Best honeypot plugins for WordPress
The most popular honeypot plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. CF7 Apps leads with 300K+ active installs, ahead of Gravity Forms Zero Spam (100K+) and Spam Protection (30K+). All 68 plugins tagged “honeypot” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 honeypot plugins
- 1.
CF7 AppsThe most installed honeypot plugin, with 300K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 135 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 2.
Gravity Forms Zero Spam100K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 24 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Spam Protection30K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 87 reviews, updated 1 day ago.
- 4.
Blackhole for Bad Bots30K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 148 reviews, updated 5 days ago.
- 5.Honeypot Anti-Spam
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 12 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 6.
SilentShield10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 24 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 7.AntiSpam for Contact Form 7
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 13 reviews, updated 6 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 8.
WP Spam Question Filter2K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 9.Antispam for Elementor Forms
1K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
Honeypot Anti Spam for Forminator Forms1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 17 hours ago.
All 68 plugins tagged “honeypot”

CF7 Apps
#156by Saad Iqbal13 days ago
Add hCaptcha, Honeypot, Redirection, and AI-powered form generation to Contact Form 7.
- Installs
- 300K+
- Rating
- 3.8(135)
- Downloads
- 4.5K/day

Gravity Forms Zero Spam
Down in the last 7 days:1#453by 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.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.3(24)
- Downloads
- 520/day

Spam Protection
Up in the last 7 days:5#984by yonifre1 day ago
Blocks spam the moment you activate it. No CAPTCHA, no setup, no API key. Multi-Layer. Just install and forget.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.7(87)
- Downloads
- 625/day

Blackhole for Bad Bots
Down in the last 7 days:1#1,043by Jeff Starr5 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.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.7(148)
- Downloads
- 171/day
Honeypot Anti-Spam
#1,699by RaiolaNetworks5 months ago
Stop comment spam in WordPress with the honeypot technique. No captcha, no setup, lightweight and invisible to your visitors.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(12)
- Downloads
- 47/day

SilentShield
Up in the last 7 days:6#1,763by Forge12 Interactive GmbH1 month ago
SilentShield – the invisible shield against spam. Spam is the weed of the internet. It clogs your forms, steals your time, and corrupts your data.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(24)
- Downloads
- 151/day
AntiSpam for Contact Form 7
Up in the last 7 days:6#1,818by Erik6 months ago
A trustworthy antispam plugin for Contact Form 7. Wave goodbye to spam and keep your inbox clean!
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.2(13)
- Downloads
- 74/day

WP Spam Question Filter
Down in the last 7 days:45#4,919by Otto Kekäläinen6 years ago
This plugin fights comment and registration spam on your website.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Antispam for Elementor Forms
Up in the last 7 days:58#5,519by Greyhound Studio3 months ago
Practical spam prevention for Elementor Forms, without relying on third-party services.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Honeypot Anti Spam for Forminator Forms
Up in the last 7 days:16#6,254by kgmservizitoday
A lightweight honeypot that blocks spam bots on Forminator contact, payment and custom forms. No captcha, no setup.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 17/day

Honeypot Plus for Contact Form 7
Up in the last 7 days:36#7,094by wpdebuglog9 months ago
Honeypot Plus for Contact Form 7 - Adds honeypot plus anti-spam functionality to Contact Form 7 forms.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Formidable Honeypot
Up in the last 7 days:8#9,636by WP-Biz (Ryan)12 years ago
Add SPAM protection to your Formidable forms without annoying your visitors with Captchas, math, or other fields.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Honeypot Toolkit
Down in the last 7 days:63#9,700by Jeff Sterup9 months ago
Automatically insert Project Honeypot links into your pages and block IP addresses that are listed on various block lists you can choose from.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.3(9)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Send Denial
Up in the last 7 days:75#11,050by Julian Lang1 year ago
Anti-Spam protection for the most popular and widly used formbuilders and plugins. GDPR compliant.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Honeypot Guard
Down in the last 7 days:48#11,286by MDigital24 days ago
Anti-spam protection for forms, signups, and comments using advanced honeypot techniques. No CAPTCHAs, no user friction.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Classic Honeypot for CF7
Up in the last 7 days:2,855#12,054by 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.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 34/day

Apio systems
Down in the last 7 days:101#14,532by Joris Le Blansch2 days ago
Basic Honeypot plugin for Contact Form 7 to drastically reduce spam on form submissions without user interaction.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Web Ok Honeypot Lite for CF7
Up in the last 7 days:254#15,363by 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

SpamJam
Down in the last 7 days:119#15,963by Matt Biscay6 days ago
Block comment and form spam without CAPTCHAs. Lightweight honeypot protection works automatically and keeps real visitors moving.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
AP HoneyPot WordPress Plugin
Up in the last 7 days:80#16,847by Denis V (Artprima)13 years ago
AP HoneyPot WordPress Plugin allows you to verify IP addresses of clients connecting to your blog against the Project Honey Pot database.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
JTZL's Bot Maze
Up in the last 7 days:186#21,277by jtzl2 months ago
AI bot protection through invisible trap link mazes — hidden links lure bots into a maze of fake content for detection and blocking.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

blanc Honeypot for Contact Form 7
Up in the last 7 days:782#23,697by 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

