Best spam plugins for WordPress
675 plugins tagged “spam” on WordPress.org, in its popular order and updated daily. Research this niche or see all plugins.
HumansNotBots
Up in the last 7 days:18#12,507by zingming13 years ago
"email AT address DOT com" (without quotes) is converted to a clickable version of email@address.com if JavaScript is enabled.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Spam Master
Down in the last 7 days:170#12,520by 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
- 23/day

CleanTalk bbPress spam scanner
Up in the last 7 days:32#12,578by CleanTalk Inc1 month ago
Check existing bbPress topics for spam and move to trash all found spam.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 12/day

bbPress forum utility pack
Up in the last 7 days:19#12,856by enomoto celtislab2 years ago
This is a utility plugin that nifty to support the management of bbpress. However, some features are the Japanese version only.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

LH Zero Spam
Down in the last 7 days:33#12,992by shawfactor4 years ago
Zero Spam makes blocking spam comments and registrations easy.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day
WP Simple SpamCheck
#13,037by sdesalas14 years ago
This plugin allows WordPress to block over 95% of spam comments using a time-based hash.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Spam Captcha
Up in the last 7 days:287#13,110by KaizenCoders1 year ago
This plugins avoids spam actions on your website (comments and contact form if you use Contact Form 7).
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Custom Captcha Field for Fluent Forms
Up in the last 7 days:30#13,127by Lukman Hussain Nakib4 months ago
Lightweight, self-hosted captcha field for Fluent Forms — image, math and question/answer challenges. No external services, no tracking.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 7/day
Post type archive in menu
Down in the last 7 days:13#13,137by Luka Peharda13 years ago
Simple and easy way of adding post type archive links to your menu. Links will be highlighted when you navigate to custom archive or single item page.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Privacy CAPTCHA for Cap
Up in the last 7 days:756#13,146by zirkel.design13 days ago
Privacy-friendly spam protection for comments, login, registration, WooCommerce, and Gravity Forms, powered by your own Cap server.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 15/day

Classic Honeypot for CF7
Up in the last 7 days:2,742#13,158by Nilo Velez11 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
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 34/day
BuddyPress Captcha
Up in the last 7 days:58#13,424by 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
Safe Report Comments
Up in the last 7 days:41#13,572by Automattic2 months ago
This plugin gives your visitors the possibility to report a comment as inappropriate. After a set threshold is reached the comment is put into moderat …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
DM Confirm Email
Down in the last 7 days:1#13,600by Michael12 years ago
Protect your wordpress site with spam registration. DM Confirm Email requires new users to confirm their email addresses.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.1(7)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Mail And Content Protect
Up in the last 7 days:25#13,651by bPlugins2 months ago
Protect emails, phone numbers, URLs, and content from spam and unauthorized access with a customizable Gutenberg block.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
Comments Capcha Box
Down in the last 7 days:20#13,867by digitalzoomstudio15 years ago
This plugin creates a capcha box before your submit button in the comments section to prevent all that unwanted spam.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-Bigfoot
Down in the last 7 days:86#14,146by Adam Martinez3 years ago
Create simple, elegant footnotes on your site. Use the [footnote] shortcode and the plugin takes care of the rest.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
TanTanNoodles Simple Spam Filter
Down in the last 7 days:18#14,153by joetan18 years ago
A plugin that does a simple sanity check to stop really obvious comment spam before it is processed.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hiddy captcha 1.5.1
Up in the last 7 days:17#14,287by k7615 years ago
This plugin provides you an easy captcha without javascript, without images, without math. Only a few of CSS and a few of server side.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Astounding Spam Prevention
Down in the last 7 days:26#14,295by 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
- 0/day
Comment Timeout
Up in the last 7 days:2#14,574by jammycakes13 years ago
Closes comments on blog entries after a user-configurable period of time, with an option to make allowances for active discussions.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

