FREEBIES #8: 5 Best Free WordPress Antispam Plugins

No one like spam appearing in the website. So how to prevent all spam? Luckily we have many plugins to protect your site. Let’s check top 5 best free WordPress Antispam plugins now.

This entry is the part 7 of 7 in the FREEBIE SERIES OF MUST-HAVE PLUGINS FOR A WORDPRESS WEBSITE. Click on the links below to quickly jump to the entry you want to read:

1. Security
2. Running Site Backups
3. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
4. Social Sharing
5. Site Caching (WordPress performance optimization)
6. Contact Forms
7. Handling Spam Comments

1. Akismet Anti-Spam

Akismet  is one of the most popular and most used WordPress Antispam plugins with 5+ million active installations on wordpress.org. This plugin checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. Also, you can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

2. Stop Spammers

Stop Spammers is an aggressive website defence against comment spam and login attempts. It is capable of performing more than 20 different checks for spam and malicious events and can block spam from over 100 different countries.

It’s easy and works out of the box for beginners, and has advanced features and an API for developers.

3. WordPress Zero Spam

The WordPress Zero Spam is another popular plugin. It blocks registration spam and spam in comments automatically without any additional config or setup. Just install, activate, and enjoy a spam-free site.

4. Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall, Cleaner by CleanTalk

This is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to protect your site with No CAPTCHA, no questions, no animal counting, no puzzles, no math and no spam bots.

It supports many plugins including Contact Form 7, Ninja Forms, Gravity Forms, MailChimp, Formidable forms, WooCommerce, JetPack comments and contact form, BuddyPress, bbPress, Fast Secure Contact form, S2Member, MailPoet, any WordPress registrations & contact forms and themes. Just setup and forget the spam!

5. Antispam Bee

With Antispam Bee, there is no need for us to worry about the comment spam on your WordPress blog or website.

Antispam Bee blocks spam comments and trackbacks effectively and without captchas. It is free of charge, ad-free and compliant with European data privacy standards.

CONCLUSION

In the list above, you can easily try to use Akismet Anti-Spam for your WordPress website. This is one of the most popular and favorite choice for user now.

Thank you for reading!