An exceptionally powerful and user-friendly WordPress anti-spam plugin that eliminates comment spam, contact form spam, registration spam, trackback spam, pingback spam, and every other type of WordPr...

ess spam. The All-in-One Anti-Spam Plugin for WordPress - Without CAPTCHAs Leading edge WordPress spam protection, with NO CAPTCHAs, challenge questions or other inconvenience to site visitors. This plugin works silently in the background, and simply makes WordPress spam disappear. Supports: Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, JetPack Contact Forms & Comments, BuddyPress, bbPress, WooCommerce, s2Member, WP-Members, Mailchimp, Fast Secure Contact Form, Formidable Forms, almost all WordPress forms, and almost all WordPress registration forms. Automatically! NEED HELP? Plugin Documentation | Troubleshooting Guide | FAQs | Support Requests How It Works Most of the spam hitting your site originates from bots, but quite a bit comes from humans too. This plugin works like a firewall to ensure that your commenters are in fact, human, and that those humans aren't spamming you. Two Layers of Spam Blocking There are two layers of leading edge anti-spam protection that work together to block both automated (spambots) and human spam: The JavaScript/Cookies Anti-Spam Layer The Algorithmic Anti-Spam Layer The first anti-spam layer uses a dynamic combination of JavaScript and cookies to weed out the humans from spambots, preventing 100% of automated spam from ever getting to your site. Even if bot authors could engineer a way to break through the JavaScript/Cookies Anti-Spam Layer, the Algorithmic Anti-Spam Layer would still stop almost all of the spam that the JavaScript Layer blocks, and provides close to a fully redundant backstop. This JavaScript Anti-Spam Layer utilizes multiple randomly generated keys, and is algorithmically enhanced to ensure that spambots won't beat it. The powerful Algorithmic Anti-Spam Layer consists of over 100 advanced filters, and eliminates trackback spam and most human spam as well. And, it does all that without hindering legitimate comments, trackbacks, contact forms, or registrations. No More Wasted Time Sifting Through the Comment Spam Queue This type of solution works invisibly in the background, with no inconveniences. You won't have to waste valuable time sifting through a spam queue any more, because there won't be anything there. WP-SpamShield is different from other anti-spam plugins in that it BLOCKS spam at the front door of your site and doesn't allow it into the WordPress database at all. Many other anti-spam plugins simply label a comment as spam, leaving you to sort through a spam queue, which wastes your valuable time. WP-SpamShield will give you back your time! Improves User-Friendliness of Your Website If you want to improve the user-friendliness of your site, this is THE anti-spam plugin you want. After all, why should your users have to prove they are human? Since your users won't be inconvenienced by outdated and frustrating anti-spam methods, you will provide a smoother, trouble-free experience for your website users, which leads to improved readership, ad revenue, sales, or other types of conversion, and therefore greater success for your website. Improves Security Not allowing spam into the database improves security by potentially preventing SQL injection, DDoS, and XSS exploit attacks through automated spam comment submissions. WP-SpamShield fixes the security issues inherent to Pingbacks, and prevents Pingback-based DDoS attacks. As part of the Miscellaneous Form Spam Protection, the plugin protects against XML-RPC brute force amplification attacks. The plugin also has several other features that improve security, such as blocking certain potentially dangerous URLs in spam comment submissions, and limiting comment size to 15kb. (15kb of text is roughly the equivalent of 3 typed pages in Microsoft Word, single-spaced, so that's more than enough for even the longest of comments.) See this blog post for more info. Helps Improve Overall Website Performance The plugin helps keep your WordPress database slimmer and more efficient (keeping your site running faster in the long term) by not allowing the thousands upon thousands of spam comments into it, which could bloat the database and potentially corrupt it. Keeping your database lean is extremely important, because bloated databases result in much longer query times and increased server load, slowing down a site dramatically even for simple functions. If website performance is important to you, then you definitely want an anti-spam plugin like WP-SpamShield instead of a plugin that uses a spam queue. See this FAQ for more detailed info. ZERO False Positives It does all this with ZERO false positives, because of the method used to block spam. Notice we didn't say a "low false positive rate" - we said ZERO false positives. If a comment/contact form/registration gets blocked as spam, the user is given instant feedback and has a chance to correct their comment/contact form/registration/etc and try again, which means there cannot be false positives. This leads to fewer frustrated website visitors, and less work for you. We are committed to keeping the promise of zero false positives. 100% Pingback/Trackback Validation and Anti-Spam The trackback validation contains a filter that compares the client IP address of the incoming trackbacks and pingbacks against the IP address of the server where the link is supposedly coming from. If they don't come from the same server, then it is guaranteed spam, without fail. This alone eliminates more than 99.99% of trackback & pingback spam. Trackback spammers don't send spam out from the same server where their clients' websites reside. There are algorithmic anti-spam filters in place to ensure 100% trackback/pingback spam blocking. You can be confident that only legitimate trackbacks and pingbacks will get through. Includes a Spam-Free Contact Form, and Anti-Spam for Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, JetPack Contact Forms, and Most Other Forms Includes drop-in spam-free contact form, with easy one-click installation. Easy to use - no configuration necessary, but you can configure it if you like. (See Installation for info.) WP-SpamShield also includes automatic anti-spam protection for Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, JetPack Contact Forms, Fast Secure Contact Forms, Formidable Forms, and more. (You don't have to do a thing...just add your Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, JetPack Contact Forms, or other forms to your site, and they will automatically be protected.) It will automatically protect most forms on your WordPress site from automated spam, even if they are not listed here. WordPress Registration Anti-Spam The plugin also includes powerful protection from user registration spam. Once you install WP-SpamShield, you don't have to worry about bots or spammy users signing up any more. (Note: This protects almost all registration forms, including the WordPress default registration form, and registration forms for bbPress, BuddyPress, WooCommerce, s2Member, WP-Members, and many more. See this FAQ for more info. Stops Email Harvesters The plugin has a feature to thwart email harvesting bots and keep them from scraping your site for email addresses. (Which helps reduce spam in your email inbox.) The plugin automatically obfuscates plain text email addresses and mailto links in your website content by encoding them into HTML entities (hexadecimal and