No spam, no scams, just seamless experiences with Zero Spam for WordPress - the shield your site deserves.
As of April 2026, Zero Spam for WordPress is a WordPress spam plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.1/5 rating from 142 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.4M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.9+ and PHP 8.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 8% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection.
Protect your WordPress website seamlessly with Zero Spam for WordPress! Eliminate spam and malicious attacks that can harm your online presence. Our plugin integrates effortlessly with Zero Spam, Stop Forum Spam, and Project Honeypot to offer a strong defense system.
Rest easy knowing that we utilize multiple detection methods to swiftly identify and halt potential threats. Whether it’s pesky spam, devious trolls, or cunning hackers, Zero Spam is here to protect your website.
Fighting SPAM is an ongoing struggle – sometime we’re ‘winning’, and sometime we’re not.
I’ve been using the public version of Zero Spam for a few years. It’s not always been smooth, but when it comes to the moving goal post of fighting spam I don’t expect it to be. I have found Ben to be receptive and supportive when issues have been encountered. I don’t always need the extent of options provided by the plugin, however I appreciate it’s capacity to ramp up protection in situations when it’s needed. It’s not necessarily going to be the right solution for everyone – what solution ever is – and when it comes to protecting a site and its users from bad actors, it may be part of a wider tool-set. It’s up to website managers to understand what their needs are, and become proficient in configuring the tools, such as Zero Spam, available to them.
Is it the best? How could one honestly tell? It’s the one I choose, and have continued to use.
I use it for dozens of websites, , very usefull, I love it!
Impossible to find where to block one specific IP, everything is just spam and sales and license and subscription, we just needed to block one specific problem IP and this plugin made that impossible.
I am using this plugin on all of my sites and it is really helpful in reducing spam. It has a very broad range of functionality and integrates well.
This plugin also has good support. Great work
Ham handed marketing team hijacks dashboard with no way out but to buy. There are many alternatives to this functionality that do not do this. A dashboard is not a billboard and just how many times do you think you can browbeat a prospect before they adjudge you tacky and counterproductive?
Any marketer worth a bag of salt could rattle off dozens better, more effective ways to convert.
We cannot commend any plugin that hijacks your workspace as these folks do.
| WordPress | 6.9+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 8.2+ required |
type and module in settings registration and rendering (#394)Settings::is_valid_setting() validation method to enforce required-key contract on zerospam_settings filter — invalid settings are logged in debug modesettings_field() now applies wp_parse_args() defaults, preventing undefined key warnings for optional field attributessection key now default to general instead of triggering warnings…and 14 more changes
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