Samir Shah

This plugin has two modes – basic and Akismet-enhanced.
Basic mode: the plugin will serve a CAPTCHA to all commenters that aren’t logged in and don’t have a previously approved comment. Repeat commenters will never see a CAPTCHA.
Akismet-enhanced mode (recommended): the plugin will serve a CAPTCHA only if Akismet identifies a comment as spam (much less frequently than the basic mode). Just install an activate <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/" rel="ugc">Akismet</a> to enable this mode.
Note that a CAPTCHA will only appear after a comment is submitted. When a commenter is served a CAPTCHA:
<ul>
<li>If they fail, then the comment will be automatically discarded or trashed (and won’t clutter up your spam queue).</li>
<li>If they pass, it will be allowed into the spam queue (or approved, if you so choose). This means that any false positives from Akismet will be easily identified without you having to trawl through all the spam comments manually.</li>
</ul>
Most genuine commenters will be able to comment on your site hassle-free, without ever seeing a CAPTCHA.
The default CAPTCHA is a simple text-based test. There is also the option to use <a href="http://www.google.com/recaptcha" rel="nofollow ugc">reCAPTCHA</a> if you want something more robust (free API key required). You can also style the CAPTCHA page to fit with your own WordPress theme.
If you come across any bugs or have suggestions, please use the plugin support forum or <a href="http://rayofsolaris.net/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">email me</a>. I can’t fix it if I don’t know it’s broken! Please check the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-conditional-captcha/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQs</a> for common issues.
Thanks to the following people for contributing translations of this plugin: Belorussian – <a href="http://pc.de" rel="nofollow ugc">Marcis G</a>, Brazilian Portuguese – Stefano, Czech – <a href="http://trumplin.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ted</a>, Danish – Jesper, Dutch – <a href="http://wpwebshop.com/books/" rel="nofollow ugc">Rene</a>, Estonian – <a href="http://www.itransition.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Itransition</a>, Finnish – Jani, French – <a href="http://android-software.fr" rel="nofollow ugc">Laurent</a>, German – <a href="http://jochenpreusche.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Jochen</a>, Hindi – <a href="http://outshinesolutions.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Outshine Solutions</a>, Hungarian – <a href="http://www.televizio.sk" rel="nofollow ugc">Gyula</a>, Italian – <a href="http://gidibao.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Gianni</a>, Lithuanian – Mantas, Polish – <a href="http://www.spin.siedlce.pl" rel="nofollow ugc">Pawel</a>, Romanian – <a href="http://simplu.mixnet.ro" rel="nofollow ugc">Lotus</a>, Russian – <a href="http://www.everycloudtech.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ivanka</a>, Spanish – <a href="http://www.reinventia.net" rel="nofollow ugc">Reinventia</a>, Swedish – <a href="http://www.umu.se" rel="nofollow ugc">Hugo</a>, Turkish – Tony, Ukranian – <a href="http://www.everycloudtech.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ivanka</a>. Some of these translations are a bit out of date – updates welcome!

Conditional CAPTCHA

Asks commenters to complete a simple CAPTCHA if they don't have a previously approved comment, or if Akismet thinks their comment is spam.

OneOfOne

This plugin plugin blocks spam in comments automatically, without requiring any end-user input or any javascript.
<ul>
<li>As of version 0.7.7 there’s an option to add an extra javascript check, it’s off by default.</li>
</ul>
In a way it’s similar to webvitaly’s <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/anti-spam/" rel="ugc">Anti-Spam</a> however this doesn’t require the user to enter anything at all.
The comment gets marked as spam if any of the following rules are true :
<ul>
<li>If the comment is a trackback.</li>
<li>If the time between loading the page and commenting is less than 10 seconds.</li>
<li>If the Session variable specific to this form is not set.</li>
<li>If the hidden input field have a different value than “-“.</li>
<li>If the comment includes more than 3 urls.</li>
<li>If the referer isn’t set properly.</li>
</ul>
Once the comment gets flagged as spam, and if the auto delete option isn’t set, a json string will be appended to it to show why it was marked, for example :
<pre><code>{ "is-trackback": 0, "no-session-token": 0, "hidden-field": 1, "number-of-urls": 5, "referer": 0, "too-fast": 1.902538061142 } </code></pre>
Translates to :
<ol>
<li>They changed the hidden input field.</li>
<li>They Had 5 URLs in the comment.</li>
<li>It Took 1.9 seconds to submit the comment since the page was loaded.</li>
</ol>
Also note that the time calculations are per-form, so there are no false-positives if the user has multiple pages open on the site and commented on 2 of them in a short period of time.
Feel free to fork it and submit patches / fixes on <a href="https://github.com/OneOfOne/ooo-nospam" rel="nofollow ugc">github</a>

OneOfOne’s NoSpam

Extremely simple, 0 configuration and 0 user/admin-interaction anti-spam plugin.

Conditional CAPTCHA vs OneOfOne’s NoSpam