WP Spam Fighter WordPress Plugin
Comment spam prevention without moderation, captchas or questions
This plugins prevents comment spam without requiring you to moderate all comments or your users to use user-unfriendly captchas or answer stupid arithmetic questions.
It works using two methods (which can be combined). It boils down to the following behavioral patterns normal comment authors (not spammers) will have:
- Normal users actually do read your post, which takes time. So someone sending a comment only a few seconds after having loaded the post has to be a spammer.
- Normal users do not fill fields which are not visible.
The first mechanism basically notes down when the page was loaded and when the comment was posted. When the comment is posted, if the timestamps are missing or if the user didn't spend enough time on the page, the comment posting will fail. The great thing about this approach is that it not only stops bots but also hum
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Usage of WP Spam Fighter over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 200 to 169 — down 31 (-15.5%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 169 | -10 |
| June 2024 | 179 | -2 |
| May 2024 | 181 | +3 |
| April 2024 | 178 | +4 |
| March 2024 | 174 | +1 |
| February 2024 | 173 | -5 |
| January 2024 | 178 | -4 |
| December 2023 | 182 | +5 |
| November 2023 | 177 | +3 |
| October 2023 | 174 | -7 |
| September 2023 | 181 | -10 |
| August 2023 | 191 | -8 |
| July 2023 | 199 | -1 |
| June 2023 | 200 | — |
Themes used with WP Spam Fighter
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis |
| 2 | Divi |
| 3 | Dynamik-gen |
| 4 | Avada |
| 5 | Hueman |
| 6 | Enfold |
| 7 | Avada-child-theme |
| 8 | Sensetheme |
| 9 | Betheme |
| 10 | Enfold-child |
| 11 | Dt-the7 |
| 12 | Pinboard |
| 13 | Soledad |
| 14 | X |
| 15 | Fox |
| 16 | Roots |
| 17 | Mobius-child |
| 18 | Musictank |
| 19 | Mobius |
| 20 | X-child-renew |
Sites running WP Spam Fighter
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