Stargazer

<h4>An easy and effective solution against Comment Spam</h4>
<p>WP-BlackCheck combines various ideas to protect your blog from spam.</p>
<h4>Fearures</h4>
<ul>
<li>Easy Installation</li>
<li>Block known spammers</li>
<li>Block Trackback/Pingback spam</li>
<li>No need to adjust default templates</li>
<li>Spam counter on the dashboard</li>
<li>Statistics</li>
</ul>
<h4>Languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>Albanian (thanks to Taulant Ceka – http://sem.al )</li>
<li>English</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>Slovakian (thanks to Black Cat Artworks – http://blackcatartworks.eu/ )</li>
</ul>
<p>If you want to see this plugin in your language, feel free to contact me or use <a href="https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/wpbc/resource/plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">transifex.net</a> to contribute.</p>
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://my.stargazer.at/" title="Authors blog" rel="nofollow ugc">Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.stargazer.at/" title="Bugtracker" rel="nofollow ugc">Bugtracker</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.twitter.com/ToeiRei" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>History</h4>
<p>Blocking spammers via htaccess or other server settings would do the job, but that would require<br />
to keep all the files in sync. So I decided to write a centralized solution that enables<br />
innocent users to remove their IP from the blacklist via removal request. As a blacklist gets queried<br />
way too often, I added some local detection of spammers to reduce load at my side.<br />
By now many additional features have been added, making this plugin a full grown anti-spam solution.</p>


WP-BlackCheck

WP-BlackCheck is an Anti-Spam Solution for Wordpress blocking spam using local detection and a centralized Blacklist Service.

pluginkollektiv

<p>Few users are familiar with the comment block list built into WordPress. Located in the WordPress admin area under “Settings”—“Discussion”, that block list for incoming comments accepts values (words) to identify spam by.</p>
<p>Additionally to plugins like <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/antispam-bee/" rel="ugc">Antispam Bee</a> in order to fight spam successfully a curated comment block list is recommendable. You can either update the list manually, or utilize a very detailed global <a href="https://github.com/splorp/wordpress-comment-blacklist" rel="nofollow ugc">comment block list</a> that gets updated on a regular basis.</p>
<p>Block List Updater has been developed to keep your comment block list in your WordPress installation up to speed with the curated global list on GitHub.</p>
<p>The plugin will check the global comment block list on GitHub multiple times a day. Whenever new anti-spam values have been added to the global list, Block List Updater will read the global list and update your WordPress database accordingly. While the check-up process will run several times a day, the plugin will only update the database when it detects an actual change of the global comment block list on GitHub.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<ul>
<li>Community support via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/blacklist-updater" rel="ugc">support forums on wordpress.org</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/blacklist-updater" 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/blacklist-updater" 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/blacklist-updater" 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>


Block List Updater

Automatic updating of the comment block list in WordPress with antispam keys from GitHub.

WP-BlackCheck vs Block List Updater