Block Specific Spam Woo Orders
This plugin prevents a specific set of WooCommerce fake/spam orders. Simply install and activate the plugin; there are no settings or tweaks to be made unless you want to add your own filters. The plugin extends WooCommerce’s built-in checkout validations to check for a specific set of known spam email accounts and names. If triggered, the spam bot simply cannot checkout and importantly does not get to the account creation stage. The names/emails it checks for would only be used by spam bots, so there is no need to worry about false positives. If you’ve found this plugin useful, you can support my work by buying me a coffee at: Buy Me a Coffee. How to Use Custom Filters Starting from plugin version 0.77, you can extend the list of blocked email domains and blocked customer names using custom filters. Available Filters: BSSO_extra_domains: Add custom email domains to block during the checkout process. BSSO_extra_names: Add custom first names to block during the checkout process. Example Usage To use these filters, add code to your theme’s functions.php file or a custom plugin. 1. Blocking Additional Email Domains If you want to block additional email domains like exampledomain.com and spamdomain.net, use the BSSO_extra_domains filter. Domains can be supplied with or without a leading @. Code Example: add_filter('BSSO_extra_domains', function () { return ['exampledomain.com', 'spamdomain.net']; }); 2. Blocking Additional First Names If you want to block additional first names like spambot and faker, use the BSSO_extra_names filter. Code Example: add_filter('BSSO_extra_names', function () { return ['spambot', 'faker']; }); Complete Example Here’s how you might use both filters together: Code Example: add_filter('BSSO_extra_domains', function () { return ['exampledomain.com', 'spamdomain.net']; }); add_filter('BSSO_extra_names', function () { return ['spambot', 'faker']; });
Stop Signup Spam
Stop Signup Spam will prevent user registration of anyone trying to sign up with an the email address or IP address that has been reported to Stop Forum Spam. Contrary to what the name implies, Stop Forum Spam can be used with any web service, not just forums. At this time, Stop Signup Spam integrates with: The core WordPress registration form Restrict Content Pro MemberPress Give By installing this plugin, you consent to an API call sent from your WordPress site to Stop Forum Spam after every attempted user registration. The API call includes the user’s email address and IP address. It is a similar concept to Akismet, except instead of checking for blog comment spam, it checks for user signup spam. Unlike Akismet, no API key is required to query Stop Forum Spam’s database. Partly because of this, I decided not to include a settings page in the Stop Signup Spam plugin. Just activate and you are all set. The plugin does not log any user registration info. Any data sent to Stop Forum Spam would fall under their privacy policy. Please note that Stop Forum Spam is a third-party service that I have no affiliation with. I just found it, could not find any existing WordPress plugins that worked with it, and built one myself. It has helped me cut down on signup spam on a free membership site that I run, and I hope it will help you do the same.
