Blackhole for Bad Bots vs WP Armour – Honeypot Anti Spam

✨ Trap bad bots in a virtual black hole Important: Do NOT use this plugin on sites with caching. Learn more » 👾 Bye bye bad bots.. Bad bots are the worst. They do all sorts of nasty stuff and waste server resources. The Blackhole plugin helps to stop bad bots and save precious resources for legit visitors. 👾 How does it work? First the plugin adds a hidden trigger link to the footer of your pages. You then add a line to your robots.txt file that forbids all bots from following the hidden link. Bots that then ignore or disobey your robots rules will crawl the link and fall into the trap. Once trapped, bad bots are denied further access to your WordPress site. I call it the “one-strike” rule: bots have one chance to obey your site’s robots.txt rule. Failure to comply results in immediate banishment. The best part is that the Blackhole only affects bad bots: human users never see the hidden link, and good bots obey the robots rules in the first place. Win-win! 🙂 ✨ Add a blackhole trap to help stop bad bots Important: Do NOT use this plugin on sites with caching. Learn more » 👾 Features Easy to set up Squeaky clean code Focused and modular Lightweight, fast and flexible Built with the WordPress API Works with other security plugins Easy to reset the list of bad bots Easy to delete any bot from the list Regularly updated and “future proof” Blackhole link includes “nofollow” attribute Plugin options configurable via settings screen Works silently behind the scenes to protect your site Whitelists all major search engines to never block Focused on flexibility, performance, and security Email alerts with WHOIS lookup for blocked bots Complete inline documentation via the Help tab Provides setting to whitelist any IP addresses Customize the message displayed to bad bots 😉 One-click restore the plugin default options Does NOT use or require any .htaccess rules Blackhole for Bad Bots protects your site against bad bots, spammers, scrapers, scanners, and other automated threats. ✨ Not using WordPress? Check out the standalone PHP version of Blackhole! 👾 Whitelist By default, this plugin does NOT block any of the major search engines (user agents): AOL.com Baidu Bingbot/MSN DuckDuckGo Googlebot Teoma Yahoo! Yandex These search engines (and all of their myriad variations) are whitelisted via user agent. So are a bunch of other “useful” bots. They always are allowed full access to your site, even if they disobey your robots.txt rules. This list can be customized in the plugin settings. For a complete list of whitelisted bots, visit the Help tab in the plugin settings (under “Whitelist Settings”). ✨ Check out Blackhole Pro and level up with advanced features! 👾 Exclusive Pro Features Option to disable for logged-in users Threshold control (number of allowed hits) Custom email alerts Custom messages for blocked bots Custom redirect for blocked bots Custom blackhole trigger links Complete inline documentation Block bots based on user agent Block bots based on IP address Whitelist/allow bots by user agent Whitelist/allow bots by IP address Redirect whitelisted bots Set custom HTTP Status Code Full-featured Bad Bot Log with paging, sorting, and field search Manually add bad bots to the Bad Bot Log Geo/IP location lookups for each bad bot Logs number of blocked hits for each bot ..plus everything the free version can do and more. ✨ Learn more and get Blackhole Pro » 👾 Privacy User Data: This plugin automatically blocks bad bots. When bad bots fall into the trap, their IP address, user agent, and other request data are stored in the WP database. No other user data is collected by this plugin. At any time, the administrator may delete all saved data via the plugin settings. Services: This plugin does not connect to any third-party locations or services. Cookies: This plugin does not set any cookies. Credit: Header Image Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech. Blackhole for Bad Bots is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author. 👾 Support development I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books: The Tao of WordPress Digging into WordPress .htaccess made easy WordPress Themes In Depth Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins: BBQ Pro – Blazing fast WordPress firewall Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots Banhammer Pro – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys GA Google Analytics Pro – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics Head Meta Pro – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress REST Pro Tools – Awesome tools for managing the WP REST API Simple Ajax Chat Pro – Unlimited chat rooms USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thank you! 🙂

