Stop Comment Spam treats any comment by predefined rules to stop spam. It is supposed to be used as additional measure for any other antispam tool esp …
As of April 2026, Stop Comment Spam is a WordPress spam plugin with 400 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.6.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
If you use Akismet, you are likely happy how it recognizes spam, but probably it still bothers you that you have to check recognized spam and reject it. If your blog is target of heavy spam, you may get large number of spams a day, and although Akismet prevents spam to show up on your blog, you still have to administer (delete) it.
Stop Comment Spam jumps in that place. It is very likely that you may identify large amount of spam by very precise keywords, and if spam contains specified keyword, it may undoubtedly be considered as 100% spam and rejected without need for Akismet or you to interfere.
For instance, my blog is overwhelmed by, what we call Russian spam. Thing is that my blog uses Cyrillic alphabet, and Russian spammers recognize that, so they pay more attention to spam it with…
| WordPress | 2.6.1+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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