Description

Maspik is an anti-spam plugin that blocks spam submissions through your Elementor, CF7, and WordPress contact forms, comments, and registration pages. With Maspik, you can blacklist specific words, IPs, countries, and languages to prevent spam emails from being delivered to your inbox.

If you’re receiving spam emails, take a look at the common words or phrases they contain, such as “Eric Jones,” “SEO Ranking,” “Automatically submit your website,” or “Get free.” Maspik can block these and other spam words that ReCaptcha may miss.

Features:

Supports Elementor forms and CF7 (with more supported forms available in the Pro version)
Blocks spam submissions in WordPress comments and registration forms
Allows you to blacklist words in a text field, email field (regex accepted), or textarea field
Enables you to blacklist specific IPs or countries, or only allow submissions from a specific country
Blocks text fields with more than X characters, or the textarea field if it contains more than X links
Blocks or allows the email field if it contains (or doesn’t contain) one character from the main site language
Enables you to add custom phone validation with your regex format
Includes a spam log that you can clear at any time
Blocks Elementor forms devoid of source URLs
Connects to Proxycheck.io API and AbuseIPDB.com API

If a bot or spammer fills out your form with any of the above, the form will not be sent, and they will receive a validation error.

Pro Version Features:

Connects your site to a private spam API
Connects your site to a public spam API
Supports Gravityforms, Wpforms, Woocommerce registration, and Woocommerce reviews

API Site: WpMaspik.com

Note: Be careful when selecting words to blacklist as each website has different needs. For example, if you’re a digital marketing agency and blacklist the word “SEO,” you may lose some valid leads.

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Screenshots

Setting page
Error after submitting form with spam words

Installation

Search for “Maspik – Spam Blacklist” in the WordPress Plugin repository through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Install and activate the plugin.
In the WordPress dashboard menu, find the Maspik – Spam Blacklist setting page.
Add spam words as needed.

FAQ

Does the plugin work with other contact form plugins besides Elementor and CF7?: Maspik supports Elementor and Contact Form 7, and it supports Gravityforms and Wpforms in the Pro version. We plan on supporting more forms in the future.
Where do I set this up?: In the WordPress dashboard menu, look for the ‘Anti spam” item and click on it.
Will MASPIK slow down my site?: No.
I developed this plugin using high-quality server-side code and avoided using CSS/JS to ensure optimal website performance as CSS/JS running in the front-end can slow down websites.
How can I report security bugs?: You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team help validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. Report a security vulnerability.

Reviews

euroman12 October 25, 2023

Brilliant plugin blocks spam for me enough said.

natalieadum October 18, 2023

This plugin saved me so much time. Our Elementor contact form was getting spammed and I was able to target the spammer by their IP, Location, and many other options that this plugin allows. Even after blocking the entire country that was spamming our form, the form still works perfectly for non-spam! 10/10 would recommend it!

Hamtaro July 7, 2023

Thank you so much for this plugin ! Its better than anything else. Blocked all the spam coming to my forms without complexity and useless bloat.

wolfweb95 July 3, 2023

Thanks for this nice plugin! Also the support is incredible. Bought the pro version, works fine 🙂

Feather July 28, 2023

This is really a huge solution, Thanks so much I would suggest to add a feature, to be able to export the spam log to excel sheet.

bclair85 May 10, 2023

I hope they keep this plugin growing. It is defiantly worth the small payment, and it works very well. I have been using it for several months and I love it and my clients love having less spam.

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Contributors & Developers

“Maspik – Spam Blacklist” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

yonifre

“Maspik – Spam Blacklist” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Maspik – Spam Blacklist” into your language.

Interested in development?

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Changelog

0.10.3 – 27/11/2023

Performance – Improve code performance
Bug fix – Fix spam check in some situation

0.10.2 – 26/11/2023

Performance – Improve code performance
Bug fix – Fix Textarea spam check, Thanks to @tauri77

0.10.1 – 23/11/2023

Performance – Improve code performance
Tweek – Introduce Maspik human verification – New Bot capture – BETA

0.10.0 – 23/11/2023

Performance – Improve code performance
Bug fix – fix vulnerability problem
Tweek – Adding languages to the block/allow list

0.9.3 – 22/11/2023

Bug fix – fix vulnerability problem, thanks to patchstack.com

0.9.2 – 17/11/2023

Improvement – Support multisite wordpress setup
Performance – Improve code performance.

0.9.1 – 16/10/2023

Bug fix – Tel field incorrectly checked for spam

0.9.0 – 14/10/2023

New Feature – Wildcard pattern accepted in text-field/email-field/ Tel-field!
Improvement – Improve and add more in the API options (https://wpmaspik.com/).
Performance – Improve code performance.

0.8.3 – 04/09/2023

New Feature – Automatically adding spam phrases from the MASPIK API (PRO)(BETA)
Bug fix – Ip detect wrong in some servers
Improvement – Improve and add more in the API options (https://wpmaspik.com/).