decimal character codes that look like gibberish to harvesters, but render the email addresses perfectly in a browser). It protects email addresses on pages, posts, comments, excerpts, and text widgets. Why Not Just Use a CAPTCHA-Based Anti-Spam Method? The concept of using a CAPTCHA as an anti-spam solution in this modern day and age is flawed for several reasons: It's an outdated concept that has far outlived its usefulness, and was originally developed before user-friendliness was a high priority. It goes in the exact opposite direction of user-friendly design principles. Think about it. Users of your website have to type in numbers and letters obscured by squiggly lines and symbols, only to be told they are wrong several times, even after typing in the correct answer. This is proven to hurt website business and revenue because of the negative feelings it causes. People simply don't like CAPTCHAs. It is not the user's responsibility to separate humans from bots, or to stop spam; it's the web developer's responsibility. Even if the CAPTCHA is simple, and all the user has to do is click a button, it is still annoying and unnecessary. It's one extra step that you are putting between your user and their end goal. CAPTCHAs can be defeated. In fact, bots have been cracking CAPTCHAs since 2008. The only benefit of a CAPTCHA was that it was considered to be unbeatable by bots. That day is long past. Why use a CAPTCHA when there are better solutions that don't inconvenience your website users? Optimized and Scalable - Won't Slow Down Your Site This plugin has an extremely low overhead and won't slow down your site, unlike some other anti-spam plugins. Each of the filters in the plugin have been benchmarked, and when processing comments for spam, the fastest filters are put at the front of the stack. Once a comment tests positive for spam, the testing process terminates and will not engage the remaining filters. Additionally, as mentioned above, by keeping spam out of the WordPress database altogether, WP-SpamShield helps keep your database slimmer and more efficient, which in turn helps keep your site running faster. This efficiency helps keep the server load down, and helps improve the overall performance of your site. WP-SpamShield is optimized to work well with all major caching plugins. Faster than the Cloud Speaking of scalability, WP-SpamShield can kill spam faster than any cloud-based anti-spam solution. Cloud-based anti-spam plugins are inherently slower at processing spam because they have to connect to an external server to check the spam status, which in turn will increase your site's server load. With WP-SpamShield, all anti-spam processing happens directly on your website's server, with lightning speed. Free for Commercial and Personal Websites No cost, no hidden fees. This powerful anti-spam plugin is free for both Commercial and Personal use. If you find that WP-SpamShield benefits you, and you're so inclined, then feel free to make a donation. Responsive and Helpful Tech Support If you have any issues with the plugin, we are here to help. Simply submit a support request at the WP-SpamShield Support Page, and we'll help you diagnose and fix the issue quickly. Don't take our word for it though - look through our plugin ratings/reviews and notice the high percentage of resolved support threads and satisfied users. Additional Features Now WP-SpamShield provides automatic anti-spam protection for: Contact Form 7 forms, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, JetPack Contact Forms; BuddyPress, bbPress and WooCommerce registration forms; Mailchimp signup forms; almost all other WordPress forms; and almost all registration forms! As of version 1.9.2, WP-SpamShield protects JetPack Comments from spam. (Making it one of the few anti-spam plugins that works with JetPack Comments.) A counter on your dashboard to keep track of all the spam it's blocking. The numbers will show how effective this plugin is. See what's been blocked with "Blocked Comment Logging Mode", a temporary diagnostic mode that logs blocked spam (comments, trackbacks, registrations, and contact form submissions) for 7 days, then turns off automatically. If you want to see what spam has been blocked, or verify that everything is working, turn this on and see what WP-SpamShield is protecting your site from. Multiple languages available and more on the way. Currently includes Dutch (nl_NL), French (fr_FR), German (de_DE), Indonesian (id_ID), Italian (it_IT), and Serbian (sr_RS) translations. Ready for translation into other languages. Easy to install - truly plug and play. Just upload and activate. (Installation Status on the plugin admin page to let you know if plugin is installed correctly.) Compatible with, and optimized for all major cache plugins, including WP Super Cache and many others. Not all anti-spam plugins can say that. Display your blocked spam stats on your site. Customizable widgets for graphic counters to display spam stats, in multiple colors, sizes and options. Works in WordPress Multisite as well. (See the related FAQ for details.) Enhanced Comment Blacklist option. Instead of just sending comments to moderation as with WordPress's default Comment Blacklist functionality, with this turned on, anything that matches a string in the blacklist will be completely blocked. Block specific human spammers by IP, email address, or a number of other options. The Enhanced Comment Blacklist has some improvements over the default WordPress blacklist functionality, and adds a link in the comment & contact form notification emails that will let you blacklist a spammer's IP with one click. It also provides some advanced custom options for blocking spam on everything else that WP-SpamShield protects. WP-SpamShield Whitelist option. Allows you to specify certain users who you want to let bypass the antispam filters. This plugin is legal to use in Germany and the EU, and does not violate European privacy laws. It does not use any type of cloud-based service, spam data is not transmitted from your server to any other server, and all anti-spam processing happens directly on your website's server. A truly plug and play replacement and upgrade for WP-SpamFree. (This plugin is a far more advanced fork of WP-SpamFree with dramatically improved page load speed, security, and spam blocking power, by its original author.) It will import your old data from WP-SpamFree automatically upon installation and activation, and features you were using on your site previously such as contact forms and spam stats will continue to work without any changes to pages, posts, or theme. Languages Available English Dutch (nl_NL) French (fr_FR) German (de_DE) Indonesian (id_ID) Italian (it_IT) Serbian (sr_RS) If you would like to help translate, please get in touch with us. Minimum Requirements WordPress 4.0+ (Recommended: WordPress 4.5 or higher) PHP 5.3+ (Recommended: PHP 5.6 or higher) [PHP 7 Compatible: YES - 100%] Your server must be configured to allow the use of an .htaccess file. (This is enabled by default on the vast majority of servers.) Please see the plugin documentation's minimum requirements section for more information. To find web hosts that meet and exceed the requirements, see our list of recommended web hosts. WordPress Without Spam How does it feel to run a WordPress site without being bombarded by blog comment spam, trackback spam, contact form spam, and registration spam? If you're happy with the WP-SpamShield WordPress anti-spam plugin, let others know by reviewing the plugin!

