Best anti-spam plugins for WordPress
234 plugins tagged “anti-spam” on WordPress.org, in its popular order and updated daily. Research this niche or see all plugins.

LH Zero Spam
Down in the last 7 days:17#13,001by shawfactor4 years ago
Zero Spam makes blocking spam comments and registrations easy.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Auto Approve Comments
Up in the last 7 days:15#13,092by Federico Andrioli5 years ago
Auto approve comments by Commenter (email, name, url), User and Role (Akismet and wpDiscuz compatible)
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

ReportedIP Hive
Up in the last 7 days:86#13,272by Patrick Schlesingertoday
Firewall, limit login attempts, 2FA with passkeys and anti-spam for comments and forms without CAPTCHA. Optional IP blocklist. GDPR-first.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 46/day
BuddyPress Captcha
Down in the last 7 days:5#13,464by Hardeep Asrani11 years ago
This plugin adds Google's reCAPTCHA form to your BuddyPress' registration page to keep your community spam-free! You can use out simple opti …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.1(12)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Protect My Infos
Up in the last 7 days:88#13,580by Yuga Web2 months ago
Protect sensitive information like emails and phone numbers from bots with advanced obfuscation techniques.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

UserCheck
Up in the last 7 days:240#13,920by UserCheck2 months ago
Block disposable and throwaway email addresses on your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Spambargo
Down in the last 7 days:86#13,963by Aviv Digital23 days ago
Block spam in Elementor, Contact Form 7, JetFormBuilder, Ninja Forms, WooCommerce and comments with keyword, link and email checks.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Astounding Spam Prevention
Down in the last 7 days:13#14,285by willjenkins2 years ago
Very effective anti-spam plugin that eliminates comment spam, and registration spam. Combines many effective methods for identifying spammers and keep …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.6(9)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Spam Comment Remover
Down in the last 7 days:94#15,006by Sahil Dadwal11 months ago
Automatically remove spam comments without Akismet. Universal spam detection that blocks junk, hidden links, fake names, gibberish, and automated subm …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Spam Filter For Elementor Form
Up in the last 7 days:20#15,274by wizbee IT1 year ago
A simple yet powerful plugin that adds advanced spam and content filtration to your Elementor Pro forms.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Web Ok Honeypot Lite for CF7
Up in the last 7 days:160#15,484by weboksolutions6 months ago
Lightweight honeypot spam protection for Contact Form 7. Zero config — just add [honeypot] to your form.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day

NO admin premium NAGS
Up in the last 7 days:50#15,881by kontur.us2 years ago
Simply stop the abusive admin nags from All in One SEO plugin and as well from YOAST Seo! Plus: Add your own CSS to the Admin Area.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Spam Free
Down in the last 7 days:39#16,239by pekeltje14 years ago
Get your Wordpress Blog Spam-Free with this plugin.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Byteplant Email Validator
Down in the last 7 days:80#16,542by byteplant2 months ago
With the Byteplant Email Validator plugin you can easily verify with a real-time live check if an email address really exists and is valid (https://ww …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.8(9)
- Downloads
- 5/day

Checkout Guard
Down in the last 7 days:60#16,695by The WP Garden14 days ago
Block fake and spam WooCommerce orders at checkout. Stop disposable email, junk names, bad IPs, and countries you don't sell to.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Remove Website Link Field From Comment Section
Down in the last 7 days:3#17,076by Gobinda Tarafdar2 years ago
Remove Website Link Field From Comment Section is a simple plug & play plugin. It removes website link input field from the comment section.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Exact Match Disallowed Comment & Contact Forms
Down in the last 7 days:11#17,131by Ryan Howard11 months ago
Change the default WordPress comment blocklist functionality to exact match and save entries marked as spam for review.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day
bbPress reCaptcha
Down in the last 7 days:30#17,142by Pippin Williamson12 years ago
This is a simple plugin that adds a recaptcha validation to the bbPress 2.0 topic creation and topic reply forum.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

BotShield CAPTCHA for Contact Form 7
Up in the last 7 days:350#17,218by R.Sabbir2 months ago
Anti-spam CAPTCHA plugin for Contact Form 7. Block bots using Cloudflare Turnstile, Google reCAPTCHA, and built-in Arithmetic CAPTCHA challenges.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

SpamKill
Down in the last 7 days:128#17,229by spamkill1 month ago
Anti-spam & spam protection for comments and WooCommerce reviews. No CAPTCHA, no signup, no API key. Just activate. 99.9% accurate, free forever.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
IP Ban
Down in the last 7 days:79#17,620by w3prodigy16 years ago
Returns 'Page Not Found' 404 error message for IP's visiting your blog specified in the IP Ban option on the Discussion Options page.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Antispam for all fields
Up in the last 7 days:77#17,697by ramon fincken8 years ago
Plugin to reject spam. Port from same author from http://www.phpbbantispam.com Actually visits the URL from commenter to spider for spamwords.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Mail Cloak
#17,730by Rizonepress1 year ago
Advanced email protection with intelligent bot detection and automated security monitoring for WordPress websites.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Stop Search Spam
Up in the last 7 days:366#17,753by RockStarLab2 months ago
The plugin blocks internal site search spam (what lowers your site's ranking in the Google).
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
NIX Anti-Spam Light
Up in the last 7 days:111#17,839by NIX Solutions Ltd12 years ago
Easy-to-use tool to get rid of spam attacking your website AntiSpamLight is developed to help you to forget about annoying spam bots! No more spam and …
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
CaptchaFox for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:129#17,933by Scoria Labs GmbH1 month ago
CaptchaFox is an easy-to-use and GDPR compliant bot protection service. Protect your WordPess forms from malicious bot traffic!
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Block Spam Comment
Down in the last 7 days:45#18,464by poku7 years ago
Block spam comments definitely without settings or Captcha.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

