By guwiiBlock Specific Spam Woo Orders Plugin
A simple plugin to automatically block spam Woo orders that began in October 2020.
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.
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 are only used by spam bots, so there is no need to worry about false positives.
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FAQ
Yes, where possible, I will try my best to add additional checks if the attack vectors change.
Changelog
0.75
- Tested Compatibility with WP 6.5.2 + WC
0.7
- Update logic slightly to simplify checks. Names are now also array-based if people wanted to manually extend.
- Added ability to translate/localize the Spam Validation message with typical language translators (WPML etc).
- Confirming support with WP 6.4 and Latest WooCommerce
0.6
- Added a new function to handle checking against multiple blocked domains, now including [“@fakemail”]
- Confirming support with WP 6.1 and Latest WooCommerce
0.55
- Tested support with WP 6.0 and latest WC – works fine.
0.54
- Updating supported versions for WP and WooCommerce
0.53
- Adding support for readme.txt changelogs.
0.52
- Updating support for WooCommerce – no code changes, minor updates to comment wording.
0.51
- Initial release.