WP Spam Question Filter

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1. ★★★★★ Seravo.com

   6.4y ago

   Crude and simple, but works as it should.

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2. ★★★★★ Jon Hardison

   11.7y ago

   Thank you! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! Been running AKISMET for years and while I have a very low number of uncaught SPAMs across all the sites we manage, the volume of comments many of our sites are process was ridiculous! I mean in the 200 – 4000 per day range. The nice thing about this is that it made seeing what plugins worked (and which didn’t) really easy. Install, activate, wait 5 minutes for a pass or fail. Of all the ones I tested, yours was the only one that actually worked and I couldn’t be happier. Sure, one or two still make it through, but when you’re talking about the difference between 15 total SPAMs an hour across 50 sites and 25K… It’s like I got a free server for using your plug-in. Just wanted to say thanx! 🙂

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3. ★★★★★ Otto Kekäläinen

   12.2y ago

   Does exactly what it needs to do very well, and nothing extra.

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4. ★★★★★ Viljami Kuosmanen

   12.2y ago

   No captcha, no pain. So simple.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.0 Stable announcement 1.0
2. — Version 0.2.5 Bugfix release 0.2.5
3. — Version 0.2.4 Initial release to WordPress.org 0.2.4

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-08-12 1K+ → 2K+ up after 10 days in tier
2. 2026-08-02 2K+ → 1K+ down after 144 days in tier
3. 2026-03-11 1K+ → 2K+ up after 54 days in tier
4. 2026-01-16 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2026-01-15 800+ → 900+ up after 6 days in tier
6. 2026-01-09 700+ → 800+ up after 15 days in tier
7. 2025-12-25 600+ → 700+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2025-12-24 500+ → 600+ up after 6 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).

• Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• Gravity Forms Zero Spam 100K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
• Maspik – Multi-Layer Spam Protection 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• M Message Filter for Contact Form 7 1K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
• Honeypot Anti Spam for Forminator Forms 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags C
• Anti-Captcha (anti-spam botblocker) 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D

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WP Spam Question Filter: 2K+ active installs, 5.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-spam-question-filter