some go further and blacklist certain domain names. But Mailgun’s Advanced email validation service goes deeper and looks for the existence of the domain name, presence of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX_record" rel="nofollow ugc">MX record</a> and the custom ESP(Email Service Provider) grammar.<br />
The grammar here is the rules defined by each email provider. For example, Yahoo Mail addresses can only contain letters, numbers, underscores, and one period.<br />
So <code>user.name.abc@yahoo.com</code> perfectly passes the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_email" rel="nofollow ugc">is_email()</a> function but can never exist as it contains more than one period. Such addresses can’t escape Mailgun’s Email validation.</p>
<h4>Why use Mailgun’s email validation service?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Performs the usual email syntax check.</li>
<li>Checks the existence of the email domain. So <code>user@some-random-characters.com</code> can’t escape.</li>
<li>Checks if the email domain has a MX record. So <code>anything@example.com</code> is caught.</li>
<li>Checks if the username complies with the grammar of its ESP (Email Service provider). Eg Gmail doesn’t allow usernames less than 6 characters and hyphens so <code>small@gmail.com</code> and <code>hyphen-user@gmail.com</code> can’t get away.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why use this plugin?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Integrates with the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_email" rel="nofollow ugc">is_email()</a> function of WordPress. So it works seamlessly with Contact Form 7, Jetpack/Grunion contact forms, WordPress registration form and any form which uses the <code>is_email()</code> function.</li>
<li>Kicks spam before it is inserted into the database</li>
<li>Ensures that the commenting process is uninterrupted even if Mailgun suffers a <a href="http://status.mailgun.com" rel="nofollow ugc">downtime</a></li>
<li>Works completely transparent, nothing changes in the frontend</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin requires a Mailgun Public API Key which can be obtained by <a href="https://mailgun.com/signup" rel="nofollow ugc">signing up at Mailgun</a>.</p>
<p>If you’re trying out this plugin on a local WAMP/LAMP/MAMP installation make sure your system is connected to the Internet for this plugin to contact Mailgun.</p>
<h4>Available Languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Serbo-Croatian by <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Borisa Djuraskovic</a></li>
<li>Spanish by <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Andrew Kurtis</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Further Reading</h4>
<p>Read about Mailgun’s email validation service.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://blog.mailgun.com/post/free-email-validation-api-for-web-forms/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://blog.mailgun.com/post/free-email-validation-api-for-web-forms/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.mailgun.com/post/weekly-product-update-improvements-to-email-validation-api/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://blog.mailgun.com/post/weekly-product-update-improvements-to-email-validation-api/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mailgun.github.io/validator-demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mailgun Address Validator demo</a> and its <a href="https://github.com/mailgun/validator-demo/tree/gh-pages" rel="nofollow ugc">source code</a></li>
<li>The <a href="https://websistent.com/wordpress-plugins/mailgun-email-validator/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mailgun Email Validator Plugin</a> official homepage.</li>
</ul>


Mailgun Email Validator

Implementing this plugin is straight forward and simple.

Works perfectly

Kick spam with a highly advanced email validation in comment forms, user registration and contact forms using Mailgun's Email validation service.

RedBrick vs Mailgun Email Validator