Friendly Captcha for WordPress
Friendly Captcha is a privacy-first anti-bot solution that protects WordPress website forms from spam and abuse. Do you use a captcha like reCAPTCHA to keep out bots? Friendly Captcha is a powerful anti-spam service that blocks spam-bots without annoying captcha images and protects user privacy. How Friendly Captcha Works Friendly Captcha is a tool for preventing spam on your website. Other CAPTCHAs are a burden on your users, Friendly Captcha respects your users. Friendly Captcha is a proof-of-work based anti-bot solution in which the user’s device does all the work. We generate a unique crypto puzzle for each visitor. Solving it will usually take only a few seconds. As soon as the user starts filling the form it starts getting solved. By the time the user is ready to submit, the puzzle is probably already solved. Friendly Captcha prevents spam and doesn’t punish real users in doing so. Privacy Notices No personal information Our anti-bot service does not store personal data from your end users. See our Privacy Policy for End Users to learn more. No cookies Our end user solution does not use cookies. This protects your end users from being tracked and followed from site to site. No discrimination Normal CAPTCHA tasks are not easy for all humans. Our solution works without labeling tasks and is thus accessible to everyone. Decentralized data processing By default, requests are processed in the point-of-presence closest to where it is accessed by the end user. See our Privacy Policy for End Users to learn more. Join thousands of organizations in switching to a privacy-first anti-bot solution. Forms and Plugins Supported WordPress Login Form WordPress Register Form WordPress Reset Password Form WordPress Comments CoBlocks Contact Form 7 Divi Contact Forms Elementor Pro Forms FluentForm Gravity Forms Ultimate Member Login Form Ultimate Member Register Form Ultimate Member Reset Password Form WooCommerce Login Form WooCommerce Register Form WooCommerce Checkout Form WooCommerce Lost Password Form WPForms Profile Builder Login Form Profile Builder Register Form Profile Builder Reset Password Form Forminator Formidable Avada Form Builder If you see an integration that’s missing, please open a pull request However, you may wish to email the authors of plugins you’d like to support Friendly Captcha: it will usually take them only an hour or two to add native support if they choose to do so. This will simplify your use of Friendly Captcha, and is the best solution in the long run.
MP Spam Be Gone
MP Spam Be Gone is the simplest, most effective Spam blocker without difficult CAPTCHA responses needed by the user. This plugin was inspired by some of the best Anti-Spam plugins available on WordPress. Inspirations: Spam Free WordPress by Todd Lahman, LLC Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin by Andy Bailey Simple Trackback Validation with Topsy Blocker by Tobias Koelligan This plugin has aspects from all of the above mentioned plugins to form the most complete and dead simple Anti Spam plugin on WordPress. This plugin doesn’t write anything to your database while preventing comment spam and trackback spam. From Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin, I used the concept of having a checkbox display to the user in order to prevent automated Spam. To me this is the best way (and least intrusive) to completely prevent automated spam from ever even being written to the database in the spam que. It is physically impossible to get a false positive, since you either checked the button or not. The flaw with this plugin is that it does not work with Javascript disabled. To combat that flaw, I use the copy and paste password fields from the Spam Free WordPress plugin. These fields are in a tag, and only appear if Javascript is disabled. Unlike, the Spam Free WordPress plugin, these passwords are generated on the fly and never stored in the database. These plugins primarily stop comment spam. In order to stop trackback spam, I added the IP address check, URL check, and Topsy check functions from Simple Trackback Validation with Topsy Blocker. If a trackback is identified as spam because of the IP address or Topsy, it is deleted and never written to the database. If a trackback is identified as spam because of the URL, it is marked as spam and sent to the Spam que. The reason that these are not automatically deleted, is because it is possible that the referring page is using a shortlink and therefore the full URL would not appear on the page in the first place. When combined, this plugin will stop all automated spam and trackbacks. It is intended to replace the above plugins. You can’t find a plugin simpler than this – set it and forget it. No options = no modifications to the database.
