Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam

August 31, 2023

Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam Plugin

Stop a lot of spambots from polluting your site by making visitors identify a custom word displayed as an image before commenting.

Stop a lot of spambots from polluting your site by making visitors identify a random word displayed as an image before commenting and optionally before registering. You can customize the pool of words to display.

Features

  • Toggle whether registered users need to enter the word

  • Random font display

  • No cookies required

  • No JavaScript required

  • Auto-generated audio for visually impaired users

  • Easy-to-read

  • No mapping of words from the code — words are used once or removed after 24 hours

  • Reminder of what was entered if you get the word wrong

  • Selective blocking of trackbacks, pingbacks

  • Easy to translate

  • Compatible with caching plugins

Negatives

  • Purposely no obscuring techniques so that the anti-spam word is easy to read

  • The more people who use this plugin, the more motivation for spambots to target it

Requirements

  • GD Library and FreeType Library (There’s a diagnostic page to tell you whether you have them installed. If needed, just ask your web host to install them!)

  • WordPress 3.2 or higher

Translations

  • ru_RU translation by koc
  • sk_SK translation by Patrik Žec (PATWIST) of http://patwist.com

Installation

Unzip all files to the folder custom-anti-spam in your plugins directory, so that the path is wp-content/plugins/custom-anti-spam/. Then activate the plugin via your WordPress admin section. The plugin should work directly “out of the box”, but all settings can be customized in the Settings > Custom anti-spam page in your WordPress control panel. If you are upgrading from a previous release, de-activate that release first.

FAQ

Please visit the plugin page at https://www.theblog.ca/anti-spam with any questions.

Changelog

3.2.3

  • 2023-08-30: Fix back-end XSS vulnerability

3.2.2

  • 2014-02-08: Minor code cleanup (thanks koc!)

3.2.1

  • 2013-10-07: Support PHP 5 static function calls, bumping WordPress requirement to 3.2+.

3.2.0

  • 2013-03-30: Add dynamic anti-spam field name. Also: standardize translation and upgrade process.

Details

  • Version: 3.2.3
  • Active installations: 300
  • WordPress Version: 3.2
  • Tested up to: 6.3.5

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