Recently my Site & the forum got the real taste of bots. getting spam registrations left & right, spam comments every 3 minutes. Tried recaptcha, black holes, manual user moderation and it was too much to take on. Then I came across this. installed and the only thing i was getting was the allow list requests filled by bots. I disabled even that and since last night things have gone to Zero.

Bots are even smarter now to solve invisible recaptcha & recaptcha! so this is the only way to fight them & it has taken a huge burden from my shoulders. Thanks. Donations sent! Keep this plugin updated.

I had high hopes after reading the reviews, but this plugin is absolutely useless for stopping spam registrations via Buddypress. The settings for blocking countries and TLDs are completely ignored.

I don’t know what I would’ve done without Stop Spammers. And, for me, the real deal breaker is that it gets every single IP. No one can hide.

Great stuff!

E’ il miglior plugin antispam che io abbia provato. Da quando ce l’ho, i bot sono diventati 0. Ed è gratis!
Ci vuole un po’ di attenzione iniziale per configurarlo bene, e risulta un po’ aggressivo; ma una volta capito come impostarlo in modo ottimale per il proprio sito, diventa indispensabile.
Grazie! Thanks!

I had a site that had 500+ attempts in the past 2 weeks to register. None went through and accessed the membership-only site (we have a moderation plugin to handle them and don’t use the standard WP registration) — but they were getting annoying to sort through to find legit registration requests.

Finally found this plugin and set it up to be rather aggressive in limiting bot traffic. Set up the additional “Stop Forum Spam” and “Project Honeypot” services and tied them to this plugin (via the convenient web services page) and I had the first night of 0 bot registration attempts this site has seen in months. None of my other sites get hit by bots like this one (so, I think a member of the site somehow attracted some bots with a compromised account or system), and it had been driving me (and the owners of the site) nuts. I’d installed 3-4 other free versions of plugins meant to block bots and none of them made a dent in the registration attempts. This one has so far blocked them all. It took a little time to set it up and go through all of the options (and set up the outside resources for it) — but so worth it. And wonderful to see all the options it has for blocking bots in multiple ways, and tying to multiple outside resources that makes it even more powerful than its default settings and options.

I’ve never contributed to a plugin before — I just sent in a token amount to say thanks to Bryan for keeping this plugin up and running.

It does not read the HTML tags currently for the reject message, such as line breaks.
Solution is that I have to add the html_entity_decode manually into the plugin file.
I hope the upcoming release could make the small fix.

Thanks.