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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
2,146
Version
1.0.5
Requires WP
4.0
Requires PHP
Tested Up To
6.9.0
Added
2016-04-01
Last Updated
2025-12-02 5:09pm GMT

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