Zero Spam for WordPress

The plugin seems to be highly effective against combating spam comments, registrations etc.

Support team is very fast in replying to support requests, going above and beyond to develop solutions for customers.

I recommend.

Has been my go-to anti-spam plugin for quite some time. I've used many of the techniques individually on many sites. Having them rolled up into a single plugin is just amazing! All 1-star reviews that say it doesn't work, don't have it setup/integrated properly, which can take a little bit of effort. There is no magical anti-spam protection that instantly happens when you activate it. BUT, once you do implement a few of the techniques this plugin provides, spam becomes a thing of the past. Prior to v5.2.15, would have been an easy 5-star rating. Because of v5.2.15, I regrettably have to give it 1-star review. Plugin author: This is an ANTI-SPAM plugin, NOT a Ukraine support plugin. If you want to show your support for Ukraine, make a plugin for it. DON'T ruin a useful plugin by injecting unrelated political beliefs it into it. Blocking spam is blocking spam. Supporting Ukraine is supporting Ukraine. Mix them together and you just end up ruining both. v5.2.15 feat(ukraine): we’ll no longer provide protection for .ru, .su, and .by domains & will display a banner of support for the ukrainian people on those sites – united with ukraine Personal Note to the Plugin Author: It's your plugin, you can do what you want, but here's an important question: Is this plugin for YOU (the plugin author) to broadcast political beliefs, or for US (the plugin users) to block spam? Between those two, which one is more important? Pick one and go with it. If you pick personal political beliefs over plugin user functionality then it's only a matter of time until someone takes all of your hard work on this plugin, removes your political beliefs, releases it as a new plugin, and surpasses you in # of installs, making this plugin obsolete. You will be your own undoing. Would hate to see that happen to an otherwise WONDERFUL & AMAZING plugin! Remove personal politics from this plugin, and my review will change to the 5-star review that it deserves.

I used this plugin to reduce spam and it works like a treat. Highly recommended.

This plugin undergoes a UI change every few months, and continues to make the same mistake - it doesn't remember what the previous settings were on 'big' updates. Which is a huge dev failure. If you have it on multiple sites, suddenly your contact form is getting spammed to high heaven again. Then you have to go back in, and redo the settings.

Plugin keeps telling me to upgrade even after I dismiss the notice.

This is a must-install plugin. Didn't take a hit on performance and the obnoxious barrage of spam has STOPPED! So much frustration out of my life since install.

Since there is a paying version, the free version let through significantly more spam, in my opinion. The spammy banner urging you to pay, has a dismiss link. It does not dismiss the banner, but takes you to the settings page to update to a paid account. The banner consistently returns, nagging you into paid account. Are there alternatives?

I was getting hundreds of spam registration, comments all day long, and fraudulent credit card submissions in WPGive. I installed Zero Spam and it came to a stop! LOVE this plugin!

Firstly, I get it. Plugin developers want to get paid, and where they have a premium add-on it's reasonable to make sure that website owners can be prompted to upgrade. Sadly this plugin has gone down the route of adding an overly threatening sales message that is not dismissible. My website is not at risk if I don't subscribe to your service. You're providing an optional layer of security. If I click "dismiss" I expect the notice to go away, not to be take away from *my* dashboard to your sales page.

Add their ads to your site. Handles 2 out of 5 points.