Squelch Unspam
Unspam makes it harder for spammers to automatedly send spam to your blog by changing the names of the fields in the comment forms.
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·50 active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Squelch Unspam is a WordPress spam plugin with 50 active installations and a 3/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 3.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
3/51 reviews
50active installs
3.9K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
Unspam by Squelch Design is the simplest WordPress anti-spam plugin you can find for reducing your comment spam problem. Once installed there’s nothing
to configure, and nothing changes to your visitors: No captcha or silly games. Once installed
the plugin will simply randomize the names of the fields in the comments form on your blog and reject comments that are sent to the
standard WordPress field names, or where bots have blindly submitted data to the honeypot fields.
What this means for spammers is that they have to do quite a lot more work to send spam to your website. It may also make sending
spam to your website unreliable as changes to your theme may upset their spam submission tools. Or they may have to resort to using
humans to send spam to your website (not much I can do…
Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.5.1
- Tested up to WordPress version 5.5
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