by CleanTalk Inc
4.8 (3,198 reviews)
CleanTalk Anti-Spam. Spam Firewall & Bot protection
Top-rated antispam for contact forms, comments, WooCommerce, eCommerce, and login. No CAPTCHAs, no friction, just background anti spam protection.
Compatible with WP 7.0.1
v6.83.1
Current Version v6.83.1
Updated 2 days ago
Last Update on 15 Jul, 2026
Refreshed 10 hours ago
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#244
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24.6M
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Review 4.8 out of 5
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Showing 5 of 5| Keyword | Position | Change | Type | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| spam | 1 | — | Tag | 11 hours ago |
| bot | 1 | — | Tag | 11 hours ago |
| antispam | 2 | — | Tag | 11 hours ago |
| captcha | 2 | — | Tag | 11 hours ago |
| honeypot | 3 | — | Tag | 11 hours ago |
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- Version
- 6.83.1
- Last Updated
- Jul 15, 2026
- Requires WP
- 4.7+
- Tested Up To
- 7.0.1
- PHP Version
- 7.2 or higher
- Author
- CleanTalk Inc
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about CleanTalk Anti-Spam. Spam Firewall & Bot protection
Spammers want to get backlinks from your site to improve their site's PageRank or redirect your visitors to malicious sites.This level of spam can damage your reputation with readers and commentators if you fail to tackle it. It is not uncommon for some WordPress websites to receive hundreds or even thousands of comments every week. However, by using a CleanTalk plugin, spam can be easily handled by your WordPress website.
Yes, it is. The plugin doesn't block mobile visitors as well as desktop website visitors. It uses several independent anti-spam tests to decrease the number of false outcomes and to have as low false-positive rate as possible. Multiple anti-spam tests help to avoid false/positive blocks for real website visitors even if one of the tests failed.
Spam comments are being moved to SPAM folder by default or you can set the option to ban spam comments silently.
Please use the email stop_email@example.com for comments, contacts or signups to see how the anti-spam protection works. Also, you can see the logs for the last 7 days in the Dashboard or look at the folder "Spam" for banned comments.
Please, note - administrator's actions are NOT being checked. The plugin uses several simple tests to stop spammers: JavaScript anti-spam test. 99% of spam bots don't have full JavaScript functions support. So, the plugin has the code which can be run by normal visitor and can't be run by the spam bot. Email, IP, domain spam activity list entries check. The plugin uses spam activity database online at cleantalk.org, consisting of more than 20 billion spam activity records of IPs, Emails, Domains and ASN. If the sender's IP or Email is in the database, the sender gets some spam scores. To reduce false/positive rate the plugin not only uses the blacklist test to ban spammers, the sender will be banned when and only when multiple spam tests have been failed. Comment submit time. Spam bots usually submit the info immediately after the page has been loaded, this happens because spam bots don't actually fill the web form, they just send $_POST data to the blog. The normal visitor sends the data after several seconds or minutes.
The plugin does not filter trackbacks or pingbacks, but it can disable them using WordPress core functionality. To enable this option, go to: WordPress Dashboard → Settings → Anti-Spam by CleanTalk → Advanced Settings → "Disable Pingbacks and Trackbacks".
Yes, you can. The plugin has the option to test all pending comments via database of spam active IP/Email, found spam comments will be moved to Trash folder.
The plugin checks all non-spam comments in the blacklist database and shows you those senders who have spam activity on other websites. There are some differences between blacklist database and API to protect you from spam bot registrations/comments online. Blacklists show all history of spam activity, but our API (which is used in spam tests) relies on other parameters too: last day of activity, number of spam attacks during the last days etc. These mechanisms help us to reduce the number of false outcomes. So, there is nothing strange, if some emails/IPs are not found by bulk comments/accounts test. To check comments please go here: WordPress console -> Comments -> Find spam comments To check users please go here: WordPress console -> Users -> Find spam users
Yes, the plugin is compatible with WordPress MultiUser. Each blog in multisite environment has individual anti-spam options for the protection from spam bots. After the installation I noticed that the number of spam attacks has been increased in the stats There are a few reasons for this: With the indexing of your web-site by the search systems, appearance of external links and better search results position, your web-site attracts more and more spambots. Non-transparent protection systems like CAPTCHA or question/answer, that don't have spam attacks stats, don't let you see the whole picture, or the picture is incomplete. Counting methods for spam attacks and spam bots are different for different systems, thus the diversity appears. We seek to provide detailed stats.
The plugin has several options to detect spam bots and humans. If you just post spammy text like this: "I want to sell something", "Buy something here.." and etc the comments will be passed, because the plugin detects sender as a human. So, use special email stop_email@example.com to test the anti-spam functionality or wait a few days to see how the plugin works.