Comment Blacklist Updater
Update "Comment Blacklist" spam terms to manage spam in forms and comments
4.8(4 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 years agoAs of April 2026, Comment Blacklist Updater is a WordPress spam plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 10K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0.1+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 18% this week. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
4.8/54 reviews
1.0K+active installs
10K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
Updates the “Comment Blacklist” in Settings / Discussion with a list terms from a remote or local source. By default it get’s the data from Github (“wordpress-comment-blacklist“) by Grant Hutchinson) but you can also get them from any URL or from a local blacklist.txt file.
This plugin is an enhanced version of the plugin Comment Blacklist Manager. We decided to create this enhanced version of the plugin, because we wanted to be able to add blacklists without using filters and directly from the WordPress administration. You can still use a filter to modify the blacklist sources if that is more convienient for you. And we also wanted to have more information about the plugin in SETTINGS / DISCUSSION; for example when the blacklist was updated and when it will…
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Excellent solution, good alternative to Askimet
by Kakemphaton·1 year ago
This plugin is super useful, and even works on multisite (aka. WordPress Network) installations. It never failed me, and I keep installing it on more websites. Thank you! 🙂
Version 1.2.0 destroyed my site
by fuvavi·2 years ago·3 replies
This plugin use wp_die() detroy my site.
- This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by fuvavi.
An excellent alternative to Akismet
by Ashutosh·3 years ago
This plugin needs loads of love. It makes keeping my sites up-to-date with splorp’s blacklist completely hassle-free, and also allows adding custom blacklist phrases. Easily catches 99.9% spam in comments and CF7 when combined with Cloudflare bot detection and simple honeypot fields. I don’t miss Akismet!
Works great
by hmclean·4 years ago
Using this plugin to manage Grant Hutchinson’s Comment Blacklist for WordPress and in conjunction with the Gravity Forms and Gravity Wiz GP Blocklist, spam that was inundating my contact forms is virtually gone.
Download Trends
Today: 5Yesterday: 5This week: 26Period total: 1K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0.1+ requiredTested up to 6.3.8 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
93.2%
Other
6.8%
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Changelog
1.2.1 & 1.2.2 (25/sep/2023)
- Patched “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page” error on front-end.
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