0.8.2 – 29/07/2023

Improvement – Add Russian translation thanks to Andrey

0.8.1 – 10/07/2023

Bug fix – Fix ip detect wrong in some cases

0.8 – 12/05/2023

New Feature – Add option to Completely Disable Comments in WordPress.
Performance – Improve code performance.
Improvement – Improve and add more in the API options (https://wpmaspik.com/).

0.7.11 – 11/05/2023

Performance – Improve code performance
Improvement – Improve API options

0.7.10 – 07/04/2023

Adaptation to WP version 6.2

0.7.9 – 25/02/2023

Bug fix (Please update ASAP!)

0.7.8 – 07/10/2022

Adaptation to WP version 6.1

0.7.7 – 07/10/2022

Bug fix – Fix Presserror problem

0.7.6 – 29/09/2022

Bug fix – Fix Name field check is is Array in Wpforms & GravityForms

0.7.5 – 12/08/2022

Bug fix – Fix Block Domain Email (Ex: xyz.com) in some servers

0.7.4 – 01/08/2022

New Feature – Connection to Proxycheck.io API (Thanks to josephcy95).
New Feature – Connection to AbuseIPDB.com API (Thanks to josephcy95).
Improvement – Add possibility to filter entire CIDR range such as 134.209.0.0/16 in IP blocklist field. (Thanks to josephcy95).
Improvement – Improve layout of Spam log.

0.7.3 – 29/07/2022

Bug fix – Prevents letters from becoming lowercase in regex format on tel field.
New Offer – Want to get a free Pro license? Write an article about Maspik on your relevant blog, and get a link from the plugin page and a professional license for free. Email me for more details (Yonifre AT gmail).

0.7.2 – 19/07/2022

Bug fix – Error message not displaying in some servers
Bug fix – Spam log not showing in some servers
Improvement – Add the ability to disable spam log in the Option page

0.7.1 – 12/07/2022

Improvement – Add Option page

0.7.0 – 12/07/2022

Improvement – Add support in WordPress comments
Improvement – Add support in WordPress registration
Improvement – Add support in Woocommerce review (pro)
Improvement – Add support in Woocommerce registration (pro)

0.6.6 – 04/07/2022

Performance – Improving code performance, Error log loud only when needed (thanks to Marius)

0.6.5 – 03/06/2022

Bug fix – fix Block empty source URL option

0.6.4 – 03/06/2022

Bug fix – Disable Spampixel

0.6.3 – 31/05/2022

Bug fix – Fix lower/uppercase letter in Country field
New Url to API site

0.6.1 – 30/05/2022

Improvement – Add Spam log counter to Spam log menu title
Bug fix – Allow only specific country option in CF7

0.6.0 – 27/05/2022

Improvement – Smart bot capture (spampixel)
Improvement – Add Gravityforms support – pro feature
Improvement – Add Wpforms support – pro feature

0.5.8 – 27/04/2022

Tweek – Add Editor access to Spam-log

0.5.7 – 20/04/2022

Tweek – Improve Text field spam lockup
Bug fix – Fix Allow only specific country option

0.5.6 – 09/04/2022

Improvement – Add option to put an end of Email in email field, like: @test.com

0.5.5 – 06/04/2022

Thanks to @Fiona_Fars, Improve explanation content in the setting pages.

0.5.4 – 24/01/2022

Improvement – Load API php file only if mark it or already use it
Improvement – Ready for WordPress 5.9

0.5.3 – 25/11/2021

Improvement – Limit spam log to max 100 entrees (To prevent DB overload)

0.5.2

Add a minimum requires version for php (7)

0.5.1

Bug fix – Language api

0.5

Performance – Improving code performance
Tweek added – Change country drop down list
Tweek added – Show your API list in the main setting page

0.4.3

Add translation – Add Hebrew translation

0.4.2

Bug fix – fix Block empty source URL option

0.4.1

Bug fix – fix PHP error in 0.4.0v

0.4.0

upgrade_notice: ‘You may need to activate the plugin again after the update, as the plugin name changed’
* Tweek added – Connect your site to Spam API
* Tweek added – Variety of new options
* Performance – Improving code performance

0.3.0

upgrade_notice: ‘You may need to activate the plugin again after the update, as the plugin name changed’
* Tweek added – Allow only specific country
* Tweek added – Block text-field with more than X characters
* Tweek added – Ability to block textarea-field with any Russian character
* Tweek added – Email Blacklist field support Regex
* Performance – Improving code performance

0.2.2

upgrade_notice: ‘You may need to activate the plugin again after the update, as the plugin name changed’
* Bug fix – Fix phone filed & affect Language check only on textarea.

0.2.1

Bug fix – Fix phone filed in CF7 always blocked.

0.2.0

Tweek added – Spam log
Bug fix – Not blocking Email field.

0.1.0

*Tweek added – Add plugin support to- Contact form 7
*Tweek added – Custom phone validation (Add your format)

0.0.5

*Bug fix – Fix php error.

0.0.4

*Bug fix – Fix bug in textarea field.

0.0.3

*Tweek added – Add Spam block counter

0.0.2

*Tweek added – Block sending if not contains one character from main site language (Hebrew only for now)

0.0.1

First release