Block comment spam in WordPress with this plugin. Verify comments automatically with the SpamLytics API, and prevent comment spam. No captcha.

Main features of this plugin: * Automatically verify comments and check whether it's spam or not * (partially) block Google Analytics referral spam Comment Spam Filter Block comment spam automatically with this plugin. Use our service and verify up to 50 comments per month for free. You can upgrade your monthly limit on our comment spam filtering website. When a new comment is posted on your site, it will be verified automatically with the SpamLytics API. Within a second, the comment is approved or marked as spam by our comment spam API. We've developed our own algorithm in order to verify comments. Once a comment has passed the algorithm, we verify it with our comment blacklist. The comment spam blacklist is growing continuesly and we're improving the algorithm on a daily basis. This makes sure we can verify and recognize almost all spamm comments from your website. Comment spam can be reduced a lot by using this plugin, and you don't have to use a captcha element anymore. This improves the UX on your website, and the comment spam will be reduced. Google Analytics Referral Spam This plugin uses the SpamLytics blacklist with 495+ sources of traffic with referral spam in Google Analytics. This plugin filters these bots out on your WordPress site. You need a free API key to get daily updates from SpamLytics, the API key could be generated from your WordPress dashboard. Note: this plugin can only filter out bots who actually visit your website. The SpamLytics premium service will create segments and filters automatically in your Analytics account in order to filter (almost) everything for you.

A more seamless approach to deflecting the vast majority of SPAM comments.

CAPTCHA fields inhibit both human and robot participation in important kitty-related discussions. Sock'Em SPAMbots exists to take a more seamless approach to SPAM blocking, placing the burden on the robots, not the humans. Any combination of the following can be enabled: Javascript: require basic Javascript support, and in the process prove the user visited the actual comment form (instead of just submitting straight to WP). Cookies: require basic cookie support, and again, prove the user visited the site before submitting a comment. Honeypot: generic formbots will often populate all form fields with gibberish, so we can assume that if text is added to an invisible field, something robotic is happening! Speed: automated scripts complete comment forms with inhuman speed, thus if submissions happen really quickly, we can assume it is a robot doing the submitting! Links: reject comments with excessive number of links. Disable trackbacks or pingbacks independently of one another.

No Spam At All is a powerful WordPress plugin that prevents spam comments on your WordPress website/blog. The plugin filters out comments that are posted by robots on your blog. This is the only plugi...

n that actually deals with spam comments without looking back. Go from 3,000 spam comments per day to zero spam comments per day. If you have bulk of pending spam comments, No Spam At All will help you manage the comments with just one click. ** Features ** Prevents spam comment to WordPress powered sites/blogs. Clears all spam comments with one single click. Filter out all likely spam comments from pending comments.(comments awaiting moderation) Logs all spam comments for you to see(will be optional in future updates). From 3,000 useless spam comments per day to zero spam comment (Restore your peace of mind).

New WordPress 3.6 or higher plugin which removes the website url field and comment form allowed tags which attract automated comment spam.

Note: Requires WordPress 3.6 or higher This plugin simply removes: The Website URL Field From All Comment Forms. ALL Comment Form Allowed Tags Which Attract Automated Comment Form Spam. The 'Your email address will not be published' text which also attracts comment form bots because it includes the text 'email'. Get WordPress Tips from WP Sites on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/wpsites.net Learn more about how to remove comment form allowed tags

Delete all the SPAM comments of your WordPress site in a regular time interval. To start the scheduled script this plugin using wp_cron hook.

Ger advance version WordPress Database Cleaner If you are a WordPress site owner then you are definitely aware that everyday more than 20-30 SPAM comments are posting in your site's different posts. And if you do not delete these spam comments then database size going heavy day after day. So to have database size lighter you have to remove unnecessary spam comments. To do so you have to go to comments listing and delete all the spam comments. But we are living in advance age and here every thing should be advance. We have created a plugin which will do the same job on behalf of you What this plugin does? This plugin basically delete all spam comments of your WordPress site in a regular time interval. All you need to do is: * Download and Install the Spam Comments Cleaner plugin. * Go to settings >> WordPress Spam Delete options page * Select your suitable time option to delete spam comments in a regular time interval. Features of this plugin: All possible time interval available: * Delete Now * Delete after 1 minute * Delete in every hour. * Delete once in a day in a regular manner. * Delete twice in a day in a regular manner. * Delete once in a week in a regular manner. * Delete once in a month in a regular manner. * Delete twice in a month in a regular manner. * Delete every day at your custom set time. * Stop spam comments delete. Secure and Light weight, very simple and less coding effort. All you need to do is click on suitable time interval button. To delete spam comments at your suitable time text-box available to provide custom time in hr:mm format. For debugging purpose provided button to delete spam in next one(1) minute.

