by MDigital 5 (1 reviews)

Honeypot Guard – Silent Anti-Spam

Name: Honeypot Guard – Silent Anti-Spam
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)
Author: MDigital

Anti-spam protection for forms, signups, and comments using advanced honeypot techniques. No CAPTCHAs, no user friction.

Honeypot Guard ranks #11,846 among WordPress.org plugins with 200+ active installations, is #698 of 4,596 in the Security category, a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews, and was last updated Aug 27, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7.0.6 (Current: 7.1.2)

v2.4.5 Current Version v2.4.5

Updated 3 weeks ago Last Update on 27 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 8 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#698 of 4,596 in Security Top 25% by installs Downloads -22.8% this week Actively maintained

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Active Installs

200+

-17.7%

KW Avg Position

37.3

74.2 better

Downloads

2.7K

+12 today

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100%

Review 5 out of 5

5 (1 reviews)

Next Milestone 300

Total Progress 58%

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.4.5
Last Updated: Aug 27, 2026
Requires WP: 5.0+
Tested Up To: 7.0.6
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: MDigital

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5
Reviews: 1
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to stop spam in forms, signups, and comments without using CAPTCHAs. It uses invisible honeypot fields and other behind-the-scenes detection methods to block bots while keeping the submission process frictionless for real users.

Invisible honeypot fields
Dynamic field rotation
Timestamp validation
Gibberish detection
Heuristic spam analysis
Blacklisting by email, domain, IP
Rate limiting
Spam logs with IP blocking

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Honeypot Guard – Silent Anti-Spam

Yes! Honeypot Guard automatically integrates with Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, and most other popular form plugins without any configuration.

No. Honeypot Guard is lightweight and runs entirely on your server. Basic protection requires no external API calls, adding virtually zero latency.

Yes. Honeypot Guard is compatible with WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, and other popular caching solutions.

Yes. Go to Settings > Honeypot Guard and enable whitelist options for logged-in users or specific IP addresses.

The admin interface is available in: English, German, Spanish, Spanish (Mexico), Italian, Lithuanian, Swedish, Polish, and Estonian.

Yes. Honeypot Guard does not send any data to external services by default. All processing happens on your server. IP addresses are logged only for spam protection and can be configured for automatic deletion.

Yes. Honeypot Guard automatically detects the real visitor IP when behind Cloudflare or other reverse proxies.

Yes. Honeypot Guard protects WooCommerce registration and checkout forms automatically when enabled.