Spamming is one of the irritating things on any website. Over the time, it makes the site database heavy and subsequently ensures low performance. It takes a lot of time to remove the spam comments manually.
So it’s better to use a best free anti-spam plugin for any WordPress site or blog. But it’s difficult to choose the best one when there are many anti-spam plugins in the WordPress repository. I will be helping you to choose the right one for your blog by providing a list of the best free anti-spam plugins (also, you can check our WordPress Pricing table plugin).
#1. Akismet
Akismet is the #1 anti-spam plugin out there with more that 20+ million satisfied users. This plugin comes as default installation when you first install WordPress. It’s very efficient to perform the anti-spam task through server level filtering (also, check our WordPress Image Gallery plugin).
Important Features
- All the comments are checked through Akismet server and put the potential spam comments into spam folder inside comments tab.
- Admin can manually check the spam comments and approve that if any mistake happens.
- All the spam comments will be deleted after a certain period of time automatically.
- It will save your server space and bandwidth by removing spam comments and load your site faster.
#2. Antispam Bee
Antispam Bee comes with free of cost, ad-free and respects the user’s privacy by following EU data privacy standards. It blocks comments spam and trackback spam very efficiently (also, check our WordPress Facebook Comments plugin).
Important Features
- It will trust the approved commenters with gravatar
- Can validate the IP address before marking as spam or authenticate
- Consider BBcode as spam
- First, it will search for the local database to mark the spam then go for the public anti-spam database.
- Notify the admin about incoming spam comments and provide detail statistics of spam overview inside the WordPress dashboard.
#3. Stop Spammers Spam Prevention
Stop Spammers Spam Prevention is a unique one because it’s all in one spam protection for any WordPress blog site. It supports comments, registration, contact emails, newsletter forms, order, booking, etc (also, check the – Best WordPress eCommerce plugins).
Important Features
- It comes with a Captcha functionality
- Beside from spam protection, it also protects the site from malicious code injection
- It supports many other third party comments, registration or email forms
- There are free add-ons to extend the core capability of this plugin
#4. WordPress Zero Spam
WordPress Zero Spam is very simple and comes with clean code. It improves site performance and loads faster by blocking comments and registration spams. It’s simple to use, just install and activate and forget the spam forever (also, check our WordPress Recurring Countdown Timer plugin).
Important Features
- Support many third party form like Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, BuddyPress, etc.
- It does not come with annoying CAPTCHA
- Supports cache plugins
- Offers theme and plugins integration for any form of your blog site
#5. WP-SpamShield Anti-Spam
After Akismet, this plugin is one of the best and high rated anti-spam plugin in WordPress repository. It supports many third party contact forms, comments form, registration form, etc. This plugin does not take much server resources to run on the site. It runs into the site background and eliminates the spams silently (also, you can check our WordPress Coming Soon plugin).
Important Features
- Removes registration spam, contact spam, comments spam and trackback spam
- Comes with clean code and thus makes the site load faster (also, check our WordPress Membership Plugins list)
- Can work without CAPTCHA
- Supports many third party contact, comment and registration form out of the box
- Blocks the spam by using two method – JavaScript and Algorithm anti-spam layers
- Provides security from DDos attacks, SQL injection, and XSS exploit attacks
- Improves the site performance and ensures friendly users atmosphere
I hope you did like the best free anti-spam plugins list for WordPress. And definitely, it will help you to choose the right one for your blog site (also, you can check the – Best WordPress Profanity Filter Plugins list).
Which one did you like most? Did you think I have missed any good anti-spam plugin to list here? Let me know in the comment section and I will add that anti-spam plugin in this list.