TechArk Spam Shield for Contact Form 7
Down in the last 7 days:114#18,835by TechArk Solutions3 months ago
A powerful spam protection plugin for Contact Form 7 that blocks bots, spam submissions, VPN users, repeated attempts, and automated attacks — without …
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

CAPTCHA Solution
Down in the last 7 days:255#19,168by essitco8 years ago
CAPTCHA Solution is a CAPTCHA module intended to be called from other plugins. It is originally created for my Contact Form 7 plugin.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Formidable Anti-Spam
Up in the last 7 days:74#19,696by thomstark12 years ago
A lightweight Formidable Pro anti-spam add-on that requires no interaction with the user.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Turbo Ecommerce
Up in the last 7 days:41#20,776by Turbo2 years ago
Turbo plugin helps you integrate your WooCommerce website with the Turbo shipping system.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Mailgun Email Validator
Down in the last 7 days:224#20,833by Jesin A9 years ago
Kick spam with a highly advanced email validation in comment forms, user registration and contact forms using Mailgun's Email validation service.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 4.1(25)
- Downloads
- 3/day

Botfaqtor Code
Up in the last 7 days:54#21,277by botfaqtor1 year ago
Интеграция сервиса Botfaqtor для защиты сайта от ботов.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Spam Notifier
Up in the last 7 days:104#22,433by Flector1 year ago
The plugin sends an email message when a comment goes to the spam folder.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 3/day

Contact Form Zero
Up in the last 7 days:228#22,539by Web Guy3 months ago
Add a stupidly simple and lightweight contact form to your website with [contact-form-zero].
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 4/day

FW Tools for Elementor Forms
Up in the last 7 days:737#23,167by Olaf Lederer1 day ago
Spam protection, IP and email request limiting, local spam logs, and an optional review-before-send step for Elementor Pro forms.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Language-based Comment Spam Condom
Down in the last 7 days:100#23,618by blackmelvyn15 years ago
This plugin prevents comments spamming using language verification.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day
Hashcash for Contact Form 7
Down in the last 7 days:92#23,753by Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq13 years ago
Add Hashcash spam protection to Contact Form 7.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

GravityCaptcha
Down in the last 7 days:465#23,789by Frog Eat Fly3 years ago
Description: Get rid of Gravity Forms spam submissions with GravityCaptcha!
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WhoKnew Shield
Up in the last 7 days:236#23,795by WhoKnew.io2 months ago
Security plugin blocking spam bots from harvesting email addresses, phone numbers & addresses. Dual-layer anti-spam protection with auto-detection.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Berestov Anti-spam for Contact Form 7
Down in the last 7 days:96#23,869by andreyberestov2 months ago
Protect Contact Form 7 and optionally WordPress comments with privacy-friendly anti-spam protection.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 4/day

Gatekeep
Up in the last 7 days:3,797#23,912by gatekeepwp8 days ago
Free CAPTCHA for every form. Invisible anti-spam plus reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Turnstile or 5 built-in CAPTCHAs for Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, comments.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

blanc Honeypot for Contact Form 7
Up in the last 7 days:831#24,002by blancto1 month ago
A lightweight, invisible honeypot field for Contact Form 7 that helps reduce automated spam submissions without CAPTCHAs.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

NoCaptcha Spam Filter for Contact Form 7
Up in the last 7 days:483#24,665by pontocinza6 months ago
Honeypot, signed security tokens, and anti-replay protection for Contact Form 7. Built for performance and full-page cache compatibility.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Anti-Spam Filter for Gravity Forms
Down in the last 7 days:49#24,856by teamtp1 year ago
A lightweight anti-spam solution for Gravity Forms that blocks unwanted submissions using keyword filtering and Cyrillic text detection.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 2.0(1)
- Downloads
- 3/day

DigiNex Spam Guard
#24,911by DigiNex12 days ago
Invisible, CAPTCHA-free spam protection for Elementor, Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms, Forminator, comments and sign-ups.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 8/day

Kianimr Form Arithmetic Challenge for Elementor
Up in the last 7 days:2,566#25,483by kianimr2 months ago
Adds a simple math question to every Elementor form automatically. Lightweight, cache friendly and with no third-party service.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Super CAPTCHA Security Suite
Down in the last 7 days:153#25,742by Mike W10 years ago
Scientifically proven by research from the University of Wollongong as the most secure text-based 3D CAPTCHA available -- on the most simple settings.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

BWG CF Turnstile
Up in the last 7 days:96#26,275by timh1 year ago
Add Cloudflare Turnstile protection to your Gravity Forms to prevent spam and bot submissions.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Turnstile Pro
#26,359by Nurul Islam10 months ago
Lightweight, easy-to-configure Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA protection for WordPress login, registration, comments, and password reset forms.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day