Anti-Spambot vs DawsonyWeb – Security Shield

Obfuscation of email via the [email]...[/email] shortcode syntax using built-in WordPress Codex functionality. Alternative variations: [email]user@example.com?subject=foo+bar&body=baz[/email] creates a mailto: link with subject and body pre-populated [email nolink=1]user@example.com[/email] just displays the email without a link wrapping it [email linktext="click here"]user@example.com[/email] displays the text “click here” with a link to the email address

DawsonyWeb Security Shield protects your WordPress site from comment spam and unauthorised API access. Comment Protection Master switch to completely disable all comments (form, REST API, XML-RPC, feeds) Invisible honeypot field to trap bots Minimum comment length enforcement Block all links or cap links per comment Require login to comment Keyword/phrase blocklist API & REST Hardening Disable XML-RPC entirely (removes X-Pingback header too) Hide /wp/v2/users endpoint to prevent username harvesting Require authentication for all REST API requests Optionally disable the REST API completely Block author enumeration via /?author=N Spam Rules Per-IP comment rate limiting (configurable max and time window) IP address blocklist — blocked IPs receive a 403 on any front-end request Rolling activity log (last 200 events)