Defeat Automated Spambot Comments That Gets Collected In WordPress Spams Folder

Akismet is best spam detector plugin but all comments made by spam bots end up in your WordPress Spams folder. This tutorial is about a light weight WordPress plugin that you can easily use with Akismet and increase a step for spambots when posting comments in your WordPress blog.

Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin is a free WordPress plugin. After activation this plugin simply adds a client side generated checkbox in WordPress comment forms. This check box asks your commenters to confirm that they are not a spambot, hence they easily check it which is a much less trouble than filling wired captcha. Check box is genereated via client side javascript that is invisible for bots and it should stop 99% of all automated spam bot comments. The plugin provides you with some customization options that you can visit from its admin area settings page.

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