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Squelch Unspam

Unspam makes it harder for spammers to automatedly send spam to your blog by changing the names of the fields in the comment forms.

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Tested up to WordPress 6.5
Current version1.5.1
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.5
Minimum stackWP 4.4 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update10 Apr 20242y ago
Active installations50Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating3.0 / 5 from 1 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Squelch Unspam version 1.5.1 as active, updated 2y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.5.

Overview

About this plugin

Unspam by Squelch Design is the simplest WordPress anti-spam plugin you can find for reducing your comment spam problem. Once installed there’s nothing

to configure, and nothing changes to your visitors: No captcha or silly games. Once installed

the plugin will simply randomize the names of the fields in the comments form on your blog and reject comments that are sent to the

standard WordPress field names, or where bots have blindly submitted data to the honeypot fields.

What this means for spammers is that they have to do quite a lot more work to send spam to your website. It may also make sending

spam to your website unreliable as changes to your theme may upset their spam submission tools. Or they may have to resort to using

humans to send spam to your website (not much I can do about that I’m afraid) which will cost them more money.

Currently implemented:

  • Names of fields are randomized every night at 12:00,
  • Submissions to the standard WordPress field names are automatically deleted,
  • Honeypot fields added to comments form,
  • WooCommerce support.

Additional (planned) features:

  • Contact Form 7 integration
  • Statistical collection,
  • Automated blocking of persistent IPs,
  • Opt-in centralized collection of comment spam and statistics for additional research.
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • comment spam filter
  • spam filter
  • comments
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.5

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.5.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.5
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.4 · PHP not listed
Update activity10 Apr 20242y ago

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