Spam

Navigate strategies for combating spam in WordPress, covering plugins and techniques to prevent and manage comment spam, form spam, and email spam. Learn about spam filters, moderation settings, and anti-spam plugins to maintain a clean and secure website.

How and Why to Disable Comments in WordPress

How and Why to Disable Comments in WordPress

Quickly tailor your WordPress site’s comment settings with our guide. Learn to disable comments either across your entire site or on specific posts using both Gutenberg and classic editors, streamlining your site for a better user experience.

Best WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin

Human Presence vs Akismet vs Google reCAPTCHA: Best WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin?

If you want to protect your WordPress site from spam form submissions, Human Presence, Akismet, and Google reCAPTCHA are three popular solutions. In our hands-on Human Presence vs Akismet vs Google reCAPTCHA comparison, we’ll help you pick the right WordPress anti-spam plugin for your needs.

WP Armour Anti Spam Plugin

WP Armour Anti Spam Plugin: Hassle-Free Bot Filtering

Trying to manually clear out spam from comment sections and keep bots from infiltrating your forms can be exhausting. Fortunately, WP Armour makes it easy. Learn how this all-in-one anti spam plugin automatically filters and blocks bots from invading your site’s forms.

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How to Prevent Spam On Your WordPress Site (And Why It Matters)

Comments can be an excellent way to engage your site’s audience and build a community around your content. Unfortunately, they’re also a ripe opportunity for spam posters.

Whether they add untrustworthy links to your site or simply flood your posts with content that doesn’t provide any value to readers, getting rid of spam comments is crucial. In this post, we’ll share three simple tips for doing so.

Anti-Spam by CleanTalk: A Look at the SpamFireWall

CleanTalk has released some new features since WPMayor’s original review. One particularly interesting feature is the SpamFireWall. For this review I took SpamFireWall for a spin. Here are my thoughts on using it and the benefits it can offer.

Say Goodbye to Spam-Bots with Goodbye Captcha

One of the latest and most successful plugins to provide anti-spam protection without the need of captcha was dubbed by the folks at WPShout as “the Akismet of online forms”, and it’s been fittingly named Goodbye Captcha.

Anti-Spam by CleanTalk: Separating Bots from Humans

Spam, one of the biggest issues with any WordPress site. So much so that Automattic even include the Akismet plugin with every WordPress file. But is Akismet really the best option? Yes it’s the most downloaded WordPress plugin. Yes it’s effective in stopping spam. But is there something better? Something that does that bit more than Akismet and with a lower price tag?

That’s when I came across Anti-Spam by CleanTalk.

Anti-Spam Solutions for WordPress

Are you fighting a losing battle against spam on your blog or website? Read on to find which plugins will provide a solution to ending spam once and for all.