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Stop Search Spam

The plugin blocks internal site search spam (what lowers your site's ranking in the Google).

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version1.0.1
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 4.3 · PHP 5.6
Directory statusactive
Last directory update30 Aug 20262mo ago
Active installations80Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 2 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Stop Search Spam version 1.0.1 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Stop Search Spam

Did you know that spammers can exploit your WordPress internal site search to advertise their illicit goods and services?

com/search/search_term/ ). Malicious bots and spammers abuse this by injecting long promotional texts, links, and unwanted keywords right into your search URLs. com.

Because WordPress generates a search results page containing these terms, these dynamically generated pages can get crawled and indexed by Google or built into malicious backlink profiles. This creates unauthorized “adverts” on your domain, which leads to severe SEO penalties, keyword dilution, and a damaged site reputation.

Stop Search Spam is a powerful, lightweight security plugin designed to block internal WordPress site search spam and protect your Google SEO rankings.

Key Features & SEO Protection:

* Block Search Spam: Automatically prevents malicious search queries and injected spam from being processed.

* Protect SEO & Rankings: Stops your search result pages from being hijacked for spam indexing, keeping your organic search rankings safe.

* Limit Query Length: Set a strict maximum character limit for search strings to instantly block long spam phrases and URLs.

* Filter Foreign Alphabets: Easily disallow specific character sets, including Chinese and Cyrillic (Russian) characters, often used in automated search spam.

* Disable Emojis in Search: Prevent spammers from circumventing filters using emojis and special symbols.

Keep your website’s search clean, fast, and secure!

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

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

  • anti spam
  • search plugin
  • search spam
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 4.3 · PHP 5.6
Update activity30 Aug 20262mo ago

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