This plugins block spam submissions using honeypot anti spam technic. No Captcha or extra verification field hassle to the users. Only lets spam bots to suffer using our anti spam filter. Automatic anti spam protection for following forms (Available in Free Version) . No setup required. WP Comments WP Registraton BBPress Forum (bbpress.org) Contact Form 7 (wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7) Gravity Forms (For Non Ajax and Single Page/Step Form – gravityforms.com) WPForms (wpforms.com) Formidable Forms (formidableforms.com) Caldera Forms (calderaforms.com) Toolset Forms (toolset.com) Elementor Forms (elementor.com) Fluent Forms (fluentforms.com) Divi Theme Contact Form (elegantthemes.com) Theme My Login ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-my-login/ ) WooCommerce Reviews Pro GDPR compliant. No tracking, cookie storage or external server calls. WP Armour Extended (Paid Version) supports additional anti spam protection and features. Record Spam Submission, view what spam bot are trying to submit Logs spam bot IPs. Block spam bot IPs if multiple spam is submitted. Add extra level of anti spam filter based on IPs. Stops spam bot from using unwanted bandwidth and save valuable server resource. Spam Keyword Filter marks form submissions as spam when they contain specified words or phrases. WooCommerce Checkout & Registration including Card Testing Orders (woocommerce.com) Easy Digital Downloads Checkout and Registration (easydigitaldownloads.com) QuForm Contact Form (quform.com) Ninja Forms (https://ninjaforms.com) Gravity Forms (For Ajax Based and Multi Step Forms – gravityforms.com) MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress (mc4wp.com) S2 Members (s2member.com) Ulimate Members (ultimatemember.com) Bricks Builder Form (bricksbuilder.io) BricksForge Pro Form (bricksforge.io) Beaver Builder Contact Form Module (Beaver Builder) Strong Testimonials (wordpress.org/plugins/strong-testimonials) Formcraft Form (formcraft-wp.com) Forminator Form (wordpress.org/plugins/forminator) WS Form (wordpress.org/plugins/ws-form) YITH Easy Login & Register Popup for WooCommerce UsersWP (wordpress.org/plugins/userswp) Youzify (youzify.com/) MailPoet (wordpress.org/plugins/mailpoet) Brevo – SendInBlue (wordpress.org/plugins/mailin) JetForm Builder (jetformbuilder.com) HTMLform plugin (htmlformsplugin.com) Avia Enfold Theme (kriesi.at/themes/enfold) BuddyPress (buddypress.org) BuddyBoss (buddyboss.com) Sure Forms (wordpress.org/plugins/sureforms) Everest Forms (wordpress.org/plugins/everest-forms) You can get the WP Armour – Anti Spam Extended from here How our plugin is different than other honeypot anti spam plugins ? Works for most of the forms and wordpress system including registation and comments. So All in one anti spam solution. No external API calls like Akismet or CleanTalk for spam filtering. GDPR Compliant. Spam bots can’t use javascript so we use javascript to insert honeypot anti spam field in the form and spam bots can’t fill it to pass anti spam test. Unique honeypot field name generated for each wordpress installation, so it is hard for spam bots to make one fit for all solution to bypass honeypot anti spam test. No setup required. Just activate the plugin and it enables anti spam for all supported forms, comment and registration. No API or monthly subscription needed like other plugins. Though we have Premium extended version of the plugin for more support with yearly license. Support If you have any issue, you can write to using support forum. Need distance-based delivery fees in WooCommerce? Calculate accurate shipping costs automatically with RoutePricing. Uses Google Maps to set dynamic prices per km/mi — perfect for restaurants, local shops, and delivery businesses. Support Us at Patreon Your support is vital for us to keep fighting spam. By supporting us on Patreon with as little as USD 1, you will help us continue developing of our anti spam plugin. Our other plugins Use Any Font Jquery Validation For Contact Form 7 Jquery Validation For Gravity Forms Block Specific Plugin Updates