NutsForPress SMTP Mail
Up in the last 7 days:20#14,626by Christian Gatti10 months ago
NutsForPress SMTP Mail is a simple and lightweight plugin that prevents emails sent by your website to be marked as spam from the recipient servers.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Spam Protection Without Captcha
Up in the last 7 days:75#14,682by Shamim Hasan6 years ago
Protect Login, Register, Lost & Reset Password, Comment, woocommerce, CF7, bbpress, BuddyPress forms.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Advanced Email Domain Restriction
Up in the last 7 days:47#14,839by Md Siddiqur Rahman2 months ago
Restrict WordPress user registration to allowed email domains, block spam signups, and secure WooCommerce, LearnDash, and form registrations.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Smart Captcha Yandex
Down in the last 7 days:114#14,884by Temyk4 years ago
Интеграция Yandex Smart Captcha для вашего WordPress сайта.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 2.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Spam Comment Remover
Down in the last 7 days:41#14,897by 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
RegiVigil
Up in the last 7 days:215#15,194by David Siemers2 months ago
Local protection against spam and fake WordPress and WooCommerce accounts with user scanning, whitelists, logs and scheduled reports.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Email Guard
Up in the last 7 days:40#15,290by MoeHassan17 years ago
WP Email Guard protects your email addresses included on any post or page from being crawled by spammers.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Registration Email Blocker
Up in the last 7 days:180#15,448by Patsikov Artem2 months ago
Control which email domains may be used to register on your site and to change an existing account's email address.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
TrafficGuard PPC Fraud Prevention
Up in the last 7 days:169#15,563by Trafficguard8 months ago
Protect your Google Ads budget with TrafficGuard's PPC protection.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day

Add Plain-Text Email
#16,006by Danny van Kooten2 months ago
Adds a text/plain email to text/html emails to decrease the chance of emails being tagged as spam.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
GateCHA CAPTCHA
Up in the last 7 days:275#16,230by gatecha16 days ago
Self-hosted ALTCHA proof-of-work CAPTCHA via GateCHA. Protects WordPress forms without cookies, fingerprinting, or third-party services.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/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
Delete All Pending Comments
Up in the last 7 days:169#16,365by Gravuj Miklos Henrich14 years ago
Delete all pending comments from your database easily.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Contact Form 7 Blacklist
Up in the last 7 days:58#16,474by Webmonkey Solutions Kft8 years ago
Contact Form 7 Blacklist
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Byteplant Email Validator
Up in the last 7 days:509#16,475by 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

PRyC WP
Down in the last 7 days:4#16,524by Patryk5 months ago
Block SPAM without any type of CAPTCHA - plugin add "HoneyTrap" (and a few other tricks) for comment form to block SPAMbots.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Spam IP Blocker
Up in the last 7 days:123#16,544by Aleksei Znaev15 years ago
Free spam IP blocker according to public DNSBL bases.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Some Chinese Please!
Down in the last 7 days:177#16,568by bingu16 years ago
用中文写作的blog必备的防御spam插件
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Spam Defender
Up in the last 7 days:161#16,718by Raisul Islam Shagor5 months ago
Add captcha to WooCommerce product reviews. Prevent spam reviews and ensure only real customers can submit reviews.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
DBD Mailto Encoder
Up in the last 7 days:96#16,765by dubhunter16 years ago
Spam is one of the most frustrating things about the internet.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-AntiSpambot
Down in the last 7 days:65#16,828by Dustin Filippini13 years ago
Adds a shortcode which converts email addresses to HTML entities to block spambots.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.8(4)
- Downloads
- 3/day

Blacklist Unwanted Email
Up in the last 7 days:114#16,844by abahalkar7 years ago
This is a free add-on plugin for Formidable Forms , which validates the email field and restrict unwanted email submission as well as allowed only bus …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
AP HoneyPot WordPress Plugin
Up in the last 7 days:138#16,853by 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

KP Fastest Contact Form 7 Recaptcha V3
Up in the last 7 days:45#16,893by Kreativo Pro6 years ago
Speeds up websites that use Contact Form 7 Recaptcha V3. Built by Kreativo Pro WordPress Speed Specialists.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Fake User Detector
Up in the last 7 days:9#17,335by PluginRx2 months ago
Detect and flag suspicious existing user accounts using simple checks to help clean up fake or low-quality registrations.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Disable All Comments
#17,445by seosbg2 days ago
The complete toolkit to disable, hide or clean up WordPress comments – everywhere with one click, or only where you want.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
wL Email Encrypter
Up in the last 7 days:38#17,510by Art415 years ago
This plugin encrypted e-mail addresses to protect and hide them from bots and harvesters.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Stop Search Spam
Up in the last 7 days:357#17,647by 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
myQaptcha
Up in the last 7 days:42#17,748by clove12 years ago
给文章评论添加滑动解锁,防止机器人和垃圾评论.已支持手机和平板. 微信公众号 三十岁
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day