Best Anti Spam Plugins for WordPress

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Everyone knows about Akismet, but there are a few good alternatives to that plugin for beating the spam disease. Lets take a look at a few of them.
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Everyone knows about Akismet, but there are a few good alternatives to that plugin for beating the spam disease. Lets take a look at a few of them.

Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin

This plugin will add a client side generated checkbox to your comment form asking users to confirm that they are not a spammer. It is a lot less trouble to click a box than it is to enter a captcha and because the box is genereated via client side javascript that bots cannot see, it should stop 99% of all automated spam bots.

A check is made that the checkbox has been checked before the comment is submitted so there’s no chance that a comment will be lost if it’s being submitted by legitimate human user.

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Spam Free WordPress

Spam Free WordPress is a comment spam blocking plugin that claims to block 100% of the automated spam with zero false positives. It’s a bit of a bombastic claim, but try it out and see how it works for you.

Here are the features of this plugin:

  1. Automatically blocks automated comment spam
  2. Local IP address blocklist for manual spam
  3. Almost zero database load under the heaviest spam conditions.
  4. Zero false positives
  5. Option to strip HTML from comments
  6. No CAPTCHA
  7. Saves time and money by eliminating the need to empty the comment spam folder
  8. Option to automatically delete comments marked as spam, trackbacks/pingbacks, and unapproved.

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AntiSpam Bee

Another plugin that has received a lot of rave ratings, and almost 500,000 downloads. Worth a try.

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What plugin are you using to combat spam? There are mixed reviews on all the anti-spam plugins, so the best is to test them for yourself and see which works best. Spam doesn’t have to be a problem on WordPress blogs.

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Jean Galea

Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and blogger. He is the founder of WP Mayor, the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight, as well as the Mastermind.fm podcast. His personal blog can be found at jeangalea.com.

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25 Responses

  1. Hiii
    Very nice and wise collection of words to describe the importance of anti-spam plugins.
    I am running a video website. And when I started it, the Akismet was already installed. I want to ask is it necessary to install more anti-spam plugins to protect my website. I mean, professionally how many anti-spam plugins should be installed if you want 100% protection.

  2. There is new plugin, which can protect your website from all comments spam and fake registrations

  3. Thanks for this grate review currently i am using akismet
    but i will replace with GASP on my blog

  4. I use because it blocks both spams and unauthorized login attempts. I was very surprised when I discovered so many login attempts into my site. (around 200 – probably it was an automated robot or something). And the best thing is that you can actually block these IPs.

  5. Hi, jean. I installed Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin in my blog. But on my dashboard it showed some error codes. After installing it, check box is not in a proper position. Please, help me to resolve this.

  6. Hi, jean. I installed Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin in my blog. But on my dashboard it showed some error codes. After installing it, check box is not in a proper position. Please, help me to resolve this

  7. For me, the most effective anti-spam plugin is cleantalk, sorry that he was not considered in the article.

  8. Thanks for the list of plugins.I have a membership site and was getting many spam registration even with SI captha plugin installed at www.dailynewscompany.com. But after reading this post I switched to Securimage-WP WordPress Plugin and it works like magic…

  9. Hi friends, how is the whole thing, and what you want to say concerning this article, in my view its in fact remarkable for me.

  10. Previously I only depend on Akismet and it helps a lot. I was just eager to try out Growmap, unfortunately the check box is not properly align in my theme. Do you happen to know the reason?

  11. I recently tried Growmap Anti Spambot and it did not do anything, no check box, nothing. Clean cache or not.
    Tough to if I should use it when it does nothing…not.

  12. Through this plugin users can select wide variety of methods to display the captcha

    1. Sorting in increasing or decreasing order
    2. Entering biggest or smallest number
    3. Selecting Am or Am Not Spammer using combo box
    4. Entering the alphabets
    5. Addition or Subtraction

  13. Thanks so much for this post. I’ve been using Akismet and all of the sudden I am getting an overload of spam comments. I needed recommendations for a new spam preventer and this helped! Thanks.

    1. Personally Akismet does the job on my sites, if that didn’t work I would try Growmap next.

  14. My first choice will be Growmap Anti Spambot too.As it suggest only a check box not the captcha like thing which can be irritates real commentators.Thanks for helping me out Jean.

  15. My first choice is “Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin”. I never recommend Akismet as “Prevention is better than Cure”. Didn’t tried other alternatives mentioned here, will check them too.

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