FV Antispam
FV Antispam is a powerful and simple antispam plugin. It moves any spambot comments directly to trash and allows Akismet to just deal with human spam.
3.7(3 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, FV Antispam is a WordPress spam plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3.7/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 61K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Downloads are up 22% this week. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
3.7/53 reviews
1.0K+active installs
61K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
FV Antispam is a powerful and simple antispam plugin. FV Antispam moves any spambot (machine written) comments directly to the trash and allows Akismet to just deal with human spam.
What makes FV Antispam better than any other solution is the very low CPU load. FV Antispam will not burden your hosting or slow down your server. Other effective antispam plugins may get your hosting cancelled. Really. It happened to us, that’s why we wrote FV Antispam.
The Problem
Our studies on our own sites have shown that for every 50 human spam comments a popular weblog will have up to 10,000 machine generated spam. With FV Antispam, Akismet finally becomes a usefull tool again allowing you to browse your spam folder and pull out any Akismet false positives. If you use just Akismet, bots fill your…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Very efficient!
by Abdelhadi Touil·7 years ago
This is a great and very efficient plugin! I always use it for years and it always does its job perfectly!
Big thanks to the developer for such helpful plugin.
Great plugin
by Abdelhadi Touil·12 years ago
I always use it, and it’s always efficient. Thank you very much!
FV Antispam broke my site's logo
by galeroy·12 years ago·2 replies
When I installed FV Antispam, my website’s .svg logo disappeared and the backup logo in .png format was displayed instead.
I’m not sure if FV Antispam interfered with modernizr in some way or what it might have been.
As soon as I deactivated FV Antispam, my .svg logo re-appeared.
As a result of this problem, I unfortunately had to deactivate this plugin and uninstall it.
nice interface.
by ily·12 years ago
Will see if it works. Not broken, though.
Download Trends
Today: 11Yesterday: 14This week: 90Period total: 4K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.8
45.1%
v2.4
28.1%
v2.7
25.6%
v2.5
1.2%
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Changelog
2.8
- Security: Avoid CSRF on the wp-login.php registration page
- WordPress 6.8 fix for the “required” attribute on comment textarea
Contributors
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