tomroyal

<p>This is a simple plugin designed to cut down on automated spam registrations and the emails they produce.</p>
<p>The idea is simple: in order to register, users have to answer a question that’s simple for anyone reading your blog, but impossible for a script being run by a spammer.</p>
<p>To install, simply copy stop_registration_spam.php to your Plugins directory. Enable the plugin and an options page will appear under the WordPress Settings menu.</p>
<p>In the settings page, enter your question (keep it short), answer (ideally very short) and a hint to display if the user gets it wrong. Save these and they’ll be used for new registrations.</p>
<p>I’ve been using this plugin for a few months, and it cut spam from dozens a day to none at all. Hope you find it useful. Questions etc welcome on my blog:</p>
<p>http://www.tomroyal.com/blog/2012/04/09/stop-wordpress-registration-spam/</p>
<p>Tom</p>


Stop Registration Spam

Stops spammy automated user registrations using a custom question.

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Torsten Landsiedel

Florian Brinkmann

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<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.


Privacy-friendly spam filter


Simple to set up and use. Catches all the spam and deletes it before I get a chance to see it. Might miss one or two pieces a week, but that's still better than JetPack and it preserves my users' privacy.


Works better than JetPack

Sophisticated antispam plugin for effective daily comment and trackback spam-fighting. Built with data protection and privacy in mind.

Stop Registration Spam vs Antispam Bee