This plugins avoids spam actions on your website (comments and contact form if you use Contact Form 7).

This plugins avoids spam actions on your website (comments and contact form if you use Contact Form 7). Captcha image and Akismet API are available to detect spam for this plugin. In addition, it is possible to ban spammers using Automatic Ban IP plugin. You may configure (for the captcha): The color of the background The color of the letters The size of the image The size of the letters The slant of the letters … This plugin is under GPL licence Multisite – WordPress MU This plugin works with multisite installation of WordPress. Localization Azeri (Latin) (Azerbaijan) translation provided by BayBakVoiceofaNation Czech (Czech Republic) translation provided by SedLex, Kumerson German (Germany) translation provided by SedLex, Diego, ThorstenKallnischkies, PatrickEhrler, Inoverse English (United States), default language Spanish (Spain) translation provided by SedLex, Krazz, admin, ThorstenKallnischkies, SecurityNull Spanish (Mexico) translation provided by RUBEN Farsi (Iran) translation provided by BahmanMohadeci, mortezapourmirzai, AmirMaskani, Raheb Finnish (Finland) translation provided by French (France) translation provided by SedLex, Geraldine, fabien, Brugees, jpmarceorg, nourdin Italian (Italy) translation provided by GimmiGIS Japanese (Japan) translation provided by hasegawa Lithuanian (Lithuania) translation provided by marko.estas Dutch (Netherlands) translation provided by Marksremarks Norwegian-Nynorsk (Norway) translation provided by BjornHoel Polish (Poland) translation provided by Kobra Portuguese (Brazil) translation provided by MarcosAndrade, AdrianaVandoni, IuriJacob Russian (Russia) translation provided by IgorPulbere Turkish (Turkey) translation provided by AdLX Vietnamese (Viet Nam) translation provided by SilverLight Chinese (People’s Republic of China) translation provided by bladin Chinese (Taiwan) translation provided by Features of the framework This plugin uses the SL framework. This framework eases the creation of new plugins by providing tools and frames (see dev-toolbox plugin for more info). You may easily translate the text of the plugin and submit it to the developer, send a feedback, or choose the location of the plugin in the admin panel. Have fun !

The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.

Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. Major features in Akismet include: Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam. Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator. URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links. Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user. A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site. PS: You’ll need an Akismet.com API key to use it. Keys are free for personal blogs; paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites.

Block/blacklist known (and custom) spam referring domains at the WordPress level with an HTTP 403 Forbidden page.

Referer spam has been growing and clogging up website analytics data (such as Google Analytics) with fraudulent traffic statistics. Millions of users are reporting issues and it has become a major nuisance. Block these malicious sites easily. All major referer spam domains blocked out of the box and you can customize the domain keyword lists to block any domains you wish. Brought to you by the team of WordPress experts at WP Maintainer.

This plugin prevents spam referrer attacks by filtering your incoming traffic.

This plugin uses a blacklist to filter your incoming traffic and block “spam referrer” attacks. This blacklist has been compiled using the author’s website and a few others : during the plugin’s beta-testing phase, a few webmasters sent their reports to the author in order to find a suitable list of domains actually using false referrers to spam (at least) some websites statistics. Terms of use There aren’t any terms, conditions or restrictions to the use of this plugin and/or the Blacklist : feel free to reuse our work ! If you want to use the SpamReferrerBlock Blacklist for other purposes than this plugin, we simply ask that you consider linking to this page, to the plugin homepage, or to our blog. That’s all The Webservice This plugin uses a Webservice. Please be advised : You will retrieve information from our server. The “Blacklist” consists of a plain JSON file. No need to register or provide personal information. Free of charge, forever. Caution – We technically can access some information while you request the file : your server’s IP address and server name, and so on. But we (honestly) DO NOT use ANY information that can be sent to our server during the downloading process, in any way. Updates The blacklist will be updated as often as possible, we expect to release weekly updates. You can choose to automatically download the blacklist once a day. You can choose to filter all connexions or only the first of every session. Webmasters are encouraged to submit spammy URLs to help us improve the blacklist (see FAQ). Why this plugin ? I wrote a post about spam referrer attacks and how to avoid them on my blog : http://www.didcode.com/code/stop-spam-referrer.html (fr). Some webmasters asked me (on Twitter) to write this plugin. They were also targeted by “spam referrer attacks” and sent me the originating domains. I compiled a list and put it in a JSON file, which is called by the plugin. Plugin home page (fr)

The most advanced protection against sploggers and spam users registration, is fully WordPress,WordPress MU ,BuddyPress and bbPress 2.0 compatible

