Best anti-spam plugins for WordPress

Akismet Anti-spam

#8

by Automattic2 months ago

The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.

Antispam Bee

#84

by pluginkollektiv2 months ago

Sophisticated antispam plugin for effective daily comment and trackback spam-fighting. Built with data protection and privacy in mind.

WP Armour

#141

by Dinesh Karki2 months ago

Fastest growing Anti Spam plugin. No API calls, subscriptions, captcha or puzzle. Full GDPR complaint. For comments, contact form, login, registration

CF7 Apps

#156

by Saad Iqbal13 days ago

Add hCaptcha, Honeypot, Redirection, and AI-powered form generation to Contact Form 7.

Anti-Spam, Spam FireWall by CleanTalk

Down in the last 7 days:1#239

by CleanTalk Inc13 days ago

Advanced antispam for comments, registrations & contact forms. No CAPTCHA, plus email validation and honeypot. We catch spam others miss!

CloudSecure WP Security

Up in the last 7 days:3#280

by XServer28 days ago

CloudSecure WP Securityは、管理画面とログインURLをサイバー攻撃から守る、国産・日本語対応のセキュリティ対策プラグインです。 簡単な設定だけで、不正アクセスや不正ログインからWordPressを保護し、サイトのセキュリティを高めます。

Gravity Forms Zero Spam

#453

by GravityKit2 months ago

Block form spam in Gravity Forms with an invisible token check, email rejection rules, and optional AI review. No CAPTCHAs for your visitors.

Email Encoder

Up in the last 7 days:3#463

by Online Optimisation1 month ago

Protect email addresses and phone numbers on your site and hide them from spambots. Easy to use & flexible.

Spam Protection

Up in the last 7 days:4#986

by yonifretoday

Blocks spam the moment you activate it. No CAPTCHA, no setup, no API key. Multi-Layer. Just install and forget.

Blackhole for Bad Bots

Down in the last 7 days:3#1,043

by Jeff Starr4 days ago

Blackhole is a WordPress security plugin that detects and traps bad bots in a virtual black hole, where they are denied access to your entire site.

Stop Spammers Classic

Down in the last 7 days:3#1,106

by Web Guy6 days ago

A simplified, restored, and preserved version of the original Stop Spammers plugin.

Zero Spam for WordPress

Down in the last 7 days:3#1,201

by Highfivery Studio7 days ago

Free anti-spam for WordPress comments, logins, registrations and forms. No captchas, no moderation queue. Blocks bots before they post.

Honeypot Anti-Spam

Up in the last 7 days:2#1,699

by RaiolaNetworks5 months ago

Stop comment spam in WordPress with the honeypot technique. No captcha, no setup, lightweight and invisible to your visitors.

WPBruiser Security

Up in the last 7 days:3#1,792

by WPZOOM4 days ago

Security and anti-spam without CAPTCHA. Blocks bots on forms, comments and logins, limits login attempts and hardens WordPress. No outside service.

ActiveLayer Anti-Spam

Up in the last 7 days:41#1,840

by Syed Balkhi2 days ago

Intelligent spam protection for WordPress forms, comments, and reviews. No CAPTCHA needed. Works with WPForms, Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, and more.

Forget Spam Comment

Down in the last 7 days:3#2,207

by Gulshan Kumar1 year ago

The ultimate solution to stop spam comments in the default commenting system of WordPress

Comment Link Remove and Other Comment Tools

Up in the last 7 days:1#2,335

by QuantumCloud1 month ago

Remove Comment Author Link & Links from Comments, Unlink, Disable Comments, Delete All Pending Comments. AI Auto Comment Reply, Voice, Attachments

oopspam Anti-Spam

Up in the last 7 days:3#2,714

by oopspam Team5 days ago

Protect your forms from spam with 99.9% accuracy - no CAPTCHA, no JavaScript, no tracking. Trusted by 3.5M+ websites.

Spam Destroyer

Up in the last 7 days:9#2,961

by Ryan Hellyer6 months ago

Kills spam dead in it's tracks. Be gone evil demon spam!

Invisible Anti-Spam & CAPTCHA

Up in the last 7 days:18#3,192

by Matthias Nordwig6 days ago

Invisible spam protection for every form, login and checkout. No puzzles, no checkboxes, no lost visitors — a CAPTCHA your users never see.

Dam Spam

Up in the last 7 days:62#3,659

by Web Guy7 days ago

Spam protection for WordPress registration, login, comments, and contact forms.

BotBlocker Security

Up in the last 7 days:2#3,698

by Yevhen Leonidov2 days ago

Complete security platform for everyday: block bots, brute-force, viruses, spam, fake crawlers. WAF, 2FA, no-malware, proactive defense.

La Sentinelle antispam

Down in the last 7 days:8#3,974

by Marcel Pol22 days ago

Feel safe knowing that your website is safe from spam. La Sentinelle will guard your WordPress website against spam in a simple and effective way.

Email Address Obfuscation

Up in the last 7 days:1#4,476

by Neotrendy3 days ago

Protects email addresses and phone numbers from harvesting bots by encoding them as HTML entities, while keeping them readable for visitors.

IP Ban

Down in the last 7 days:10#4,807

by Sandor Kovacs9 years ago

Simple IP Ban is a lightweight ip / user agent ban plugin.

