by pluginkollektiv
4.8 (224 reviews)
Antispam Bee
Sophisticated antispam plugin for effective daily comment and trackback spam-fighting. Built with data protection and privacy in mind.
Tested up to WP 6.8.3 (Current: 6.9)
v2.11.8
Current Version v2.11.8
Updated 5 months ago
Last Update on 22 Jul, 2025
Synced 16 hours ago
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Rank
#95
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Active Installs
700K+
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KW Avg Position
87.3
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Downloads
10.9M
+365 today
Support Resolved
50%
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Rating
96%
Review 4.8 out of 5
4.8
(224 reviews)
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Tracked Keywords
Showing 3 of 3| Keyword | Position | Change | Type | Updated |
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| antispam | 32 | — | Tag | 16 hours ago |
| anti-spam | 107 | — | Tag | 16 hours ago |
| spam filter | 123 | — | Tag | 16 hours ago |
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- Version
- 2.11.8
- Last Updated
- Jul 22, 2025
- Requires WP
- 4.6+
- Tested Up To
- 6.8.3
- PHP Version
- 5.2 or higher
- Author
- pluginkollektiv
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- Reviews
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Antispam Bee
Antispam Bee works best with default WordPress comments. It does not help to protect form plugins and does not prevent spam registrations. Hopefully we can provide better hooks for third party plugins to use Antispam Bee to fill this gap in the forthcoming new major version.
Antispam Bee works best with default WordPress comments. It is not compatible with Jetpack, wpDiscuz or Disqus Comments as those plugins load a new comment form within an iframe. Thus Antispam Bee can not access the comment form directly.
Whether Antispam Bee works with a comment form submitted via AJAX depends on how the AJAX request is made. If the request goes to the file that usually also receives the comments, Antispam Bee could work with it out of the box (the WP Ajaxify Comments plugin does this, for example). If the comments are sent to the admin-ajax.php, the antispam_bee_disallow_ajax_calls filter must be used to run ASB for requests to that file as well. If the script does not send all form data to the file, but only some selected ones, further customization is probably necessary, as exemplified in this post by Torsten Landsiedel (in German).
Antispam Bee is developed in Europe. You might have heard we can be a bit nitpicky over here when it comes to privacy. The plugin does not save private user data and is 100% compliant with GDPR.
No, the plugin works as is. You may want to configure your favorite settings, though.
Generally yes. However, commissioning the Antispam Bee plugin for canceled or shortened IP addresses in comment metadata is not recommended. Because the name and the e-mail address of the comments are not unique, an IP address is the only reliable measure. The more complete the stored IP addresses, the more reliable the assignment or detection of spam.
If the antispam plugin has passed some spam comments, these comments can be reported for analysis. A Google table was created for this purpose.
If WordPress is operated with Apache + Varnish, the actual IP address of the visitors does not appear in WordPress. Accordingly the Antispam-Plugin lacks the base for the correct functionality. An adaptation in the Varnish configuration file /etc/varnish/default.vcl provides a remedy and forwards the original (not from Apache) IP address in the HTTP header X-Forwarded-For: if (req.restarts == 0) { set req.http.X-Forwarded-For = client.ip; }
No, Antispam Bee is free forever, for both private and commercial projects. You can use it on as many sites as you want. There is no limitation to the number of sites you use the plugin on. A complete documentation is available on pluginkollektiv.org.
You can report security bugs through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team helps validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. Report a security vulnerability.