I paid (with a great effort) another month of one of the servers. In October 20th, I won’t be able to pay the bigger server. I’m making this effort, trusting the success of the Indiegogo campaign. Soon, I will post the campaign link and I hope that all users of WangGuard make a donation no matter how small it is. In other case, I will be forced to close down WangGuard definitely. Thanks so much to everyone for your support, please spread the word about #SaveWangGuard Our API works over SSL, so all connections are secure connections. This is mandatory for all European websites because you are sending information. We are Europeans, so we respect the law, even the most demanding of all Europe, the Spanish law. Use a service that does not comply with all European laws or send information without encryption, it can mean heavy fines. If you don’t want to use secure connection, you can disable it from WangGuard configuration page. Welcome to WangGuard, Welcome to the revolution WangGuard Add-ons WangGuard – MailPoet Connector WangGuard Blacklisted Words WangGuard Limited Registration Domain WangGuard Registration Notice And more to come! Please, read the WangGuard’s philosophy WangGuard works by incorporating an antivirus philosophy. Follow us on Twitter WangGuard Always will be free for personal use, this means that whenever you have less than 5,000 daily registrations or you make less than $200/month, you never have to pay anything for WangGuard. Over 195,000,000+ Splogger/unwanted users blocked But now, WangGuard is free for every one for limited time. One time we believe that we’ve added all the necessary tools, we will begin to charge for WangGuard to users that have more than 5,000 queries a day, making more than $200/month or are companies. Prices Now, WangGuard is Donateware – Donate Service, so please donate or WangGuard will be shout off WangGuard already is blocking 99.90% of sploggers and unwanted users. What are users and Sploggers saying? Did you find a bug? Have you an Idea for WangGuard? Advice If you are using W3 Total Cache and you have enabled HTML&XML Minify and you use BuddyPress or a custom registration page. Please, go to Performance -> Minify -> Advanced -> “Never minify the following pages:” and add you registration page. If you dont do this, you could have some issues. WangGuard NOT protect your site from comment spam, WangGuard protect your registration page from sploggers, unwanted users and untrusted users and WangGuard clean your database from them. For comment spam, you have another great plugin, Akismet. WangGuard protect the standard WordPress, WordPress Multisite, BuddyPress and bbPress 2.0 registration forms. If you use custom registration page, maybe WangGuard will not work. If you use a plugin or custom registration page, once you’ve installed WangGuard, test if it works. if it doesn’t work, talk with the plugin developer or with your developer to make it compatible or use the standard WordPress, WordPress Multisite, BuddyPress or bbPress 2.0 signup form. WangGuard is fully compatible with Standard WordPress (non-multisite), WordPress MU, WordPress Multisite, BuddyPress (multisite and non-multisite), bbPress 2.0, and plugins like WooCommerce. If you have signup enabled on your Standard WordPress, WordPress MU, WordPress Multisite, BuddyPress, bbPress 2.0, or ‘my profile’ in WooCommerce this is the plugin you were waiting for. There is nothing like it, is a next generation plugin associated a web service and a new concept of active protection from Sploggers, spam users, unwanted users and Black Hat SEO. This is just the beginning. WangGuard not only protect your site from sploggers, spam users or unwanted users, WangGuard cleans your database from them. No plugin or service does this, only with WangGuard you will get this feature. Now Free to everyone for a limited time!. Who make more than $200/month, need more than 5,000 API Queries/month or a company they not have to pay anything until at least January 2015. We will not charge anything until we develop everything that we want to develop and be the best service by far. Introduction to WangGuard: [wpvideo RGdn6YSg] It is very important to use WangGuard at least for a week, reporting your site’s unwanted users as sploggers from the Users panel. WangGuard will learn at that time to protect your site from sploggers in a much more effective way. WangGuard protects each web site in a personalized way using information provided by Administrators who report sploggers world-wide, that’s why it’s very important that you report your sploggers to WangGuard. The longer you use WangGuard, the more effective it will become. Upon user registration, WangGuard will check against a centralized database if the user is a Splogger or spam-user. If WangGuard determines that the user is a Splogger, WangGuard won’t allow the registration on your site. No need to put any kind of filter in the user registration page (eg captcha). This is the greatness of WangGuard, not hinder users who wish to register on your site with Captchas and other things that just makes the registration being more difficult and in many cases do not stop Sploggers. But in case you want to put something WangGuard gives you the ability to add one or more security questions from the plugin’s administration page, which will be randomly displayed on the registration page. Why use WangGuard? WangGuard cleans your database from sploggers, spam users and unwanted users. Is very dangerous to have sploggers, spam users or unwanted users, they could hack the site. The sploggers, spam users or unwanted users uses your server resources for their benefit. They can overload your site to their benefit hurting you and your users. They hurt your position in search engines like Google. Search engines such as Google can block your site because you are advertising illegal, prohibited or dangerous products or content. Sploggers, spam users and unwanted users, bothers the rest of your users, this may cause them to sign off your site. Do not bother your new users with complicated captchas that in most cases do not stop the sploggers, spam users or unwanted users. WangGuard fixes all of these problems, and if you’re a personal user, it does it for free. General Features Free API key for personal use 30 days Trial API works over SSL Clean your installation of unwanted users and sploggers. Centralized database of sploggers. NEW Signup moderation Block users emails by domains. Advanced User Management. Configure from Admin panel Valid HTML I18n language translation support Security questions WangGuard find Sploggers, spam-users or unwanted users in your old ones registered users