Comment Guardian – Remove Comment Spam by Language Detection
by Daniele De Rosa · Security
Comment Guardian is an innovative and intelligent spam protection that eliminates comment spam 99.9% of the time.
45 health vs 68 average across 386 Security plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.0.12.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 1509 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
30
now · peak 84
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “50+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-11-20 60+ → 50+ down after 25 days in band
- 2025-10-26 50+ → 60+ up after 2 days in band
- 2025-10-24 60+ → 50+ down after 24 days in band
- 2025-09-30 50+ → 60+ up after 11 days in band
- 2025-09-19 60+ → 50+ down after 2 days in band
- 2025-09-17 50+ → 60+ up after 27 days in band
- 2025-08-21 60+ → 50+ down after 6 days in band
- 2025-08-15 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 6M+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Antispam Bee 700K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Stop Spammers Classic 30K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A - C Cookies for Comments 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
- T Throws SPAM Away 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags B
- D Delete Pending Comments 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags C
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