Best anti-spam plugins for WordPress

MUTE

Up in the last 7 days:2,519#26,602

by Masahiro Matsuzaki2 days ago

Stop spam and AI bot attacks from your contact forms. No CAPTCHA, no friction. Bots are blocked silently while real inquiries get through.

SolverGuard Spam Shield

Up in the last 7 days:111#26,913

by solverwp4 months ago

The most complete free WordPress anti-spam plugin. Protects Contact Form 7, comments, login, registration, REST API, and XML-RPC — all in one shield.

Fancy Captcha

Up in the last 7 days:538#26,921

by leo10814 years ago

Fancy Captcha is a jQuery plugin that helps you protect your web pages from bots and spammers. 通过拖动解锁来实现评论验证。

Never Loose Contact Form

Down in the last 7 days:39#27,119

by andy_moyle1 year ago

Spam proof contact form that emails you the message and saves it in database.

Concise Antispam

Down in the last 7 days:304#27,880

by Concise Studio4 years ago

Very simple antispam plugin. Users do not need to enter any captcha, working completely on background. No need to administer: just install the plugin …

CaptchaFlow

Up in the last 7 days:320#28,192

by Template Sell2 months ago

Protect Contact Form 7, WPForms, WooCommerce, login, comments and more with Cloudflare Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, or no-signup challenges.

SimpleForm Akismet

Down in the last 7 days:74#28,219

by WPSForm2 years ago

Do you get junk emails through your contact form? This plugin for SimpleForm helps prevent spam submission.

CIDRAM

Down in the last 7 days:759#28,536

by Maikuolan3 days ago

CIDRAM: A PHP-level CIDR/IP-based firewall solution.

Contact Camo

Up in the last 7 days:356#28,760

by Plan Left4 months ago

Contact Camo protects email addresses from scrapers and bots — now with a native Gutenberg block so you can build beautiful, protected contact experie …

FormShield

Down in the last 7 days:9#29,007

by GDimitrov6 months ago

FormShield protects your forms from bot spam using advanced pattern matching and behavioral analysis. No annoying captchas, unlimited forms.

AntiSpam Shield by LukaCodes

Up in the last 7 days:30#29,127

by LukaCodes5 months ago

Block comment spam, brute-force logins and bot registrations with reCAPTCHA v3 or Cloudflare Turnstile. Lightweight, no bloat.

Nullis Shield

#29,221

by Edward Samuel (Enigmaking)1 month ago

A Prevention-First security engine that eliminates bots before they hit your database. Lightweight, zero-bloat, and incredibly fast.

JG Spam Fighter

Up in the last 7 days:208#29,261

by Jay Gaura7 years ago

A simple to use plugin that helps you keep your WordPress site clean of spam comments.

No Spam AI

Down in the last 7 days:496#29,310

by nospamai1 year ago

AI-powered spam filtering for Gravity Forms. Automatically detects and blocks spam submissions using advanced AI algorithms.

Simon's Simple Contact Form

Up in the last 7 days:317#29,719

by Simon Ward8 months ago

A lightweight WordPress contact form plugin with 18 themes, SMTP support, Google reCAPTCHA or internal captcha, and instant theme switching.

Artiman Guard

Up in the last 7 days:1,206#30,075

by ArtimanWeb16 days ago

Self-hosted form abuse protection, registration firewall, 404 bot shield and SEO crawl protection.

WPCoreTools Disposable Email Guard

#30,090

by Wp Core Tools16 days ago

Block disposable, burner, and temp-mail addresses on WordPress and WooCommerce sign-ups, comments, checkout, and any custom form. Works fully offline.

GB Anti-Spam for Contact Form 7

#30,115

by gregbialowas4 months ago

Lightweight anti-spam protection for Contact Form 7 without CAPTCHA. More details: https://gregbialowas.com/anti-spam-cf7

WPCoreTools Email Verify

#31,022

by Wp Core Tools16 days ago

Simple email verification for WordPress and WooCommerce. Click-a-link confirmation — no OTP, no popup, no third-party API.

Blueforce Spam Protect

Down in the last 7 days:102#31,261

by blueforce6 days ago

Blocks form and comment spam without captcha. All checks run on your own server, your visitors' messages never go to an external service.

hostily Captcha

Up in the last 7 days:40,844#31,469

by connect - Media & Teledienst4 days ago

Spam protection for comments, login, registration, WooCommerce and form plugins. Hosted in Germany, no cookies, no image puzzles.

Super Simple SPAM Stopper

Up in the last 7 days:259#32,976

by bgribaudo11 years ago

Prevents automated SPAM by requiring visitors to answer a question of your choosing (plaintext or regex).

Kratos Anti Spam

#33,066

by softpill.eu11 years ago

Stop SPAM! Stop HAKING! No annoying CAPTCHA for your users! As simple as that!

