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Simplest comment spam catcher

by Mark Howells-Mead

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Adds a hidden field to comment forms, which will subsequently be auto-filled by spam-submitting robots. If the form
submission contains a value, the comment will not be saved, because only robots will see the field and fill it out.

Simple!

Any form which is processed using the hook comment_form_after_fields (building the form HTML) and preprocess_comment
(for processing the form submission) will be extended with this functionality.

This plugin doesn’t block or catch any form submissions which have been filled manually in a browser, so you may still
receive the occasional advertising or sales message as a post or page comment. However, blocking automatically-generated
spam messages will reduce the number of unwanted messages greatly.

Plugin Details

Active Installs
10
Total Downloads
2,223
Version
1.0.5
Requires WP
4.0
Requires PHP
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Tested Up To
6.9.0
Added
2016-04-01
Last Updated
2025-12-02 5:09pm GMT

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