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Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk

Description

CleanTalk Anti-Spam is a top-rated anti-spam protection plugin for WordPress. It effectively stops spam comments, registrations, contact emails, and more without using CAPTCHA, which can frustrate users. This plugin works in the background, ensuring a seamless experience for visitors while protecting your site from unwanted spam.

The plugin offers a range of features including real-time email validation, blocking disposable emails, and a Spam FireWall that prevents spam bots from accessing your site. It is compatible with various forms and plugins such as WooCommerce, Contact Form 7, and Gravity Forms, providing comprehensive protection across your site.

With CleanTalk, you can improve your site's performance and SEO by reducing spam-related issues. The plugin is designed to be user-friendly and efficient, ensuring that your website remains clean and spam-free.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk plugin.

Antispam

Contact Form

Spam

Screenshots

FAQ

Spammers want to get backlinks from your site to improve their site’s PageRank or redirect your visitors to malicious sites.This level of spam can damage your reputation with readers and commentators if you fail to tackle it. It is not uncommon for some WordPress websites to receive hundreds or even thousands of comments every week. However, by using a CleanTalk plugin, spam can be easily handled by your WordPress website.

The plugin has several options to detect spam bots and humans. If you just post spammy text like this:

"I want to sell something", "Buy something here.." and etc

the comments will be passed, because the plugin detects sender as a human. So, use special email [email protected] to test the anti-spam functionality or wait a few days to see how the plugin works.

This script is used for AJAX JavaScript checking. Different themes use different mechanisms of loading, so we use two methods for loading our script. If you absolutely know what you are doing, you can switch one of the methods off by defining constants in your wp-config.php file:

define('CLEANTALK_AJAX_USE_BUFFER', false); //false - don't use output buffering to include AJAX script, true - use it

define('CLEANTALK_AJAX_USE_FOOTER_HEADER', false); //false - don't use wp_footer() and wp_header() for including AJAX script, true - use it

Use special IP 10.10.10.10 in URL to test Spam FireWall. For example,

https://cleantalk.org/blog/?sfw_test_ip=10.10.10.10

Attention! The incognito mode should be enabled in your browser when you do a test. To enable incognito mode press Ctrl+Shift+N for Chrome, Opera и Safari browsers; press Ctrl+Shift+P for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. A full guide to enable Incognito mode is here: https://www.wikihow.com/Activate-Incognito-Mode

To set up global CleanTalk access key for all websites in WPMU, define constant in your wp-config.php file before defining database constants:

define('CLEANTALK_ACCESS_KEY', 'place your key here');

Now, all subsites will have this access key.

CleanTalk works with Varnish, it protects WordPress against spam, but by default the plugin generates a few cookies for the protection from spam bots and it also disables Varnish cache on pages where CleanTalk’s cookies have been stored. To get rid of the issue with cache turn off the option ‘Set cookies’ in the plugin settings.

WordPress console -> Settings -> CleanTalk -> Advanced settings

Now the plugin will protect WordPress comments, registrations and most of popular contact forms, but will not protect some of rarely used contact forms.