WangGuard clean your database of Sploggers, spam-users or unwanted users Protect Standard WordPress registration page against Web Service from spam-user or unwanted users Protect WordPress MU registration page against Web Service from Sploggers, spam-user or unwanted users Protect WordPress Multisite (WP 3.x) registration page against Web Service from Sploggers, spam-user or unwanted users Protect BuddyPress registration page against Web Service from Sploggers, spam-user or unwanted users Protect bbPress 2.0 registration page against Web Service from Sploggers, spam-user or unwanted users Anti-splog Web Service. Signup Moderation Disable WangGuard menu in WordPress & BuddyPress AdminBar AppThemes compatible WooCommerce integration WordPress Simple Features gmail.com and googlemail.com duplicated account verifications (activate on WangGuard Configuration) Optional DNS verification of the email domain (right side of the @ in an email address) (activate on WangGuard Configuration) Full Statistics Added the ability to flag a user as “Not Splogger” Wizard for detect and eliminate Sploggers Mark as Splogger from post list WordPress Mu (WPMU) Features gmail.com and googlemail.com duplicated account verifications (activate on WangGuard Configuration) Optional DNS verification of the email domain (right side of the @ in an email address) (activate on WangGuard Configuration) Full Statistics Added the ability to flag a user as “Not Splogger” Wizard for detect and eliminate Sploggers Mark as Splogger from post list Protect all registration pages from All blogs (Activated sitewide) WordPress Multisite (WP3.x) Features New! Open Sun Sites from WangGuard Admin. You do not need more to visit the sub sites outsite Wordress Admin. gmail.com and googlemail.com duplicated account verifications (activate on WangGuard Configuration) Optional DNS verification of the email domain (right side of the @ in an email address) (activate on WangGuard Configuration) Full Statistics Added the ability to flag a user as “Not Splogger” Wizard for detect and eliminate Sploggers Mark as Splogger from post list Add a “Report blog and author” on every blog Moderation Queue for repored users and blogs Protect all registration pages from All blogs (Activated for Network) BuddyPress 1.2.x, 1.5, 2.x (WordPress Simple and WordPress Multisite 3.x and 4.x) Features gmail.com and googlemail.com duplicated account verifications (activate on WangGuard Configuration) Optional DNS verification of the email domain (right side of the @ in an email address) (activate on WangGuard Configuration) Full Statistics Added the ability to flag a user as “Not Splogger” Mark as Splogger from post list Add “Report blog and author” on every blog Moderation Queue for repored users and blogs Add report user on every Activity Add report user on every profile Wizard for detect and eliminate Sploggers Groups in WangGuard Users Screen bbPress 2.x Plugin gmail.com and googlemail.com duplicated account verifications (activate on WangGuard Configuration) Optional DNS verification of the email domain (right side of the @ in an email address) (activate on WangGuard Configuration) Full Statistics Added the ability to flag a user as “Not Splogger” Wizard for detect and eliminate Sploggers Requirements/Restrictions Works with WordPress 3.8+, WPMU 3.8+, BuddyPress 1.0.3+, BddyPress 1.5.x, BuddyPress 2.x, bbPress 2.0+ (WordPress 4.1+ is highly recommended) PHP 4.3 or above. (PHP 5+ is highly recommended) Configuration After the plugin is activated, you can configure it by selecting the “configuration” tab on the “WangGuard” page. Usage Obtain a new API KEY for your site from WangGuard, then go to “configuration” on the “WangGuard” tab and paste the provided API KEY to activate WangGuard. This step is not necessary, but if you want anyway, create the security questions that will appear randomly in the user registration page. You can create or modify security questions and answers from the Admin panel. Please go to WangGuard Wizard and use it. Upon user registration, WangGuard will check against a centralized database if the user is a Splogger or spam-user. If WangGuard determines that the user is a Splogger, WangGuard won’t allow the registration on your site. You, as Admin, will be able to report existing SPloggers to WangGuard from the Admin panel. If you flag a user as “spam”, from either WordPress or BuddyPress, the user will be automatically reported as Splogger to WangGuard. If you flag manually a user as Splogger, the user will be reported to WangGuard and also will be deleted from your WordPress, also, when multisite or network are enabled, the user’s blogs will be flagged as “spam” blogs. What say people? What say users? Shoutmeloud WangGuard Plugin : Stop WordPress User Registration Spam. Verasoul Como mantener wordpress libre de sploggers. Zaddick Blog: WangGuard is the best plugin I have found to altogether eliminate spammers and sploggers from your WordPress and BuddyPress site. OrangeCopper Blog Best BuddyPress Plugins download LOJ Tech Have a self hosted WordPress blog, and receiving an awful amount of spam? I’m not going to go over this like I usually do, I’ll just go over what it does and how great it can be to have on your WordPress Blog. The plugin is called WangGuard. PracticalWP If you are planning to start a membership site or open registrations on your blog, WangGuard can help you deal with sploggers more effectively. Kaliseo Simple mais efficace. De quoi mettre des bâtons dans les roues aux développeurs de Link Farm Evolution et à 68 000 autres personnes. WordPressのセキュリティ関連のプラグイン28個 マルチサイトなどでスプロガーやスパマーの登録を防ぐために外部のWangGuardウェブサービスでチェックする。 AyudaWordpress Hace tiempo que José Conti viene luchando contra esa plaga de los blogs spam en instalaciones multisitio y BuddyPress, y parece que por fin ha dado con la solución. spammers کو – Sexeinträge (8 جوابات) اتفاق سے ، میں نے پلگ ان “WangGuard” سب کے لئے فعال سپیم زیادہ مؤثر انداز میں لڑنا ہے. Blogurp Wang Guard works flawlessly on my website with WordPress 3.2.1 and BuddyPress 1.5. Thank You!!!! sarangan112 Hello, I just would like to thank the author for this wonderful plugin which is the best ever plugin to protect WPMU sites from sploggers! And it works! After have tried with spam math plugins, captcha etc. finally I found this plugins. You saved my life. Putoslocos @wangguard_es Es GENIAL. Ni un registro no real What say Sploggers or Unwanted User? From Twitter: Quelqu’un sait comment peut-on se protéger du ban par le service WangGuard? #LFE #splog #WPMU #antispam # antisplog #LFE does not work anymore. WangGuard… piece of shit!!!!!!. Please HELP!!!! WangGuard is deleting all my Backlinks!! #LFE

