Comment Blacklist Updater for WordPress

Please note: After the September 2023 update only users with administrator privileges can use this plugin. If you’re not an admin you will get following error: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page”.

What can I do with this plugin? The plugin updates the “Comment Blacklist” in Settings / Discussion with a list terms from a remote or local source. By default it get’s the data from Github (“wordpress-comment-blacklist by Grant Hutchinson) but you can also get them from any URL or from a local blacklist.txt file.

Why do I want to update the “Comment Blacklist” in Settings / Discussion? If you want to reduce spam received in your comment forms but also in your contact forms (for example when using Contact Form 7), using blacklisted terms can help.

Contact Form 7 encourages to use: Akismet, reCaptcha and the comment blacklist to reduce contact form spam.

Contact Form 7 supports spam-filtering with Akismet. Intelligent reCAPTCHA blocks annoying spambots. Plus, using comment blacklist, you can block messages containing specified keywords or those sent from specified IP addresses.

The best way to reduce the contact form 7 spam is to use a very extensive term database which is updated regulary with new spam terms. And this plugin does exactly this: Updating the blacklist regularly.

Why are you using the “Comment Blacklist for WordPress” from Grant Hutchinson as default source for the blacklist? Since 2011 Grant Hutchinson has been identifying and compiling over 34,000 phrases, patterns, and keywords commonly used by spammers and comment bots in usernames, email addresses, link text, and URIs.

His blacklist is very extensive and that’s why we love it.

As with all compilations, this blacklist is a work in progress and it is updated more or less every month. And each of these updates will be included automatically with the update process that runs every 24 hours.

Sometimes simple is better.

If you know another source that is as extensive as this one, drop us a message and we will check if it’s interesting to add it also as a default.

System requirements PHP version 5.6 or greater.

Comment Blacklist Updater Plugin in your Language! This first release is avaliable in English and Spanish. In the “languages” folder we have included the necessary files to translate this plugin.

If you would like the plugin in your language and you’re good at translating, please drop us a line at Contact us.

Further Reading You can access the description of the plugin in Spanish at: Actualizador lista negra de comentarios | WordPress Plugin.

Contact For further information please send us an email.