Best antispambot plugins for WordPress
The most popular antispambot plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. wk-email-antibot leads with 40+ active installs, ahead of Extended Antispambot (10+). All 2 plugins tagged “antispambot” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 antispambot plugins
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wk-email-antibotThe most installed antispambot plugin, with 40+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.04.
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Extended Antispambot10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
All 2 plugins tagged “antispambot”
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
Extended Antispambot
#44,695by amit52043 years ago
Obfuscation of email via the [antispambot]...[/antispambot] shortcode syntax using built-in Wordpress Codex functionality.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day