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Cookies for Comments

By Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

Support & Help Desk / FAQ Management

Cookies for Comments Review - In-Depth Analysis

This plugin sets a cookie on a random URL to check for spam comments. If the cookie is missing, the comment is flagged as spam.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.74/10

User Rating

4.9/5 (based on 18+ reviews)

Active Installations

20,000+

Update Frequency

Below Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

1 / 10 (Very Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

This plugin adds a stylesheet or image to your blog's html source code. When a browser loads that stylesheet or image, a cookie is dropped. If that user then leaves a comment, the cookie is checked. If it doesn't exist, the comment is marked as spam.

The plugin can also check how long it took a user to enter a comment. If it's too fast, it's probably a spam bot. How fast can a legitimate user enter their name, email, web address, and enter a well thought out comment?

For the adventurous, add these lines to your .htaccess and it will block spam attempts before they ever get to WordPress. Replace the Xs with the cookie that was set in your browser after viewing your blog. You can also find the cookie value by examining the page source code and looking for 'css.php?k=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'. Make sure the lines go above the standard WordPress rules.

If you use WordPress MU, replace wp-comments-post.php above with wp-signup.php to block spam signups.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Cookies for Comments plugin.

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comments

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cookies

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spam

FAQ

If you use wp-minify make sure you add the Cookies for Comments CSS file to the list of CSS files that shouldn’t be minified.

Contributors and developers

“Cookies for Comments” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)

Free Version

WPS

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6.74

Average

Ratings

4.9 out of 5 | 18

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Version

0.5.5

Last updated

6 years ago

Active installations

20,000+

WordPress version

5.2.24 or higher

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PHP version

or higher

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Languages

0

Category

Support & Help Desk

FAQ Management

Tags

Comments,Cookies,Spam

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