"Spam Blocked by Akismet" Counter Shortcode
Adds a [wpide_akismet_count] shortcode that shows how many spam comments Akismet has blocked on your site, a small trust signal for footers and contact pages.
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Add a Plain-Text Version to HTML Emails
Generates a plain-text alternative for HTML emails that do not include one, which spam filters like and text-only email clients need.
Anonymize Comment IP Addresses After 60 Days
Once a day, shortens the stored IP address of approved comments older than 60 days, so you keep recent IPs for spam handling without holding personal data forever.
Auto-Drafts and Trash Cleanup Tool
Adds Tools > Clean Up Drafts and Trash with counts of leftover auto-drafts, trashed posts and trashed or spam comments, and a button to remove them all permanently after confirmation.
Block Comments Posted Without Visiting Your Site
Rejects comment submissions that do not come from a page on your own site, which stops bots that post directly to wp-comments-post.php.
Block Contact Form 7 Messages Containing Spam Words
Marks Contact Form 7 submissions as spam when any field contains a word or phrase from your block list, such as SEO offers or crypto pitches.
Block Disposable Email Addresses on Registration
Rejects registrations from throwaway email services, which are a common source of fake and spam accounts.
Block Disposable Emails in Mailchimp for WP Forms
Refuses newsletter signups from throwaway email domains in Mailchimp for WordPress forms, keeping your audience clean and your Mailchimp bill lower.
Block Fluent Forms Messages Containing Spam Words
Stops Fluent Forms submissions when any text field contains a word or phrase from your block list, such as SEO offers or crypto pitches.
Block IP Addresses From Contact Form 7
Silently rejects Contact Form 7 submissions from IP addresses or ranges you list, such as a persistent spammer, while the rest of the site stays open to them.
Block IP Addresses From Fluent Forms
Stops Fluent Forms submissions from IP addresses or ranges you list, such as a persistent spammer, while they can still read the site.
Block IP Addresses From Gravity Forms
Stops Gravity Forms submissions from IP addresses or ranges you list and marks them as spam, without blocking those visitors from reading the site.
Block IP Addresses From WPForms
Rejects WPForms submissions from IP addresses or ranges you list, such as a persistent spammer, while they can still read the site.
Block IP Addresses and Ranges
Denies access to the whole site for the IP addresses and IPv4 ranges you list, for example a persistent spammer or attacker.
Block Links in Contact Form 7 Messages
Shows an error when a message field contains more web links than you allow. Most contact form spam exists to place links.
Block Links in Fluent Forms Messages
Shows an error when a Fluent Forms message field contains web links, which removes most link spam without a captcha.
Block Links in Gravity Forms Text Fields
Rejects Gravity Forms submissions that put web links in name, text or paragraph fields, which removes most link-spam without a captcha.
Block Links in WPForms Paragraph Fields
Shows an error when a WPForms paragraph text field contains web links, which stops most link spam without adding a captcha.
Block Spam Searches
Answers search requests that contain links, markup, very long strings or words you block with a 404, stopping bots from filling search pages with spam.
Block WPForms Submissions Containing Spam Words
Quietly discards WPForms submissions when any field contains a word or phrase from your block list, the same way WPForms treats a filled honeypot.
BuddyPress: Limit the Length of Activity Updates
Shortens activity updates and comments longer than a set number of characters, which keeps the stream readable and discourages wall-of-text spam.
BuddyPress: Mark Activity With Blocked Words as Spam
Automatically marks activity updates and comments that contain words from your blocklist as spam, so they never appear in the stream.
BuddyPress: Strip Links From New Members' Activity Updates
Turns links into plain text in activity updates posted by members who joined recently, which takes the reward out of spam sign-ups.
Check Your Own Form Submissions With Akismet
Adds a wpide_akismet_is_spam() helper that sends a name, email and message from any custom form to Akismet and tells you whether it looks like spam, so your hand-built forms get the same protection as comments.