Avoiding spam is the biggest and the most common problems faced by the website owners these days. And the hunt for the best anti spam plugin for WordPress websites comes to an end with Akismet plugin. Akismet is a premium plugin, not free one. But don't worry there is a new free WordPress plugin called Antispam Bee. Antispam Bee seems to have filled the gap of free plugin space which was empty until now. To some extent Antispam Bee plugin is considered to be effective against comment spam.
Antispam Bee has minimal settings and once these settings are set you can forget about it and let the plugin do its job. Let's see what it has to offer as a free and effective WordPress plugin against comment spam.
Antispam Bee WordPress Plugin Features:
There are a total of 19 features, all these 19 features are checkboxes (or tick boxes). You can check or uncheck based on your need:
- Trust approved commenters.
- Trust commenters with a Gravatar
- Consider the comment time (Not recommended when using page caching)
- BBCode links are spam
- Use regular expressions
- Look in the local spam database (Check for spam data on your own blog)
- Block or allow comments from specific countries
- Allow comments only in certain language
- Delete Antispam Bee data when uninstalling
- Delete comments by spam reasons
- Limit approval to x comments
- Delete existing spam after x days
- Do not save the spam reason
- Spam-Notification by email
- Mark as spam, do not delete
- Generate statistics as a dashboard widget
- Spam counter on the dashboard
- Do not check trackbacks / pingbacks (No spam check for link notifications)
- Check complete site markup for comment forms
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