Sabre is an acronym for Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. It's a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog.

Sabre is an acronym for Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. It’s a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog. Your visitors are granted permission to register freely on your blog and now you are plagued by fake users automatically created by spammers? Sabre is the solution to stop definitely these robotized visitors! List of available features: Inclusion of a captcha in the registration form Selection of the captcha’s complexity Selection of the background colour for the captcha image Inclusion of a math test in the registration form Selection of the math test’s complexity Inclusion of a text test in the registration form Random or fixed choice of the test to run Unobstrusive tests to detect if registration is done by humans or not Registration blocked if Javascript is unsupported by the browser Registration blocked if visitor’s IP address is found on ban lists The site administrator can validate the user registration (monosite only) The user can validate his registration by clicking on a link sent by mail (monosite only) Limited number of days for user confirmation. Without beeing confirmed within the period of time, the user account is disabled (monosite only) Log on prohibited before user confirmation (monosite only) User is allowed to choose his password when registering on the site (monosite only) User must agree with a warning text, disclaimer or general policy note when registering User must give an invitation code during registration Main statistics displayed on the site’s dashboard Custom logo on logon/registration screen (monosite only) All these features are activated by parameters. Thus, Sabre is flexible enough and fits the protection policy you define for your blog. NOTE 1: For WordPress 3.0 or higher in mono or multisite modes, use Sabre 1.2.2 For WordPress 2.5 to 2.9.x, use Sabre 1.1.2 For WordPress prior to 2.5, use Sabre 0.6.3 NOTE 2: If you are upgrading from a previous install, don’t forget to deactivate Sabre before overwriting the older files with the new ones. Then activate it again so Sabre can apply the required database and options updates. Documentation All the functions of Sabre are located in the Tools >> Sabre tab of the administration environment. Sabre interface is divided into five tabs: 1) “General options” First, some numbers related to valid, invalid and pending confirmation registrations are displayed. Then, you can find the parameters of Sabre: 1a) Captcha Options Click on the checkbox “Activate captcha” to display, in the registration form , a characters string that the user will have to copy back. The other captcha’s parameters will let you define the string’s length, valid characters used to generate the random string as well as the background colour of the image, number and type of graphic objects used to “blur” the string. The captcha is based on QuickCaptcha 1.0 from Web 1 Marketing, Inc released under GNU GPL. 1b) Math Options Click on the checkbox “Activate math test” to display, in the registration form , an arithmetic operation. The user will have to give the result. The other parameter let you define the valid operations the plugin will choose from. Recognized operations are addition, substraction and multiplication. The plugin will choose randomly two numbers between 1 and 20 and one of the listed operations. 1c) Text Options Click on the checkbox “Activate text test” to display, in the registration form , a random word. The user will have to give the n-th letter of this word. This is an alternative to the graphic captcha for those who dislike it. 1d) Sequence of tests Select “All” to add all the active tests in the registration form. Select “Randomly” and the plugin will choose one of the tests, active or not. 1e) Stealth Options Click on the checkbox “Enable stealth test” to activate a set of internal tests that try to detect if the current registration is done by a human being or not. These tests doesn’t interact with the user and run undetected for a regular human registration. These tests include the following: Control that the registration form is loaded before the answer is sent to the server. Control that the IP adress of the requester is the same when the form is sent back. Control that the browser used to register has Javascript capabilities as many spambots lack them. You can choose to reject the registration in such case, clicking on the checkbox “Block if Javascript unsupported”. Control that the Javascript capability is not faked. Control that the registration is done within a maximum period of time. You can set this period (in seconds) under “Session time out”. Try to maintain this number as low as possible for security reasons but high enough to let a human fill the registration form. Default value is 5 minutes (300 seconds). Control that the registration form is possibly filled by a human, in a minimum amount of time. A spambot will spend very little time to fill the form and send it to the server compared with human possibilities. You can set this minimum amount of time (in seconds) under “Speed limit”. Default value is 5 seconds. Control that IP address is not banned by DNSBL servers. You can turn on/off this control, clicking on the checkbox “Check DNS Blacklists”. 1f) Confirmation Options Confirmation Options are not available in multisite mode. The built-in registration features of WordPress will be used. Select the correct item on the dropdown list “Activate confirmation” to force the user or the blog administrator to confirm the registration on your blog. None: No confirmation is required. (default) By user: User must confirm his registration. When this option is activated, the registering user will receive his user id and password by mail as usual. He is also asked to confirm his registration within x days following a link added to the mail. During this period of time, the user account is waiting for the confirmation but usable to connect to the blog. If the confirmation is not done in the due time, the account will become unusable. By admin: The registration needs the administrator’s confirmation to be activated. When this option is activated, the registering user will receive his user id and password by mail as usual but the account is not usable to connect to the blog until administrator’s validation. Upon confirmation, a mail is sent to the user. The next three parameters are effective only if user confirmation is required. Number of days lets you give a period of time (in days) for the user to confirm his registration before the account becomes unavailable. By clicking on the “Deny early sign-in” checkbox, you can prevent the connection of the new user until confirmation of his registration. If you want to receive a mail whenever a user confirms its registration, click on the “Send mail when confirmed” checkbox. If you want to suppress automatically the user account created by WordPress when the registration is cancelled, just click on the “Suppress unregistered users” checkbox. This option will be taken into account either in a manual cancelation or in case of exceeded period of time. Keep in mind that all the posts and links owned by the suppressed user account will be deleted as well. IMPORTANT : The users with “edit_users” capability will not be controled. Then, it is always possible to use the default admin account created by WordPress during the blog installation. 