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:
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<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>
<li>JavaScript-Based Human Interaction Detection – Sets a verification token when mouse movement, scrolling, or touch interaction is detected.</li>
<li>(Option) Block Non-Japanese Comments – Blocks comments that do not contain Japanese characters (Hiragana, Katakana, or Han/Kanji), primarily targeting machine-translated or foreign spam.</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>
<li>Block No Japanese Comments – If enabled, this becomes the final check: Comments that contain Japanese characters (Hiragana, Katakana, or Kanji) will be automatically accepted after passing other security checks. Comments without Japanese characters will be blocked.</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.

gregbialowas

GB Anti-Spam for Contact Form 7 adds a lightweight security layer to Contact Form 7 forms without CAPTCHA.
Features: 
* Honeypot field protection 
* Timing-based bot detection 
* Request integrity token 
* IP rate limiting 
* Automatic injection (no manual form editing required)
Designed to be lightweight and compatible with caching and performance plugins.

GB Anti-Spam for Contact Form 7

Lightweight anti-spam protection for Contact Form 7 without CAPTCHA. More details: https://gregbialowas.com/anti-spam-cf7

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