12 Best WordPress Spam Plugins
Protect your WordPress site from spam with powerful anti-spam plugins. Block spam comments, prevent form submissions, and maintain site quality.
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.
Limit Login Attempts Reloaded – Login Security, Brute Force Protection, Firewall
Active Installations: 2,000,000+
1,353 ratings
Updated: 2/10/2025
Block excessive login attempts and protect your site against brute force attacks. Simple, yet powerful tools to improve site performance.
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.
ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7
Active Installations: 300,000+
89 ratings
Updated: 11/12/2024
Adds reCaptcha v2 from Contact Form 7 5.0.5 that was dropped on Contact Form 7 5.1
WP Mail Logging
Active Installations: 300,000+
301 ratings
Updated: 12/30/2024
Log, view, and resend all emails sent from your WordPress site. Great for resolving email sending issues or keeping a copy for auditing.
Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware Scanner and Security Hardening
Active Installations: 700,000+
383 ratings
Updated: 2/12/2025
The Sucuri WordPress Security plugin is a security toolset for security integrity monitoring, malware detection and security hardening.
Stop WP Emails Going to Spam
Active Installations: 10,000+
51 ratings
Updated: 2/26/2025
Fixes WordPress emails going to spam/junk folders. The default settings often resolve the issue.
Simple Cloudflare Turnstile – CAPTCHA Alternative
Active Installations: 70,000+
164 ratings
Updated: 2/12/2025
Add Cloudflare Turnstile to WordPress, WooCommerce, Contact Forms & more. The user-friendly, privacy-preserving reCAPTCHA alternative. 100% free!
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.
Delete Pending Comments
Active Installations: 10,000+
94 ratings
Updated: 1/28/2024
A quick way to delete all pending and spam comments. Useful for victims of spammer attacks.
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.
reCAPTCHA for WooCommerce
Active Installations: 20,000+
58 ratings
Updated: 1/15/2025
Add Google reCAPTCHA to your WooCommerce Checkout, Login, and Registration Forms.
How We Rank Plugins
To determine the Best WordPress 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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