1g) Policy Options Click on the checkbox “Enable policy agreement” to force the user to acknowledge the fact that he read the rules of use of your blog before registration. Give a title to your text block filling the “Policy name” input box. You can choose names like Disclaimer, Licence agreement, General policy, etc… If you have a dedicated policy page on your site, you can enter its URL in the “Policy link” input box. When displaying the registration form, the user will see a link to this URL. The link’s text will be the Policy name entered above. The URL can be a WordPress page or an external html file. If you don’t have a dedicated policy page, just write down the text of your disclaimer in the “Policy text” input box. Just write plain text. HTML tags are not allowed. 1h) Invitation Options Click on the checkbox “Enable invitation” if you want to control who can register on your blog by asking the user to give his invitation code during registration. Fill the “Code” input box with the valid invitation codes you want. Example : PROMO2008, SZ78PQR, etc… or click on the “Gen” button to let Sabre generate an invitation code for you. To delete a code, just click on the “Sup” button. CAUTION: Invitation codes must be typed in uppercase letters. If you want to limit the number of use for a specific code, just type a number in the “Usage” zone. Sabre will rest one each time the code is used. When the counter reaches zero, the code is no longer valid. If you want to limit the period of use for a code, just type an expiration date in the “Validity” zone. Format must be YYYY-MM-DD: Example : 2010-10-20 for a code valid until October 20th, 2010. Then, you can communicate those codes to the persons who will be allowed to register on your blog. 1i) Miscellaneous Options Click on the checkbox “User password” to let the user choose his own password during the registration process. Otherwise, WordPress will generate a random password. The password strength is displayed in real time to help the user to choose a strong and safe password. (Not available in multisite mode) Enter the name you want in the “Sender’s name” input box. This name will appear as the sender of the registration mail sent by Sabre to the user. Will default to the site’s name if left blank. Enter the Email address of your choice in the “Sender’s Email” input box. It will appear as the sender’s Email of the registration mail sent by Sabre. Will default to the administrator’s Email set in the WordPress general parameters if left blank. Click on the checkbox “Show banner” to add a reference and a link to Sabre’s site at the bottom of the registration form. It’s up to you to decide if you want to advertise Sabre or not ! Click on the checkbox “Show on dashboard” to add a widget on the dashboard with the main statistics about Sabre. Click on the checkbox “Show in profile” to add some informations about the registration status in the user profile. Click on the checkbox “Suppress Sabre” if you want to delete all information created by Sabre (table and options) when deactivating the plugin. CAUTION : Use this option only if you decided to stop using Sabre or if you want to purge the table and reset all the options to their default values. Don’t forget to click on “Save options” to store your changes. 2) “Blocked Registrations” Tab List the invalid registrations with the cause of error. The number of new registrations blocked since your last visit is shown between parenthesis on the tab. It’s possible to suppress the log giving the number of days to retain (20 days by default) and clicking on “Delete”. You can ask Sabre to do it automatically, from now on, with the same period by clicking on the checkbox. A null or negative number of days with the checkbox ticked will prevent Sabre from doing the automatic cleanup. To suppress the log for a specific period of time without modifying the parameter of the automatic cleanup, just type the number of days to retain, untick the checkbox and press “Delete”. 3) “Approuved Registrations” Tab List the registration definitively accepted (status = ok). The user id created is displayed and gives access to its data by just clicking on it. The number of new accepted registrations since your last visit is shown between parenthesis on the tab. It’s also possible to register manually a user giving his WordPress account name or all existing WordPress users clicking on the checkbox then pressing the “Add” button. To cancel the registration of users, just click on the corresponding checkbox in the list, then press the “Unregister” button. 4) “Registrations to confirm” Tab List the registration waiting for confirmation (status = to confirm). The user id created is displayed and gives access to its data by just clicking on it. The number of new registrations to confirm since your last visit is shown between parenthesis on the tab. Whether the confirmation is done by the blog administrator or the user, the following two buttons are available: Confirmation of the registrations is done by selecting the accounts in the list, then pressing the “Confirm” button. Refusal of the registrations is done by selecting the accounts in the list, then pressing the “Refuse” button. When the confirmation must be done by the user himself, the blog administrator has no reason to intervene but, if needed, he can confirm or refuse manually a registration on behalf of a user. 5) “About” Tab A wise text about the author and his work. A must-read you can’t resist to ! 6) Custom image in logon/registration screen To change the default logo, copy your own image file in the /images directory of Sabre plugin. The file must be a 290pixels x 66pixels GIF file named sabre-login.gif. (Not available in multisite mode)

Plugin for stopping most spambot registrations via a simple honeypot method.

A plugin for stopping most spambots from registering user accounts on WordPress sites with open user registration. This plugin creates a simple, hidden field that spambots will automatically fill out. If this registration field has data entered into it, the registration process is cut off and no spam user account will be created. This plugin isn’t an end-all solution to spam registrations. It’s a simple solution for one type of spam registration issue that has come in handy for me many times. There’s no configuration. Simply install, activate, and let the plugin do its work. Professional Support If you need professional plugin support from me, the plugin author, you can access the support forums at Theme Hybrid, which is a professional WordPress help/support site where I handle support for all my plugins and themes for a community of 40,000+ users (and growing). Plugin Development If you’re a plugin author or just a code hobbyist, you can follow the development of this plugin on it’s GitHub repository. Donations Yes, I do accept donations. If you want to buy me a beer or whatever, you can do so from my donations page. I appreciate all donations, no matter the size. Further development of this plugin is not contingent on donations, but they are always a nice incentive.