by Marcel Pol 5 (21 reviews)

La Sentinelle antispam

Name: La Sentinelle antispam
Rating: 5.0 (21 reviews)
Author: Marcel Pol

Feel safe knowing that your website is safe from spam. La Sentinelle will guard your WordPress website against spam in a simple and effective way.

La Sentinelle antispam ranks #4,001 among WordPress.org plugins with 3,000+ active installations, is #154 of 2,896 in the Discussion & Community category, a 5/5 rating from 21 reviews, and was last updated Aug 24, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v4.1.1 Current Version v4.1.1

Updated 4 weeks ago Last Update on 24 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 10 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#154 of 2,896 in Discussion & Community Top 5% by installs Downloads -60.1% this week Actively maintained

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Plugin Details

Version: 4.1.1
Last Updated: Aug 24, 2026
Requires WP: 4.1+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.0 or higher
Author: Marcel Pol

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5
Reviews: 21
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 protect comment, login, and registration forms from spam without relying on third-party services. It solves spam form submissions by using JavaScript-based filters like honeypot, nonce, and form timeout checks, along with an optional Stop Forum Spam lookup, while logging blocked attempts and staying invisible to visitors.

Honeypot antispam filter
Nonce antispam filter
Form Timeout antispam filter
Stop Forum Spam integration
Settings page for configuration
Logging for Comments and Custom forms
Spam submission statistics per form
Protects WooCommerce, Contact Form 7, WPForms

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about La Sentinelle antispam

Spam is a social problem, while antispam solutions are technical. There is no way that a technical solution to a social problem will have a 100% perfect match ratio on spam with a 0% perfect match ratio on real messages. I get false positives It could be that you have a JavaScript error. That way the spamfilters won't work and all messages get flagged as spam. You could go to your form page, right click on the page, select "Inspect Element" > Console-tab. Reload the page and see if there are errors in your console. I am being targeted by a spammer That is unfortunate. The default spamfilters in this plugin only protect against general spambots that are targeting any form on any website. First thing you can do is enable the 'Stop Forum Spam' spamfilter, that should help against most human spammers and targeted attacks, though only for default forms in WordPress Core. If that doesn't help, I advise to add an extra plugin in the form of OOPSpam, that should provide a good defense against human spammers and targeted attacks.

That makes this plugin less valuable. It will be more expensive to them though, which in general makes it a good thing.

Enable Registration form filtering, also enable Stop Forum Spam filter in settings. Go to a registration form under '/wp-login.php?action=register'. As username, use ‘spammer’. You should not be able to register with this username. You can check to see the statistics under Settings > La Sentinelle > About. It should increase the counter on registration.