Stop-Spam plugin blocks automatic spam in comments section. No captcha.<\/p>\n\n
Plugin is easy to use: just install it and it just works.<\/p>\n\n
Blocked comments can be stored in the Spam area if needed. This can be enabled\/disabled via Settings page. This is useful for testing and debug purpose. Blocked spam comments can be easily converted to regular comments if needed.<\/p>\n\n
Stop-Spam plugin is GDPR compliant and does not store any other user data except of the behavior mentioned above.<\/p>\n\n
Plugin blocks spam only in comments section<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n After installing the Stop-Spam plugin try to submit a comment on your site being logged out<\/strong>.\nIf you get an error - you may check the solution in the Support section<\/a> or submit a new topic with detailed description of your problem.<\/p>\n\n\n You can visit Stop-Spam settings page and enable saving blocked comments as spam in the spam section.\nTo enabled that you need to go to: WordPress admin dashboard => Settings section => Stop-Spam\nSaving blocked comments into spam section is disabled by default.\nSaving spam comments can help you to keep all the comments saved and review them in future if needed. You can easily mark comment as \"not spam\" if some of the comments were blocked by mistake.<\/p><\/dd>\n Stop-spam plugin blocks 100% of automatic spam messages (sent by spam-bots via post requests).\nPlugin does not block manual spam (submitted by spammers manually via browser).<\/p><\/dd>\n The blocking algorithm is based on 2 methods: 'invisible js-captcha' and 'invisible input trap' (aka honeypot technique).<\/p><\/dd>\n The 'invisible js-captcha' method is based on fact that bots does not have javascript on their user-agents.\nExtra hidden field is added to comments form.\nIt is the question about the current year.\nIf the user visits site, than this field is answered automatically with javascript, is hidden by javascript and css and invisible for the user.\nIf the spammer will fill year-field incorrectly - the comment will be blocked because it is spam.<\/p><\/dd>\n The 'invisible input trap' method is based on fact that almost all the bots will fill inputs with name 'email' or 'url'.\nExtra hidden field is added to comments form.\nThis field is hidden for the user and user will not fill it.\nBut this field is visible for the spammer.\nIf the spammer will fill this trap-field with anything - the comment will be blocked because it is spam.<\/p><\/dd>\n You can find the info block with total spam blocked counter in the admin comments section.\nYou can hide or show this info block in the \"Screen Options\" section.\nThe visibility option for this info block is saved per user.<\/p><\/dd>\n Plugin blocks spam only in comments form section and does not block spam from any other forms on site.\nIf you installed and activated the plugin and you still receiving spam - probably this could be because of some other forms on your site (for example feedback form).<\/p><\/dd>\n Users rarely use trackbacks because it is manual and requires extra input. Spammers uses trackbacks because it is easy to cheat here.\nUsers use pingbacks very often because they work automatically. Spammers does not use pingbacks because backlinks are checked.\nSo trackbacks are blocked but pingbacks are enabled. \nYou may read more about the difference between trackbacks and pingbacks<\/a><\/p><\/dd>\n All modern browsers and IE8+ are supported.<\/p><\/dd>\n Stop-spam plugin works with disabled JavaScript. JavaScript is disabled on less than 1% of devices.\nUsers with disabled JavaScript should manually fill catcha-like input before submitting the comment.<\/p><\/dd>\n If site has caching plugin enabled and cache is not cleared or if theme does not use 'comment_form' action\nand there is no plugin inputs in comments form - plugin tries to add hidden fields automatically using JavaScript.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n
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