11 Best WordPress Anti-Spam Plugins
Protect your WordPress site from spam with effective anti-spam plugins. Guard comments, forms, and user registrations against automated spam and malicious actors.
Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
Active Installations: 6,000,000+
1,121 ratings
Updated: 2/14/2025
The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.
Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk
Active Installations: 200,000+
3,040 ratings
Updated: 3/27/2025
Spam protection, anti-spam, firewall, premium plugin. No spam comments & users, no spam contact form & WooCommerce anti-spam.
WP Armour – Honeypot Anti Spam
Active Installations: 200,000+
1,028 ratings
Updated: 3/4/2025
Fastest growing Anti Spam plugin. No API calls, subscriptions, captcha or puzzle. Full GDPR complaint. For comments, contact form, login, registration
Antispam Bee
Active Installations: 700,000+
221 ratings
Updated: 11/11/2024
Sophisticated antispam plugin for effective daily comment and trackback spam-fighting. Built with data protection and privacy in mind.
Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers
Active Installations: 90,000+
82 ratings
Updated: 6/15/2024
Protect email addresses and phone numbers on your site and hide them from spambots. Easy to use & flexible.
Blackhole for Bad Bots
Active Installations: 40,000+
145 ratings
Updated: 3/25/2025
Blackhole is a WordPress security plugin that detects and traps bad bots in a virtual black hole, where they are denied access to your entire site.
Maspik – Advanced Spam Protection
Active Installations: 20,000+
69 ratings
Updated: 3/20/2025
🛡️ Intelegent Spam Protection - Powerful Security Without CAPTCHA The most efficient spam protection for WordPress forms and comments.
WPBruiser {no- Captcha anti-Spam}
Active Installations: 10,000+
212 ratings
Updated: 10/14/2020
An extremely powerful antispam plugin that blocks spam-bots without annoying captcha images.
Spam Destroyer
Active Installations: 6,000+
53 ratings
Updated: 4/18/2024
Kills spam dead in it's tracks. Be gone evil demon spam!
Anti-Spam: Spam Protection | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms
Active Installations: 40,000+
242 ratings
Updated: 7/6/2024
Robust security and spam prevention. Leverage our pre-defined allow/block lists. Adjust configurable settings on too many hits, quick responses, etc.
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Honeypot for Contact Form 7 — Protect Contact Form 7 spam with ease! [100% FREE Anti-Spam Plugin]
Active Installations: 300,000+
119 ratings
Updated: 11/13/2024
Honeypot for Contact Form 7 adds honeypot non-intrusive anti-spam functionality to CF7 forms.
How We Rank Plugins
To determine the Best WordPress Anti-Spam Plugins we used a comprehensive scoring system that considers multiple factors. We analyze active installations, download counts, user ratings, and rating consistency on a weekly basis. To ensure quality, we only include plugins with a substantial number of reviews. This methodology helps us identify plugins that are not only popular but also consistently reliable and well-maintained.
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