Jake Jackson

<p>If you like total control of the comments on your WordPress blog without having any extra overheads (like you get with 3rd party spam prevention software) then this is a great tool for you.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatically placed IP address on comments blacklist if administrator marks comment as spam</li>
<li>Will remove IP address from comments blacklist if spam item is marked as ‘not spam’</li>
<li>When activated, will review all spam comments and place the spammers IP address on the comments blacklist.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p><a href="http://www.blueliquiddesigns.com.au/index.php/wp-automatic-spam-blacklister/" rel="nofollow ugc">All support is provided through the plugin developer’s website</a>.</p>


WP Spam Blacklister

The WP Spam Blacklister is a simple spam-prevention plugin that adds the IP address of a marked spam post on Wordpress' comments blacklist.

jamiewilson

<p>Gatekeeper allows administrators to take a WordPress site offline quickly and easily while leaving it fully accessible to administrators and other authorized users. Site visitors will be shown or redirected to a specified offline page. An optional blacklist can be used for permanent bans.</p>
<p>** Features **</p>
<ul>
<li>Visitors can either be redirected to an existing non-WordPress offline page (using http 302 temporary redirect) or WordPress pages can be temporarily replaced with the offline page.</li>
<li>Logged in admins can be whitelisted</li>
<li>The current admin’s IP address can be automatically whitelisted</li>
<li>An IP-based whitelist that can accept specific IP addresses, wildcards, and ranges</li>
<li>A basic IP-based blacklist that redirects blacklisted IPs to a specified page (not to be used for security)</li>
<li>A notifier that appears on administrator pages when the site is offline</li>
</ul>


Gatekeeper

Gatekeeper allows administrators to take a WordPress site offline while leaving it accessible to authorized users for maintenance, testing, etc.

WP Spam Blacklister vs Gatekeeper