Universal Honey Pot

Up in the last 7 days:4#5,083

by Ludwig You1 year ago

Universal Honey Pot is a powerful and user-friendly WordPress plugin that provides a plug-and-play solution for protecting your forms against unwanted …

Anti-Spam Protection

Up in the last 7 days:8#5,420

by fullworks22 days ago

Block spam on Contact Form 7, WPForms & comments. No API key. GDPR compliant. Free for commercial use. No configuration needed.

Restrict Usernames Emails Characters

Down in the last 7 days:19#5,444

by Benaceur28 days ago

Restrict the usernames, email addresses, characters and symbols or email from specific domain names or language in registration ...

Disable WP Registration Page Spam

Down in the last 7 days:13#5,912

by Subodh Ghulaxe2 years ago

Disable default WordPress registration page, remove register link and stop registration spam, without disabling user registration.

Easy Spam Filter

Up in the last 7 days:20#6,098

by WPPOOL5 months ago

Add Cloudflare Turnstile to WordPress, Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, WPForms, BuddyPress & Elementor. A CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA alternative for WordPress.

Human Presence

Down in the last 7 days:49#6,412

by humanpresence2 years ago

The #1 Plugin for Blocking Form Spam on WordPress

Anti-Captcha (anti-spam botblocker)

Down in the last 7 days:7#6,634

by filiw9 years ago

Anti-Captcha is a transparent spam solution that does not require any end-user interaction.

Kitgenix CAPTCHA for Cloudflare Turnstile

Up in the last 7 days:50#7,601

by Kitgenix12 days ago

Add Cloudflare Turnstile to WordPress, WooCommerce and popular forms with server-side verification and anti-spam controls.

CM E-Mail Blacklist

Up in the last 7 days:28#7,639

by CreativeMindsSolutions29 days ago

Block unwanted email registrations on your site with this email blacklist plugin. Protect your site by preventing spam sign-ups.

WP referrer spam blacklist (fight 2040+ Referrer Spammers in (Google/Matomo) Analytics)

Up in the last 7 days:14#8,188

by Umbrovskis.com5 years ago

WordPress plugin to fight with 2040+ referrer spammers (like semalt, buttons-for-website and many more).

OpenPorte Spam Protection

Up in the last 7 days:445#8,283

by J-C Berthon2 days ago

Stop spam without CAPTCHAs. Proof-of-Work protection for your forms and logins. Open-source, self-hosted, privacy-first.

Essential Form

Up in the last 7 days:9#8,505

by Jose Mortellaro4 days ago

The lightest contact form for WordPress. It's so essential you'll either love it or hate it. Ultra lightweight and no spam.

En Spam

Up in the last 7 days:6#8,988

by hatul1 month ago

Block spam with cookies and JavaScript. All Spambots will remain away from your blog. Without settings or Captcha, install and forget the spam.

Comments

Down in the last 7 days:22#9,406

by graphcomment1 day ago

Don't disable comments — fix them. AI-assisted moderation, zero spam, ad-free — syncs back to your WordPress database. The Disqus alternative.

Antispam

Up in the last 7 days:42#9,516

by Eugen Bobrowski10 years ago

Anti-spam check the robots by behavior. No captcha. Antispam let robots do so as a human can't do.

EZ Anti-Spam Comments with reCAPTCHA

Up in the last 7 days:8#10,736

by Eli1 year ago

A simple yet effective Spam Filter. A Widget and Shortcode to display Comments with Good Karma as Testimonials. Plus the ability to Move comments and …

Send Denial

Up in the last 7 days:38#11,062

by Julian Lang1 year ago

Anti-Spam protection for the most popular and widly used formbuilders and plugins. GDPR compliant.

BuddyPress Security Check

Down in the last 7 days:18#11,367

by Shea Bunge8 years ago

Combat spam registrations for a BuddyPress-powered site using Google's reCAPTCHA

Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks

Down in the last 7 days:5#11,570

by Ajay7 days ago

Auto-Close keeps your site clean by automatically closing comments, pingbacks, and trackbacks—so you can focus on content, not cleanup.

Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam

Up in the last 7 days:21#11,742

by Peter1 year ago

Stop a lot of spambots from polluting your site by making visitors identify a custom word displayed as an image before commenting.

MP Spam Be Gone

Up in the last 7 days:21#11,811

by MikesPickz5 years ago

MP Spam Be Gone is the simplest, most effective Spam blocker.

BuddyPress reCAPTCHA

Up in the last 7 days:218#11,986

by algorhythm15 years ago

This plugin utilizes reCAPTCHA to help your blog stay clear of spam-registrations.

I don't like Spam!

Up in the last 7 days:8#12,307

by them.es9 months ago

Use the Comment Blocklist feature to protect your contact form.

Limit Login Attempts (Spam Protection)

Down in the last 7 days:83#12,478

by wp-buy1 year ago

Limit rate of login attempts, including by way of cookies, for each IP. Fully customizable.

Classic Honeypot for CF7

Up in the last 7 days:2,889#12,566

by Nilo Velez12 days ago

A lean honeypot anti-spam field for Contact Form 7. A fork of the classic Honeypot for Contact Form 7 by Nocean, with no extra modules.