Spam Free WordPress WordPress Plugin
Todd Lahman's comment spam blocking plugin that blocks automated spam with zero false positives.
Spam Free WordPress works well to block spam from most blogs, but some blogs that are targeted by spammers, need a much more powerful solution like Simple Comments.
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Spam Free WordPress is a weak free spam protection plugin. Upgrade to Simple Comments for extremely powerful spambot and hackbot protection.
Simple Comments Provides 99.9% - 100% Spambot and Hackbot Protection for the Following Forms
Please note: Simple Comments is a different plugin from Spam Free WordPress. The description below is for Simple Comments.
- WordPress Comment form (Spambot protection)
- Gravity For
AJAX
Akismet
anti-spam
antispam
Antispam Bee
AVH First Defense
Bad Behavior
blacklist
block spam
Block Spam By Math Reloaded
blocklist
bot
captcha
comment
comment love
comment luv
comment spam
commentlove
commentluv
comments
defensio
growmap
mollom
NoSpamNX
pingbacks
rbl
recaptcha
remote proxy
sabre
security
SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
spam
Spam Free
spam free wordpress
spambot
Spammer Blocker
trackbacks
w3 total cache
wp-spamfree
wp-super-cache
Sites running Spam Free WordPress, click to open one
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Usage of Spam Free WordPress over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 160 to 111 — down 49 (-30.6%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 111 | -9 |
| June 2024 | 120 | -3 |
| May 2024 | 123 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 123 | +2 |
| March 2024 | 121 | -3 |
| February 2024 | 124 | -8 |
| January 2024 | 132 | -3 |
| December 2023 | 135 | -1 |
| November 2023 | 136 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 136 | -10 |
| September 2023 | 146 | -12 |
| August 2023 | 158 | -2 |
| July 2023 | 160 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 160 | — |
Themes used with Spam Free WordPress
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Labwork |
| 2 | Twentyeleven |
| 3 | Genesis |
| 4 | Twentyten |
| 5 | Twentythirteen |
| 6 | Divi |
| 7 | Lightly |
| 8 | Graphene |
| 9 | Evolve |
| 10 | Thesis_18 |
| 11 | Dmxis2 |
| 12 | Modernize |
| 13 | Dynamik-gen |
| 14 | Weaver-ii-pro |
| 15 | React_pro |
| 16 | Doveandolive |
| 17 | Modest |
| 18 | Bold5.9 |
| 19 | Magazine-basic |
| 20 | Theme1477 |
Sites running Spam Free WordPress
All sites in the collection100 examples from the collection. Open any site to see the theme and plugins we found on it.
