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