Defer for Contact Form 7

Down in the last 7 days:1,181#34,489

by Ryabinin Vitalii6 days ago

Takes Contact Form 7 off the critical rendering path: moves its head scripts to the footer and loads the form CSS asynchronously. No PageSpeed hit.

EmailToAscii

#36,373

by Bensventures16 years ago

EmailToAscii replaces email addresses in the content (post or page) by their ascii translation in order to avoid spam bots.

BJH Website Assistant

Up in the last 7 days:5,106#37,343

by bjhee10 years ago

The WordPress plugin that provides small functions to help your website working better.

Back List

#38,001

by w3prodigy16 years ago

Adds Whitelist and Blacklist options for Trackbacks and Pingbacks

FreeContactFormDotCom

#38,755

by freecontactform6 years ago

A simple free contact form with text-based spam prevention.

Sergeev Studio Captcha for Elementor Forms with Yandex SmartCaptcha

#39,585

by sergeev.studio1 month ago

Invisible bot and spam protection for Elementor Pro forms using Yandex SmartCaptcha.

SecureFusion

#40,327

by fyndsoft3 months ago

Lightweight, high-performance security suite. Protects from brute-force logins, DDoS pingbacks, bad request injections, and manages CSP headers.

Tiny Comment Spam Blocker

Up in the last 7 days:439#40,686

by Kasuga2 months ago

A simple and lightweight yet rock-solid plugin that blocks comment spam using multiple automatic detection methods.

WPCF7 Anti-spam

#40,770

by cronagency6 years ago

Upload wpcf7_antispam folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress Configure the …

WP Slider Captcha

#40,838

by captbrogers14 years ago

An anti-spam captcha using jQuery's UI slider. After the position of the slider is past 60% (default), it will enable the submit button.

Radical

#41,162

by Carlos Martinez4 years ago

Use Radical to block spam comments

SpamShieldX

Down in the last 7 days:1,744#41,569

by Alireza Nejati1 year ago

SpamShieldX is the ultimate solution for protecting your WordPress website from spam and iframe abuse. Our plugin blocks malicious iframes and prevent …

Block Referers

Up in the last 7 days:2,694#41,776

by Ethan Allen6 years ago

Block unwanted visitors from viewing your WordPress site.

WPMU Block Spam By Math

#42,180

by jwpegram16 years ago

This plugin protects your WPMU signup process against spambots with a simple math question.

Form Guardian for Contact Form 7

Up in the last 7 days:633#42,711

by sandeepkamp4 months ago

Stop Contact Form 7 spam with honeypot protection, automatic IP blocking, duplicate submission prevention, disposable email filtering, rate limiting, …

1on1 Secure

Up in the last 7 days:1,434#43,634

by 1on1secure2 years ago

Visitor verification and screening for known bad actors. No CAPTCHA required to prevent comment spam, prevent contact page spam, and reduce wordpress …

Analytical Spam Filter

#43,635

by John Dalesandro5 months ago

Stop spam without making your visitors prove they're human. No captchas, no accounts, and no external services required.

BuddyPress XProfile Validate with RegEx

#43,729

by Tomasz Ostrowski11 years ago

BuddyPress - Validate XProfile data with PCRE regular expressions.

Lemin Cropped Captcha

Down in the last 7 days:3,187#44,459

by Lemin Now, Inc.2 years ago

Lemin Captcha is uniquely playful, robust, and effective. Through gamification, we are curing the pains of traditional CAPTCHA.

Fstyle Honeypot Bot Blocker

#44,747

by fstylegear095432 days ago

Blocks bad bots and vulnerability scanners by IP when they hit a robots.txt trap or probe .env, .git or wp-config backups. No external service.

Chinese Comment Spam Protection

#45,162

by joe03110216 years ago

Asks the visitor making the comment to key in the disappeared chinese word. This is intended to prove that the visitor is a human being but a spam rob …

GNA Google reCAPTCHA

Down in the last 7 days:1,322#45,543

by Chris Mok10 years ago

This plugin allows you to implement Google reCAPTCHA (CAPTCHA) into your web forms.

WP-Mail-Validator

Down in the last 7 days:3,176#45,838

by kimpenhaus6 years ago

WP-Mail-Validator is an anti-spam plugin. It provides mail-address validation in 5 ways:

ClickChina

Down in the last 7 days:11,142#46,103

by q40964097615 years ago

防止垃圾评论插件,点击正确的图形提交评论,仿"Clickcha"(Click on the Right picture to submit comments,to prevent spam comments,as clickcha)

Bolcal Anti Spam

Up in the last 7 days:1,934#46,442

by BOLCAL6 months ago

Free anti-spam protection for WooCommerce, WordPress registration forms, and Contact Form 7 forms.

Hsoub CAPTCHA

#46,517

by web2dev15 years ago

A simple comment captcha protection.

adCAPTCHA for WordPress

Down in the last 7 days:2,478#46,579

by adCAPTCHA1 year ago

Secure your site. Elevate your brand. Boost Ad Revenue.