La Sentinelle antispam vs OOPSpam Anti-Spam

Feel safe knowing that your website is safe from spam. La Sentinelle will guard your WordPress website against spam in a simple and effective way. It has antispam filters for comment forms and registration forms and can be extended to support plugins. The default settings should catch most spambots, and there is a settingspage to set it up according to your wishes. Current features include: 3 antispam features; Honeypot, Nonce, Form Timeout. These 3 spamfilters depend on JavaScript on the frontend. 1 antispam feature; Stop Forum Spam. Settingspage to set things up according to your wishes. Transparent to the visitor, no nagging with Captcha’s or other annoying things. By default no use of third-party services and no tracking of visitors. Lightweight and simple code. Logging for WordPress Comments and which spamfilter marked it as spam. Logging for Custom forms and which spamfilter marked it as spam. Statistics for every form how many spam submissions were blocked. WordPress forms that are protected: WordPress Comments form. WordPress Login form. WordPress Register form. WordPress Lost Password form. Form Plugins that are protected: Caldera Forms. Clean Login (Login form). Contact Form 7. Easy Digital Downloads (Login form, Register form). Everest Forms. Formidable Form Builder. Forminator. Newsletter Optin Box plugin (noptin) (standalone forms). Ultimate Member (Login form, Register form and Lost Password form). WooCommerce (Login form, Lost Password form). WPForms Lite. WP Job Manager plugin (submit job form when registering is enabled). Support If you have a problem or a feature request, please post it on the plugin’s support forum on wordpress.org. I will do my best to respond as soon as possible. If you send me an email, I will not reply. Please use the support forum. Translations Translations can be added very easily through GlotPress. You can start translating strings there for your locale. They need to be validated though, so if there’s no validator yet, and you want to apply for being validator (PTE), please post it on the support forum. I will make a request on make/polyglots to have you added as validator for this plugin/locale. How to choose an antispam plugin When you look through the WordPress Plugin Repository you will see more than a hundred antispam plugins. Which one is the best one? Short answer, there is no “best one”. No spamfilter and no method for spamfiltering is perfect. Slightly longer answer, you could try about twenty and choose the one that fits your needs best. But there is also a really long answer. There are different methods that can be used against spam, and every method has its drawbacks. In my opinion, having a low number of false positives is more important than perfectly marking all spam, you don’t want to miss out on important people or information. Nagging the user in some way has a similar effect, the user might not even want to bother with that and just walk away. Third party services: Services like Akismet, OOPSpam, Stop Forum Spam and also reCAPTCHA offer third party services to check for spam. This can be very effective, but you are giving user submitted data away to these third parties and are also giving your users up for tracking them. Captcha’s, reCAPTCHA and Quizz Questions: You are annoying your users and probably sending some of them away. This especially counts for reCAPTCHA for visitors who have third party cookies disabled. Blacklists: Often running behind the facts. That goes for the way of getting users off that list, and also in getting users on that list. Referer check: check if the Referer header is set correctly. You can never trust it is set correctly. Modern browsers are limiting the use of Referers, though for now that is mostly for third-party domains. JavaScript methods: Spammers often (always?) don’t use JavaScript, they just post the form with spammy data. Drawback for this method is that statistics say that about 1 percent of users has JavaScript disabled. Also, some websites have broken JavaScript, which might make the spamfilter break as well. Activation email for registering users. Users only get activated after clicking a link in an activation email. You still have all the non-activated users in your site however. You could have a bright idea about combining several methods, but then you get the drawbacks of all the methods you use. Another complication of choosing a good plugin is that most antispam plugins don’t tell you what methods they use. The documentation doesn’t tell you, and looking at the source code just leaves you confused at the chaos that it often is. My main motivation for writing this plugin is to offer a plugin that does spamfiltering with JavaScript methods in a simple and effective way. The claimed 1 percent of users that has JavaScript disabled will also be tech-savy enough to enable it again for your website. Compatibility This plugin is compatible with ClassicPress. Contributions This plugin is also available in Codeberg.

OOPSpam is a modern anti-spam solution that uses advanced AI and machine learning to protect your WordPress forms and comments from spam. Our system has blocked over 1 billion spam attempts across 3.5M+ websites, maintaining 99.9% accuracy without compromising user privacy or accessibility. Unlike traditional CAPTCHA solutions that can hurt your conversion rates, OOPSpam works silently in the background, analyzing submissions against our extensive database of 500M+ malicious IPs and emails to catch both bot and human spammers. Why Choose OOPSpam? Protect forms without CAPTCHA, JavaScript challenges, or tracking. Catch bot and human spam with AI-powered analysis and contextual checks. Keep control of privacy with optional IP and email analysis, with logs stored in your WordPress database. Filter submissions by country and language, and block VPNs and other high-risk sources. Use rate limiting, manual controls, detailed logs, and exports to manage spam effectively. Protect WooCommerce checkouts from spam and card testing, and use one API key across unlimited websites. What Our Users Say “It’s eliminated all spam, and even the need for CAPTCHA. Setup is quick and the interface is intuitive.” – @gotmick “Very responsive support and dev team. Customer support was amazing, response time was immediate and issues were solved instantly.” – @viv18germany “Pricing is perfect for agencies as they do tiers by actual # of API calls and no limit on the number of sites you can install this on.” – @squarecandy By the Numbers 3.5M+ websites protected daily 1B+ spam attempts blocked 99.9% detection accuracy 24/7 customer support 500M+ malicious IPs and emails in our database Supported form & comment solutions: WordPress Login, Registration, and Lost Password WooCommerce Order & Registration BuddyPress Elementor Forms Elementor Atomic Forms Ninja Forms Gravity Forms Kadence Form Block and Form (Adv) Block Fluent Forms Breakdance Forms WS Form WPDiscuz Forminator WPForms Formidable Forms Contact Form 7 Bricks Forms Toolset Forms Piotnet Forms GiveWP Donation Forms MailPoet Beaver Builder Contact Form Ultimate Member MemberPress Paid Memberships Pro Jetpack Forms MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress SureForms SureCart QuForm HappyForms Pro Avada Forms MetForm ACF Frontend Forms Newsletters by Tribulant OOPSpam Anti-Spam WordPress plugin requires minimal configuration. Check out our comprehensive WordPress guide for detailed setup instructions. To get started quickly, get a key and paste it into the appropriate setting field under Settings=>OOPSpam Anti-Spam. If you have a contact form plugin, make sure you enable spam protection on the settings page. Please note: This is a premium plugin. You need an OOPSpam Anti-Spam API key to use the plugin. Each account comes with 40 free spam checks per month. If you already use OOPSpam on other platforms, you can use the same API key for this plugin.