Kasuga

Tiny Comment Spam Blocker is a lightweight yet powerful plugin designed to protect your WordPress comments from spam. It employs five different techniques to detect and block unwanted comments:
<ol>
<li>Nonce Verification – Ensures that the comment form submission is genuine.</li>
<li>Submission Time Check – Blocks comments submitted too quickly to prevent bots.</li>
<li>Honeypot Field – Hidden field that traps automated spam bots.</li>
<li>User Agent Validation – Detects suspicious User-Agent strings and blocks them.</li>
<li>Forbidden Word Filtering – Blocks submissions containing words or phrases from a configurable list within the comment body, email address, or IP address.</li>
</ol>
These filters are applied in order: if a comment passes the first check, it proceeds to the second, and so on, until all checks are applied or the comment is blocked.
Additional features:
<ul>
<li>Option to log detected spam in a local log file (up to 1.0 MB).</li>
<li>Optional email notifications when spam is detected.</li>
<li>Easy settings page in the WordPress admin panel.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Settings</h3>
The plugin provides the following settings in the WordPress admin panel:
<ul>
<li>Enable Spam Protection – Toggle the spam protection on or off. When disabled, all anti-spam checks are skipped.</li>
<li>Save Spam Detection Log – Enable or disable logging of detected spam. Logs are saved in a local file up to 1.0 MB within the WordPress uploads directory.</li>
<li>Notification Email Address – Enter an email address to receive notifications when spam is detected. Leave blank to disable email notifications.</li>
<li>Minimum Submission Time (seconds) – Set the minimum allowed time between loading the comment form and submitting a comment. Comments submitted faster than this threshold are considered spam.</li>
<li>Forbidden Words List – Enter one forbidden word, phrase, or IP address per line. Submissions containing these entries in the comment body, email address, or IP address will be blocked. Case is insensitive.
<ul>
<li>Example: 
viagra 
online pharmacy 
spam@email.com 
164.138.205.72</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Arbitrary Section</h3>
This plugin is designed to be lightweight and fast, ensuring minimal impact on site performance while providing robust protection against comment spam.

Tiny Comment Spam Blocker

A simple and lightweight yet rock-solid plugin that blocks comment spam using multiple automatic detection methods.

WPExperts.io

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Add extra Spam Protection functionalities to your Contact Form 7 forms with CF7 Apps.
Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular form plugins for WordPress, but it lacks many advanced features that modern websites need. CF7 Apps adds extra Spam Protection functionalities to your Contact Form 7 forms, introducing honeypot and hCaptcha options.
👉 Get Support: <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7-honeypot/" rel="ugc">Click Here</a> 
👉 Check out the <a href="https://cf7apps.com/docs/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=documentation" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a>
<h3>What CF7 Apps Can Do for You ?</h3>
Right out of the box, CF7 Apps includes:
✅ Honeypot App 
✅ hCaptcha App 
✅ Database Entries App 
✅ Redirection App 
💡 <a href="https://cf7apps.com/submit-idea/?utm_source=wp_org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=suggest_a_feature" rel="nofollow ugc">Suggest a Feature</a>
And that’s just the beginning.
🌟 Save and Manage CF7 Form Submissions 
The Entries Database App stores all Contact Form 7 submissions directly to your WordPress database. Easily filter entries by form or date, view individual CF7 submissions, and export or delete them when needed. This ensures you never lose important leads or messages, even if emails fail to deliver.
🌟 Add a Honeypot Field to Prevent Spam
Our Honeypot Contact Form 7 extension creates a hidden field inside your Contact Form 7 forms. Real users never see it, but bots do—and that’s how the bots fall for the trap. It blocks automated spam before it even hits your inbox.
🌟 Add hCaptcha to Contact Form 7
Protect your forms from spam bots using hCaptcha, a privacy-friendly alternative to Google reCAPTCHA. This extension integrates directly with CF7 and works instantly after setup. No coding is required, and no extra plugins are needed. Just set up your site keys and you’re done.
NOTE: 
The best thing is that both features work independently. You can run them alone or together based on your site’s needs.
<h3>Real Use Cases for CF7 Apps</h3>
With the CF7 Apps, you can do the following: 
 ✔️ Trap bots using a honeypot field without affecting users 
 ✔️ Add hCaptcha to Contact Form 7 for privacy-first anti-spam 
 ✔️ Store and manage Contact Form 7 entries directly in WordPress
<h3>Why Should You Install CF7 Apps?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Works exclusively with Contact Form 7</li>
<li>Modular design — activate only the features you need</li>
<li>Lightweight — no unnecessary code or bloat</li>
<li>Built for form security, user control, and advanced customization</li>
<li>Continuously updated with new apps and requested features</li>
</ul>
We built CF7 Apps for users who want more power without abandoning the simplicity of Contact Form 7.
<h3>Contribute or Report Issues</h3>
Do you have a feature request or bug to report? Contact us via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7-honeypot" rel="ugc">official Support Channel.</a>

CF7 Apps – [Honeypot and hCAPTCHA for Contact Form 7]

Its not working. I did everything i can on the youtube every possible solution but its not working still sending.

Hi I think i found out that your plugin has a conflict to my https://wordpress.org/plugins/multiline-files-for-contact-form-7/ if this is activated.

its not working

didn't help to prevent attacker sending spam a lot.
just not sending the form when honeypot is filled is too much of information for an attacker.

Lots of Spam


It worked better before, now the attackers go past it and there is a lot of spam.


Before it was better


This used to be a simple, free, honeypot plugin for CF7It has been taken over and now it is a useless piece of bloatware.


I feel betrayed


I've been using this plugin for several years and even published a tutorial in French (Comment configurer Honeypot for Contact Form 7) on my own website to help people set it up right.



I really liked the way it was lightweight, efficient, and non-invasive. What a pity to discover in an update: yet another totally useless dashboard.



I understand the need for upsells to fund the development process, I really do. But it pisses me off to see this enshitification something that was high-quality before.



It really makes people want to fork the plugin to clean it up.



Please bring us back the quality plugin you made, and stop with the useless option pages for pity's sake.


yet another totally useless dashboard

Add hCaptcha, Honeypot and Redirection to Contact Form 7 with CF7 Apps. Improve form security, lightweight, and no unnecessary code.

Tiny Comment Spam Blocker vs CF7 Apps – [Honeypot and hCAPTCHA for Contact Form 7]