ARCaptcha – Puzzle Captcha | New-generation Captcha and bot protection
Detect and Defend against Automated Online Threats ARCaptcha is a security service that protects your website and online businesses against malicious bot attacks. ARCaptcha protects your website’s forms, pages, important information, users and customers against account takeover attacks, information theft, spam and other bot-based attacks. Supporting list: ✔ Login form ✔ Register form ✔ Forgot password form ✔ Comments form ✔ CF7 plugin ✔ Sign-in form in WooCommerce Plugin ✔ Sign-up form in WooCommerce Plugin ✔ Forgot password form in WooCommerce Plugin ✔ Purchase form in WooCommerce Plugin ✔ Track order form in WooCommerce Plugin ✔ WPForm Plugin ✔ ElementorPro Plugin ✔ Digits Plugin
Disable Trackbacks
When it comes to spam and pingbacks/trackbacks, the vast majority by far is via trackbacks rather than pingbacks. Very, very few people use trackbacks for legitimate uses anymore (I’ve gotten less than 5 in the last 8 months) as WordPress, etc. all use pingbacks now as their primary ping method. I had already installed Cookies For Comments which successfully stops most spam comments but I still had to deal with the tons of trackback spam. So, I wrote this plugin. It will disable new trackbacks across your site, both legitimate and spam. However since very few people use trackbacks legitimately, this combined with Cookies For Comments should cut your spam down to next to zero. Why should I use this plugin over one of those trackback validator plugins? Most non-Akismet style anti-trackback spam plugins work by connecting to the URL that sent the trackback and looking for a link to your blog. The problem with this is that many spammers actually post links to your blog in their spam posts rendering those types of plugins useless. Even those that check the IP address to make sure it matches are beaten by spam blogs (aka splogs). In the end it’s up to you what to use for anti-spam, but I personally use Cookies For Comments, this plugin, and then Akismet to catch anything that makes it through.
