Block Comment Spam Bots vs WP Webhooks – Automate repetitive tasks by creating powerful automation workflows directly within WordPress

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.

Put your website on autopilot by automating manual tasks to leverage your time and resources for what’s really important to your project or business. WP Webhooks lets you connect your website, plugins and apps together using powerful no-code automations. Browse 100+ Integrations | Compare Free vs Pro | Features WP Webhooks Automations can be used in three different ways: Trigger (Send Data): A trigger sends information from your WordPress website on a specific event (e.g. when a user logs in), to any API or external service of your choice (e.g. Zapier, Make, Pabbly, …). Action (Receive Data): An action is the reversed way of the trigger. It allows you to receive data on your website from any API or external service (e.g. Zapier, Make, Pabbly) which then executes a specific functionality on your WordPress website (e.g. creating a user or post). Flows (Pro) A Flow allows you to connect both the triggers and actions together and create tasks that are executed in a consecutive order. E.g. When a new user is created (trigger), send an email to the user. To give you some practical automation examples, here are a few things you can do via our plugin: Usage examples Create a WordPress user as soon as a new signup happens on Teachable Create a WordPress post using Alexa (Voice Control) Use Make, Pabbly, Zapier, etc. to update a user and its meta values Create a Woocommerce order from some Airtable data Send data once a Gravity Form submission was received Send data after a user filled out a WPForms form Send data to intercom when a user logs into your WordPress website Fire your own PHP code based on incoming data Automation Features & Integrations Plugin related Create unlimited webhook action URLs and add unlimited triggers All of our integrations are available within a single plugin file. No need for any extra plugins. Test all triggers and actions within a single click Authenticate every trigger and action. Supported are: API Key, Bearer Token and Basic Auth In-plugin extension management Advanced settings for each webhook trigger url Fully translatable and ready for multilingual sites Fully WPML compatible Advanced Developer Hooks Optimized settings page for more control Supports XML, JSON, plain text/HTML, forms, and form urlencode Supports the following request methods: POST (Default), GET, HEAD, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS, PATCH Supports Zapier, Pabbly, Make, Integrately, automate.io and many more Paid Member Subscriptions related integrations Trigger: Send data once a Payment is created or a specific status is reached Trigger: Send data once a Subscription is created or a specific status is reached Trigger: Send data before or after a user is created Profile Builder related integrations Action: Approve user Action: Unapprove user Action: Confirm user email Trigger: Send data once a user edits his profile Trigger: Send data once a user logs in or registers Trigger: Send data once a user confirms his email address Trigger: Send data once a user is Approved or Unapproved through the Admin Approval functionality WordPress related integrations Action: Create, Delete, Search and Retrieve users via webhooks on your website Action: Create, Delete, Search and Retrieve posts via webhooks on your website (Custom post types supported) Action: Create, Update and Delete WordPress comments Action: Send an email via a webhook call Action: Find and get one or multiple users/posts via a webhook call Action: Receive data from a custom API or webhooks URL (Do whatever you want with the incoming data) Action: Create taxonomy terms and term meta (custom taxonomies supported) Trigger: Send data on login, register, update and deletion of a user Trigger: Send data on new post, update post and delete post Trigger: Send data on a new, updated, trashed, or deleted comment Trigger: Send data once an email was sent from your WordPress system Trigger: Send data on custom WordPress hook calls 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integrations Action: Clean the WordPress uploads folder Action: Delete the .htaccess file Action: Delete all custom tables Action: Delete plugins Action: Delete themes Action: Delete WordPress transients Action: Reset WordPress Action: Truncate Custom Tables WP Simple Pay related integrations Trigger: Send data once a “WP Simple Pay” purchase was completed Action: Truncate Custom Tables WP Webhooks related integrations Trigger: Send data once an action of “WP Webhooks” was fired Action: Fire an existing trigger within “WP Webhooks” Turbocharge automations with WP Webhooks Pro WP Webhooks Pro comes packed with many extra features to help take your automations to the next level: Extra plugin features (see full list) Unlimited triggers and actions Unlimited Flows All of our Pro Integrations All of our Pro Features All of our Pro Extensions Advanced security features Whitelabel feature Completely free premium extensions Compare WP Webhooks and WP Webhooks Pro now! Here are some of our premium features for WP Webhooks Pro Create users with user meta (ACF supported) Update users and user meta (ACF supported) Add and/or remove multiple user roles Create posts with post meta (ACF supported) Update posts with post meta (ACF supported) Bulk webhook action to trigger multiple actions at the same time Shortcode webhook action that fires once the shortcode is called Trigger a webhok via a custom link or button on your website WordPress hook webhook action that fires once a specific filter of the WordPress API was called Data Mapping engine to manipulate your incoming/outgoing data Whitelabel feature (see comparison table) Log feature for easier debugging IP Whitelist feature for enhanced security Access token feature for enhanced security Webhook URL action whitelist In-plugin assistant AI Integrations WP Webhooks Pro includes powerful AI integrations to help you build smarter and more dynamic automations: Google Gemini (with Nano Banana support) OpenAI ChatGPT Open Router Use these integrations to connect your WordPress site with modern AI services via webhooks and automate content creation, data processing, and more. Our premium extensions for WP Webhooks Pro Create Blog Post Via Email: Yes, it will allow you to create WordPress posts via Email Execute PHP Code: It is as massive as it sounds. It allows you to run php scripts through webhooks on your WordPress site Code Trigger: This is a next-level extension. You can run code through a webhook everytime WordPress get’s called. Questions? In case you have questions, feel free to reach out to us at any time. We also offer consulting in case you want to archive a bigger project with our plugin. For devs We offer you a very awesome hook system to customize everything based on your needs! Feel free to message us in case you want special features – We love to help!