Best antibot plugins for WordPress
The most popular antibot plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Spam Master leads with 200+ active installs, ahead of Good Question (90+) and wk-email-antibot (40+). All 5 plugins tagged “antibot” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 antibot plugins
- 1.
Spam MasterThe most installed antibot plugin, with 200+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 72 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Good Question90+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 13 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 3.wk-email-antibot
40+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.04.
- 4.
ZeroBot SecurityFewer than 10 active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 1 month ago.
All 5 plugins tagged “antibot”

Spam Master
Down in the last 7 days:65#12,473by TechGasp2 months ago
Real-time firewall and anti-spam for WordPress. Block spam bots, comments, logins & registrations. No CAPTCHA, no slowdown.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.2(72)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Good Question
Down in the last 7 days:111#17,048by Artem Frolov6 years ago
Simple plugin to stop spam comments and registrations on your site. Adds a question field on the form, easy for humans, but not solvable for the bots.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.6(13)
- Downloads
- 0/day
wk-email-antibot
Down in the last 7 days:137#22,519by maxemil16 years ago
Simply enables WordPress shortcode for easily letting you camouflage an email address, hiding it from crawling spiders and bots.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

ZeroBot Security
Down in the last 7 days:13,695#74,029by ZeroBot1 month ago
Free brute-force login protection and XML-RPC blocking, plus an optional bot firewall backed by the live ZeroBot threat network.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day