Translate WordPress with GTranslate vs Block Comment Spam Bots

Professional spammers use programs to automate their spamming. The ‘Block Comment Spam Bots’ (BCSB) plugin efficiently blocks their process. No more comment spam! As no legitimate user will use the professional spammer’s automated process which relies on cURL and WGET commands, real users will never notice the BCSB plugin at work. There are no CAPTCHAS for your visitors to interact with. No silly questions. Just the comment form as designed in any theme. On the admin side, there are no blacklists, special keys (like Askimet), overloaded spam queues, or overworked databases that store spam comments until you manually delete them. Install the plugin and that’s it. Invisible, to you and your visitors. The only change you will notice is in your admin area. The list of comments now has a green check next to them. That way you know that comment was made on your website by a real person and was not bypassed by hacking spammers connecting directly to your server. All that remains is comments made by real people, and while real people can spam, it takes them time and effort. The amount of spam from real people is a lot more manageable than the tsunami from automated spammers, saving you time to concentrate on the important things in life, like your readers, and making connections. We’ve tested it on multiple websites and it wipes out automated spam completely. If it doesn’t on your site, please let us know. ** Geeky Stuff ** …in case you are interested in how it works… tl;dr – This provides a total and easy solution to comment spam from spam bots. Comments are processed by the WordPress wp-post-comments.php file. Automated spammers (‘spam bots’) can provide (‘post’) data directly to that page, bypassing any comment processing, by using CURL/WGET commands. Bypassing the comment form by posting directly (via CURL or WGET commands), is quite easy. Just send the post ID number, and the bot’s fake name and email, and the spammy content. Boom! Comment spam is on your site! The result is comment spam – and that is not always caught by other comment spam checkers. Even if it is caught by programs such as Akismet, processing that spam takes some server resources, including writing to the database. This plugin uses several techniques to ‘sense’ a spambot. There are hidden fields that are changed after a delay. There is a delay in displaying the submit button. And it blocks direct access to the WordPress post/processing functions. The techniques, also used in our standalone “FormSpemmerTrap” (FST) program, and our other anti-spam plugins (like FormSpammerTrap for Comments), are very effective. They use a bit of JavaScript to block spambots – since automated processes via CURL/WGET/etc cannot process JS code. It’s simple: you install this plugin, activate it, and bot comments will stop. Immediately. And it doesn’t add any visual impediments to your comments. No reCaptcha things (which many see as a pain). No silly questions (‘what is 2+8’) on the form. Your comment form does not change. Regular users will not notice a difference. But you will. No more spam comments for you! This is the best solution to block comment spam. We’ve tested it on a site that had 20-40 spam comments a day. With this plugin enabled, the spam comment stopped. Immediately. And there have been none since installing this plugin. ** Not one. Zero.** The Admin, Comments list page is modified to show a column with a green checkmark icon if the comment was entered by a real person and not a bot. This is an assurance that the comment was not entered via an automated CURL/WGET to the wp-comments-post.php file. A comment that is on the list that does not show the checkmark was done by a bot. But you won’t see those blocked comments with this plugin enabled. They never get into your database. You can hover over the checkmark icon to see the GUID value indicating a person entered the comment. The plugins ‘Settings’ screen has no settings. You don’t even need to look at the Settings screen. If you do, you’ll see information about the plugin. And there is a CURL command you can use to test the effectiveness of blocking (or not blocking) direct access to the wp-comments-post.php file. The plugin also adds the hidden GUID field to the comment form after a delay to help block bots that are using the comment form to submit. If the hidden field is not submitted then a bot tried to bypass the comment form. And a short delay happens before the comment submit button is displayed – another bot protection.

Translate WordPress with GTranslate plugin uses Google Translate AI translation service to translate wordpress site with Google power and make it multilingual. With 103 available languages your site will be available to more than 99% of internet users. Our paid versions are fully SEO compatible which will increase your international traffic and sales. This translate plugin is a budget multilingual WordPress solution which combines automatic and human translations to save money and is easy to implement. GTranslate is a leading website translation services provider since 2008, it moves away the language barriers. Compared to other translation plugins for WordPress, we use cloud based approach which does not slow down your website. In addition to that, we can offer complete SEO features based on sub-domains with our paid options, which can make your website appear in search engines in different languages which will increase your international traffic and sales. In our paid versions we DO NOT limit the number of words or the number of translated pageviews. You DO NOT pay additionally for automatic translations. Please use GTranslate Support for your questions and support requests! We are multilingual! Please check our FAQ to get quick answers. Features Free Google automatic machine translation Hides Google top frame after translation Translate website on the fly Translate posts and pages Translate categories and tags Menus and widgets translation Themes and plugins translation Right to left language support Google language translator widget Auto-switch language based on browser defined language Available styles Float, Dropdown, Flags, Flags with dropdown, Nice dropdown with flags, Flags with language names, Flags with language codes, Language names, Language codes, Globe, Popup Floating language selector WooCommerce shop translation Multilingual language names in native alphabet Alternative flags for Quebec, Canada, USA, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia Lazy loading for language flags and js libraries to boost performance Lightweight vanilla javascript without dependencies Forum Support Paid Features Multilingual SEO – Enable search engine indexing Neural machine translations with human level translation quality Increase traffic and AdSense revenue Search engine friendly (SEF) URLs Yoast SEO compatible – translate meta keywords, meta description, schema.org data structures, translate sitemaps WooCommerce compatible – translate products, schema.org data structures You can have sub-directory (example.com/es/) or sub-domain (es.example.com) URL structure URL Translation aka slug translation is possible (example.com/about-us → example.es/sobre-nosotros) Add hreflang tags for translated alternatives You can manually correct translations In context translation interface (make corrections without losing the context) Meta data translation (meta keywords, meta description) Translating schema.org microdata for better search engine appearance Seamless updates (cloud service updated on our side – SaaS, you do not need to worry about backups on your side) JSON format translation Translate WooCommerce emails AMP translation (Accelerated Mobile Pages translation) Image localization – Media translation Translation Proxy (aka Translation Delivery Network) Centralized Translation Cache – We revise and improve translations over time Language Hosting (example.fr) User Dashboard with Analytics Live Chat Support See also If you are looking for unlimited, high-quality automatic translations, check out TranslateX – an automatic translation API offering unlimited translation for your website or application. We also offer integration plugins: TranslateX for Loco Translate – integrate TranslateX API directly into Loco Translate for seamless, unlimited automatic translations. TranslateX for TranslatePress – bring unlimited automatic translation to TranslatePress using TranslateX API. These solutions make it easy to supercharge your WordPress multilingual setup with TranslateX’s secure and affordable API. GTranslate WordPress Demo Watch GTranslate Tour Edit Translations Demo (paid)