Block List Updater vs Blacklist Manager – WooCommerce Anti-Fraud, Blacklist & Checkout Verification

Few users are familiar with the comment block list built into WordPress. Located in the WordPress admin area under “Settings”—“Discussion”, that block list for incoming comments accepts values (words) to identify spam by. Additionally to plugins like Antispam Bee in order to fight spam successfully a curated comment block list is recommendable. You can either update the list manually, or utilize a very detailed global comment block list that gets updated on a regular basis. Block List Updater has been developed to keep your comment block list in your WordPress installation up to speed with the curated global list on GitHub. The plugin will check the global comment block list on GitHub multiple times a day. Whenever new anti-spam values have been added to the global list, Block List Updater will read the global list and update your WordPress database accordingly. While the check-up process will run several times a day, the plugin will only update the database when it detects an actual change of the global comment block list on GitHub. Support Community support via the support forums on wordpress.org We don’t handle support via e-mail, Twitter, GitHub issues etc. Contribute Active development of this plugin is handled on GitHub. Pull requests for documented bugs are highly appreciated. If you think you’ve found a bug (e.g. you’re experiencing unexpected behavior), please post at the support forums first. If you want to help us translate this plugin you can do so on WordPress Translate. Credits Author: Sergej Müller Maintainers: pluginkollektiv

Blacklist Manager is a WooCommerce blacklist, anti-fraud, and spam prevention plugin for stores that need to block fake orders, suspicious customers, spam registrations, and unwanted form submissions. The free plugin is a complete local protection toolkit, not a Premium trial. Use blacklist rules for phone numbers, email addresses, IP addresses, and email domains at WooCommerce checkout, registration, comments, product reviews, REST API orders, and supported WordPress forms. The plugin works with WooCommerce Classic Checkout, WooCommerce Checkout Blocks, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, and WPForms. What the free plugin includes Manage local email, phone, IP address, and email-domain entries through Suspects and Blocklist workflows. Stop matching identities at WooCommerce checkout and protect registration, comments, product reviews, supported forms, and WooCommerce REST API orders. Require built-in checkout email verification for the policies you configure. Core owns and runs email verification; phone OTP and Twilio/TextMagic SMS transport belong to Blacklist Manager Premium. Configure free customer notices and admin alerts, then review dashboard blacklist and detection statistics. Documentation | Support | Demo Key Features WooCommerce checkout protection: Block or review orders using phone, email, IP address, and email domain rules. Suspect and blocked lists: Review risky identities before moving confirmed abuse to the blocklist. Fast blacklist management: Add entries from the dashboard or directly from the WooCommerce order screen. Registration protection: Stop signups that match blocked emails, IP addresses, or email domains. Comment and review blocking: Prevent comments and product reviews from blacklisted emails. Form spam protection: Check Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, and WPForms submissions against blacklist data. Checkout email verification: Require a Core-owned email verification code before allowing checkout to continue. WooCommerce REST API protection: Block blacklisted identities from creating orders through external apps or integrations. Custom notices and alerts: Customize customer-facing block messages and admin email alerts. Dashboard stats: Review blacklist entries and detection attempts from the admin area. Checkout Compatibility Blacklist Manager supports WooCommerce Classic Checkout, WooCommerce Checkout Blocks, and many third-party checkout plugins that use standard WooCommerce checkout and order creation flows. Global Blacklist Decisions Blacklist Manager can optionally connect your store to Global Blacklist Decisions, a separate broader-risk service that checks order identities such as email, phone, IP address, address, and email domain against network data. It is not required for local Core protection and is not a prerequisite for Premium. Learn more about Global Blacklist Decisions Premium Features Consider Blacklist Manager Premium when recurring abuse makes manual blacklist maintenance too time-consuming, when checkout or payment patterns need automatic action, when repeat attackers change individual identity fields, or when your team needs deeper investigation and audit tools. Premium is the advanced local/store extension. It adds: Risk scoring for blacklist, identity, IP, address, payment, device, and order pattern signals. Automation rules to auto-suspect, auto-block, or auto-review orders. Payment intelligence for Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, Braintree, WooPayments, AVS, card country, and payer mismatch signals. Device identity checks to link repeat abuse across emails, phones, IPs, addresses, and accounts. Advanced blocking for customer name, address, device, disposable email, disposable phone, country, VPN, and proxy signals. Activity logs, import/export, cleanup tools, permissions, multi-store sync, CAPTCHA, IP intelligence, geocoding, and email validation integrations. Phone OTP runtime and Twilio/TextMagic SMS transports; Core continues to own checkout email verification. Explore Premium Supported Plugins and Integrations Supported plugins WooCommerce Contact Form 7 Gravity Forms WPForms Premium integrations WooCommerce Stripe Gateway, Payment Plugins for Stripe WooCommerce, WooCommerce PayPal Payments, Payment Plugins for PayPal WooCommerce, Braintree for WooCommerce, Mollie Payments for WooCommerce, and WooPayments. Cloudflare, reCAPTCHA v3/v2, hCaptcha, IP-api, BigDataCloud, ZeroBounce, NumCheckr, Google Maps, Twilio, and TextMagic. Use Cases Block fake WooCommerce orders before payment review. Prevent repeat abuse from known phone numbers, email addresses, IP addresses, and domains. Reduce spam registrations, comments, product reviews, and form submissions. Require Core email verification during checkout without installing Premium. Add Premium phone OTP when a store also needs SMS-based phone ownership checks. Review suspicious customers before moving them to the blocklist. Use Global Blacklist Decisions as an additional fraud signal.