DigiNex Spam Guard
Down in the last 7 days:1#24,804by DigiNex13 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
- 11/day

Phone Validator for WPForms
Up in the last 7 days:143#25,955by Ilyntiy18 days ago
Stops junk phone numbers and bots in WPForms: number checks for any country, input mask, honeypot, per-IP limits and a submission history.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

DadsFam AntiSpam
Down in the last 7 days:435#26,469by dadsfam2 days ago
Stops form, comment and sign-up spam with honeypots, public spam lists and a self-learning filter, built never to turn a real person away.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
EDZNET Honeypot & Timing Guard
#26,585by EDZNET19 days ago
Adds a hidden honeypot field, a minimum-submit-time check, and content gibberish detection to every Contact Form 7 form. No configuration needed.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SolverGuard Spam Shield
Up in the last 7 days:139#26,836by 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.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Simple Spam Blocker
#27,054by Awais11 months ago
Simple Spam Blcoker stop spam comments and also can be used to stop bots to try to login into admin panel.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Init Void Shield
Up in the last 7 days:13#27,831by Init HTML1 month ago
Zero-DB, zero-external-JS honeypot anti-spam for WordPress comments, core forms, and popular form plugins. Invisible to humans, a void to bots.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Booker Privacy Spam Guard
#28,009by booker GmbH3 months ago
Lightweight, privacy-friendly spam protection built for Elementor forms – no Google, no US captcha services, no cookies.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Nullis Shield
Up in the last 7 days:519#29,122by 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.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

GB Anti-Spam for Contact Form 7
#30,136by gregbialowas4 months ago
Lightweight anti-spam protection for Contact Form 7 without CAPTCHA. More details: https://gregbialowas.com/anti-spam-cf7
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MioGuard for Contact Form 7
#30,813by seconet9 months ago
Spam and bot protection for Contact Form 7 forms with honeypot and rate limiting.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Blueforce Spam Protect
#31,320by blueforcetoday
Blocks form and comment spam without captcha. All checks run on your own server, your visitors' messages never go to an external service.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

AOS Comment Spam Cleanup
Down in the last 7 days:244#31,367by AOS Digital1 month ago
Clean up comment spam by URL pattern, schedule auto-cleanups, block bots with a honeypot, and auto-score comment quality — all in one panel.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Samurai Honeypot for Forms
#31,448by Team beta version3 months ago
Invisible 15-layer anti-spam for Contact Form 7 & WPForms. Score-based 3-Tier Triage silently blocks bots — no CAPTCHA, no user friction.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SpamPot
Up in the last 7 days:5,874#41,911by keith_wp10 years ago
Adds a honeypot form field on the registration and login pages to trap spammers.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Fstyle Honeypot Bot Blocker
#42,335by fstylegear095433 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.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 29/day

Tiny Comment Spam Blocker
Down in the last 7 days:2,010#43,016by Kasuga2 months ago
A simple and lightweight yet rock-solid plugin that blocks comment spam using multiple automatic detection methods.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Form Guardian for Contact Form 7
Up in the last 7 days:3,930#43,308by sandeepkamp4 months ago
Stop Contact Form 7 spam with honeypot protection, automatic IP blocking, duplicate submission prevention, disposable email filtering, rate limiting, …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
HonnyPotter
#43,310by Mrtn911 years ago
A honeypot for logging all failed login-attempts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

SpamScrubber
Down in the last 7 days:10,570#45,360by Richard Phillips1 year ago
A simple and robust anti-spam plugin that adds a submission delay, JavaScript token, and a honeypot field to your site's forms.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Bolcal Anti Spam
Up in the last 7 days:1,934#46,442by BOLCAL6 months ago
Free anti-spam protection for WooCommerce, WordPress registration forms, and Contact Form 7 forms.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Onsite Spam Guard
Down in the last 7 days:10,167#47,983by jeromewincek8 days ago
Spam protection for comments, Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, Jetpack and WP Job Manager forms — no external services, API keys or CAPTCHAs.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

AccessNow Spam Eater
Up in the last 7 days:13,287#48,718by accessnow14 days ago
Stops form spam without CAPTCHAs, using hidden fields, JavaScript and timing checks. Works with core forms, WooCommerce and popular form plugins.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

ShieldCraft
#48,919by Rajan Vijayan18 days ago
Stops spam in comments, registration, WooCommerce and contact forms. No CAPTCHA, no external services. Formerly WP Spam Protecter. Free.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

MAD CAT Design® Forms Protection
Up in the last 7 days:16,059#51,054by MAD CAT Design®2 months ago
Standalone spam protection for Contact Form 7 with local checks, honeypots, runtime signals and logs. No external captcha.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

eSherpa Login Guard
Up in the last 7 days:15,686#51,921by Ralf Naumann8 months ago
Intelligent login protection with honeypot detection, WordPress hardening, and a clear security admin overview.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
OrderSieve
Down in the last 7 days:2,481#55,755by Jahirul Islam9 days ago
Block fake and automated WooCommerce orders at checkout with a hidden honeypot field, a time trap and disposable email checks.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
tlloancy Behavioral Ultimate Finisher
#59,320by Thomas Lloancy1 day ago
Invisible behavioral spam filter for comments and forms. No CAPTCHA, no cookies, no external service. Pairs well with your anti-spam plugin.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 28/day