Why humans should prove that they are humans by filling captchas? Lets bots prove that they are not bots with adding javascript to their user-agents!
Anti-spam plugin blocks spam in comments automatically, invisibly for users and for admins.
- no captcha, because spam is not users' problem
- no moderation queues, because spam is not administrators' problem
- no options, because it is great to forget about spam completely
Plugin is easy to use: just install it and it just works.
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What I know now about spam and spam-bots?
- All spam-bots does not have javascript
- Spam-bots submit all inputs from forms so forms are parsed before being submitted
- If input have 'email' in its name than many spam-bots tries to submit email in it automatically
- All spam-bots does not have Cookies (Cookie array is empty)
- Spam is very complicated now, pretty "smart" and fully automated
Really Great Plugin,its protected my site from spam,thanks a lot for creating.
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Hi,
The plugin works perfectly for the comment forms. How to connect it to contact form too?
Thanks
Max
Anti-spam plugin does not work with contact form plugins because there are dozens of them and each one have its own algorithm of sending feedbacks and callbacks.
Thanks for the fast replay webvitaly. So, in short words, I need to find an anti-spam plugin for the related Contact Form 7 ? (it's the current contact plugin that I use)
Thanks
Max
I use Contact Form 7 too.
I am using math question on my feedback form.
You can read more about Contact Form 7 quiz feature.
Thank you webvitaly.
Max
Back in September I made a comment asking about a feature to block on n number of links in a spam comment.
Webvitaly challenged me on this, stating that there is no reason as Anti-spam should take care of almost all spam as is.
I promised feedback and I am really happy to report that Webvitaly was CORRECT!
Since installing this plugin I have had zero spam at all, what a life saver!
That's awesome to hear :))
Perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi, very strange problem. The plugin is working great as far as I can tell.
Over the past few days I have been receiving email that a comment has been posted to various posts, it is obviously a spam comment. It is not showing up in the dashboard, recent comments or on the post. Any ideas?
You have feedback form on your site and if comments are not appear in dashboard than it means that it is just spam via feedback form.
Check out this solution.
I am using your plugin but I am still getting a fair amount of spam. I am wondering if it is because I have a contact form on the sidebar of each page or if it is because I also have another anti-spam plugin that wan't doing enough so I thought I'd add another one. 2 is better than 1 right? Sorry if I sound like a newbie, but I am. Thanks for any help in advance.
"2 is better than 1 right?" - in many cases yes, but sometimes collisions or conflicts happen.
What another anti-spam plugin do you use?
Typical comment goes to email with subject: [sitename] Please moderate: "Pagename"
Typical feedback have word "Feedback" in subject.
What kind of emails do you get?
The other spam plugin i have, i just realized, is also you guys.. i have both anti-spam and alphaomega captcha & anti spam filter.. i have the contact us widget on the sidebar, check it out at big10restaurant.com and the following is an example of the emails im getting
Name
GefGorota
Email Address
rty67ywu8@mail.ru
Message
Я нашел [b][url=http://porn-girl.info]exclusive fetish videos[/url] [/b] здесь или [b][url=http://porn-girl.info]http://porn-girl.info [/url][/b]
I am sure that it is spam. And this spam came from feedback form via Contact Form 7 plugin. I recommend to find some captcha plugin for your Contact form.
For example I added this block to contact form template:
[quiz quiz-490 "1+1=?|2" "1+2=?|3" "1+3=?|4" "1+4=?|5" "1+5=?|6" "1+6=?|7" "1+7=?|8" "1+8=?|9" "2+1=?|3" "2+2=?|4" "2+3=?|5" "2+4=?|6" "2+5=?|7" "2+6=?|8" "2+7=?|9" "3+1=?|4" "3+2=?|5" "3+3=?|6" "3+4=?|7" "3+5=?|8" "3+6=?|9" "4+1=?|5" "4+2=?|6" "4+3=?|7" "4+4=?|8" "4+5=?|9" "5+1=?|6" "5+2=?|7" "5+3=?|8" "5+4=?|9" "6+1=?|7" "6+2=?|8" "6+3=?|9" "7+1=?|8" "7+2=?|9" "8+1=?|9"]
and it stops spam on my feedback form.
I did, I have AlphaOmega Capcha but it doesn't work on my contact form that is located on my sidebar.
Hello, I have a spam plugin, but it lets too much spam through so going to give your plugin a try.
I'd like to make a suggestion / feature request if I may? Manually submitted spam (via the browser) will usually contain hyperlinks. Can you add an option to automatically spam a comment if it contains more than n links?
Thanks,
John
Anti-spam plugin blocks almost all automatic spam comments.
The amount of manual spam is pretty low and there is no need to filter it.
But you may try use WordPress Comment Moderation feature. Visit in you admin section: Settings =} Discussion =} Comment Moderation =} "Hold a comment in the queue if it contains 2 or more links."
Try to use anti-spam plugin some time and write me back about your experience and how many comments you received with many links.
I'll do that... thank you.
I love your Anti-Spam plugin. :-) My only feature suggestion is to have the JS file minified so it loads even faster. Minifying it would decrease file size by 47%.
Up until a couple of weeks ago I was using an anti-spam plugin that toward the end was allowing far too much spam through that needed moderation. I removed that plugin.
So, I decided to use your Anti-spam plugin on three of my blogs, and a different plugin on the other four blogs.
After trialling them both over the past weeks I can say that yours is far more effective at stopping spam getting through, and, it requires far less work to set up.
Many thanks, I'll now be using it on all of my blogs.
Hi,
I'm having a problem with comment posting on my site.
I've narrowed it down to the anti-spam plugin. If I disable the plugin, comments work fine.
Here is the problem:
If someone tries to comment/reply on a post I get the following error.
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Go back and try again.
Error: empty answer. []
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My site is http://renaissance-dan.com
Any idea what's happening?
Thanks, Dan.
You are using jetpack comments.
Sorry, but Anti-spam plugin does not work with it.
You comment form is inserted via iframe - http://jetpack.wordpress.com/jetpack-comment/?blogid=55027708&postid=2…748b25e2dad3206#parent=http%3A%2F%2Frenaissance-dan.com%2F%3Fpage_id%3D214
You should remove anti-spam plugin from your site and find another solution that work with jetpack comments.
Installed your spam blocker and had instant results. I was getting hundreds of spam each week now nothing! thank you!
Thanks man for the great solution, now i am free of that thrash in 99.99%!
Mi
I installed your plugin and it does not work, I can see no entry for current 'year' only an extra form entry for 'website' This 'website' comment area also remains after I uninstalled your plug-in, Can you please give me directions as to how to remove all of your plugin from my website
You will not see 'year question' visually, you could only see 2 extra inputs in the html source of the page. More info how anti-spam plugin works.
Anti-spam plugin does not add website-area to comment form. It is the default WordPress input and it is not connected to Anti-spam plugin.
Anti-spam blocks spam invisibly for users. So if you stop receiving the spam than plugin works.
If you have more questions than submit link to the website and I will try to help.
I am using your plugin and it has completely stopped the spam thanks so much!
Great!
brilliant!
My life nearly felt 'empty' not having to manually delete scores of daily spam comments.
And not forcing users to do more than just comment.
genious!
thank you.