Honeypot Guard – Silent Anti-Spam vs Kama SpamBlock

Honeypot Guard is a powerful, privacy-focused anti-spam solution that protects your WordPress forms without annoying your visitors with CAPTCHAs. Using invisible detection techniques, it blocks spam bots while maintaining a seamless user experience. Why Choose Honeypot Guard? Unlike CAPTCHA-based solutions that frustrate users and hurt conversions (studies show CAPTCHAs reduce form submissions by 10-40%), Honeypot Guard provides superior spam protection with zero user friction. How It Works Honeypot Guard uses multiple layers of intelligent detection to catch spam automatically: Invisible Honeypot Fields – Hidden fields that real users never see, but bots fill out automatically Dynamic Field Rotation – Constantly changing field names make it harder for sophisticated bots to adapt Timestamp Validation – Detects instant submissions (bots can’t read like humans) Intelligent Gibberish Detection – Catches keyboard mashing and random text patterns Advanced Heuristic Analysis – Pattern-based detection of common spam characteristics Character Script Filtering – Optionally block submissions containing specific character scripts (Cyrillic, Chinese, etc.) Dotted Email Detection – Catches spammers using excessive dots to generate infinite email addresses (e.g. [email protected]) Cookie Verification – Proves JavaScript execution in a real browser environment Key Features Zero User Friction – Completely invisible protection, no annoying puzzles Privacy-Focused – All processing on your server, no third-party tracking by default Granular Blacklisting – Block by email, domain, IP address, or keywords Rate Limiting – Prevent spam floods with configurable submission limits Detailed Spam Logs – View blocked submissions with one-click IP blocking Multi-Language Admin – Available in 9 languages (English, German, Spanish, Italian, Lithuanian, Swedish, Polish, Estonian, Spanish-Mexico) GDPR Compliant – No data sent to external services (unless you enable optional AI detection) Works Automatically – Integrates seamlessly with popular form plugins Supported Form Plugins Contact Form 7 WPForms Gravity Forms Ninja Forms Formidable Forms WordPress Registration Forms WordPress Comments WooCommerce Checkout & Registration bbPress Forums Any HTML form with minimal configuration Advanced Protection Options Cloudflare Turnstile (Optional) – Invisible CAPTCHA that catches headless browsers, Tor/VPN bots, and bot farms. Free up to 1M validations/month. Fails open — never blocks real users if Cloudflare is down. AI-Powered Gibberish Detection (Optional) – Use OpenAI or Anthropic APIs for advanced content analysis Meta Pixel Protection – Block form submission tracking until verification Custom Honeypot Field Names – Define your own field names for added security Whitelist Trusted Users – Bypass checks for logged-in users or specific IPs Privacy & Performance Honeypot Guard is designed with privacy and performance in mind: Lightweight – Adds virtually zero latency to your site No External Calls – Basic protection requires no API calls Cache Compatible – Works with WP Super Cache, W3 Total Cache, WP Rocket, LiteSpeed, and more No Cookies Required – Core functionality works without cookies (optional cookie verification available) Professional Support Need help? Visit mantasdigital.com/honeypot-guard for documentation and support. Privacy Policy Honeypot Guard collects and stores: IP addresses of form submissions (for spam detection and blocking) Form submission data flagged as spam (for review and pattern detection) Timestamps of submissions (for rate limiting) This data is stored in your WordPress database and is never sent to external services unless you enable optional AI-powered detection. You can configure automatic deletion of spam logs in Settings > Honeypot Guard. External Services This plugin can optionally connect to external AI services for advanced gibberish detection. These services are disabled by default and must be explicitly enabled by the administrator. OpenAI API (Optional) When AI gibberish detection is enabled and configured with an OpenAI API key: What it does: Analyzes suspicious form field content to detect nonsensical or spam text Data sent: Only the specific text field being analyzed (not the entire form submission) When sent: Only when a submission is flagged as potentially suspicious and AI detection is enabled Service provider: OpenAI, L.L.C. Terms of use: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use Privacy policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy Anthropic API (Optional) When AI gibberish detection is enabled and configured with an Anthropic API key: What it does: Analyzes suspicious form field content to detect nonsensical or spam text Data sent: Only the specific text field being analyzed (not the entire form submission) When sent: Only when a submission is flagged as potentially suspicious and AI detection is enabled Service provider: Anthropic, PBC Terms of use: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms Privacy policy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy Cloudflare Turnstile (Optional) When Turnstile is enabled and configured with site/secret keys: What it does: Verifies that form submissions come from real browsers, not headless bots Data sent: A challenge token and the visitor’s IP address When sent: On every form submission when Turnstile is enabled Service provider: Cloudflare, Inc. Terms of use: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/ Privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/ Fail-open: If Cloudflare is unreachable, no penalty is applied — real users are never blocked Important: These services are entirely optional. Honeypot Guard provides effective spam protection without any external services using its built-in detection methods. Additional Info Plugin Website Documentation Support GitHub Repository

Kama Spamblock blocks simple automated comment spam. It is invisible to normal visitors and does not use captchas. The plugin protects the standard WordPress comment endpoint, wp-comments-post.php. It adds a small check to the comment form. Direct requests that skip the form are blocked. This is a basic check, not proof that a person wrote the comment. Bots that load the page and run JavaScript can pass it. Kama Spamblock does not replace a full anti-spam service. It also checks pings and trackbacks for a link back to your site. Even if you are using an external comment system like Disqus, Kama Spamblock can add lightweight protection. Automated requests can be posted directly to the ‘wp-comments-post.php’ file, where the plugin can block basic bots. Simple and effective protection Kama Spamblock combines several small checks that are inexpensive for the site and invisible during normal commenting: The protective field name and its unique code rotate together every four hours. Ten recent pairs remain valid for pages served from full-page cache. Each marker is tied to the specific WordPress post, so a marker copied from another comment form is rejected. The form must remain open for at least three seconds before it can be accepted. Protective fields are added only after interaction with the comment submit button. If a valid comment is blocked, a JavaScript-only retry form preserves the entered data. The retry challenge changes its HTML structure to make basic scraping less reliable. Pingbacks and trackbacks must return a successful HTTP response, non-binary content, and a real backlink. These checks deliberately remain lightweight. A capable bot that loads the page, runs JavaScript, and reproduces normal browser behaviour can still pass them. Using Kama Spamblock with other anti-spam plugins Kama Spamblock can work with a full anti-spam plugin or service. It blocks simple direct spam requests first. The other tool can then check the comments that remain. For example, it can analyse comment text, reputation, or behaviour. The plugins complement each other. For this combination to work as intended: The other plugin should use the standard WordPress comment flow, or check comments after Kama Spamblock allows them. The site must show the standard comment form and allow the plugin’s JavaScript to run. Set the correct ID for the form’s submit button in the plugin settings. Test the setup if another plugin replaces the comment form, uses AJAX, or sends comments to its own endpoint. Kama Spamblock may need extra integration, or it may not check those comments.