Advanced Invisible Anti-Spam

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1. ★★★★★ Kdatum

   11.0y ago

   After installation of this plug-in there was no spam any more.

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2. ★★★★★ cstef

   11.2y ago

   Every single day we were getting new user registration spam and there was no end in sight. This plugin stopped all of it dead, and real users are not inconvenienced at all, as it is invisible. Install and forget it, top notch work!

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3. ★★★★★ Li-An

   11.6y ago

   Works nicely on my main blog – no spam any more.

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4. ★★★★★ master412160

   11.7y ago

   Just what I was looking for.

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5. ★★★★★ jurgen.wolfgang

   11.8y ago

   Thank you for screwing up my weekend!!! I had a really bad experience by using your plugin. My mistake was that I’ve activated it on Friday night and after that I went to sleep. Wrong choice! I spent the whole weekend cleaning up the comments. I’ve got 873 spam comments in about 10 hours!! I’ve contacted my developer and he starts laughing after he had a look at the plugin’s code. In less than 15 minutes he was able to create a simple php script using CURL and started to post spam comments to my web site(just to prove that the plugin is incapable to stop the spammers). Dude, if you have no ideea what you’re doing, let others to create such plugins. I think that other solutions like Security-protection is much more reliable.

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6. ★★★★★ jrolson

   11.9y ago

   I was looking for something that worked better than Akismet. Now I have no more spam!

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7. ★★★★★ James Dilworth

   11.9y ago

   We were being blasted with spam, and even though Akismet caught 99% of it, the other 1% was a significant annoyance. This stopped spam dead in it’s tracks. Wa-hoo.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-06-10 400+ → 300+ down after 337 days in tier
2. 2024-07-08 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
3. 2024-07-07 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in tier
4. 2024-07-05 500+ → 400+ down after 409 days in tier
5. 2023-05-23 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2023-05-22 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2023-05-21 600+ → 500+ down after 5 days in tier
8. 2023-05-16 500+ → 600+ up after 2 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Kama SpamBlock 4K+ installs · 4.5★ · 4 shared tags A
• Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A
• M Math Quiz 300+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
• Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5M+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• Simple CAPTCHA with Cloudflare Turnstile 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Gravity Forms Zero Spam 100K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A

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Advanced Invisible Anti-Spam: 300+ active installs, 4.4★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-30. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/advanced-invisible-anti-spam