Three Strikes and You're Out
Closes comments across the board to IP addresses that are behaving badly.
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·10 active installs·Updated 16 years agoAs of April 2026, Three Strikes and You're Out is a WordPress spam plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2009. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
0/5Rating
10active installs
1.7K+total downloads
17 yearssince 2009
Overview
Three Strikes and You’re Out examines your Bad Behavior logs and your WordPress
spam queue and closes comments on all blog entries across the board to IP
addresses that have reported three or more attempts at mischief over the past
seven days.
It also has an additional logging feature and an API that allows other plugins
to register certain events as being mischievous.
Configuration
By default, Three Strikes and You’re Out closes comments right across the board
on your blog to any IP address that has attempted any mischief three or more
times in the past week. You can change these by editing the two defined
constants at the top of the plugin file, just below the copyright notice. There
are three such defines:
THREE_STRIKES_LIMITis the number of bad hits at which to block com…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.0+ requiredTested up to 2.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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