WordPress without doubt is the best blogging platform. If you running a multi authored blog, and you set your blog registration to open, there are chances you will be haunted by spammer and BOTS registering on your blog which is very annoying.
My Ordeal
As a newbie to WordPress, i had challenges combating with spam registration due to the fact that i set registration open.
I had to go through the stress of deleting 500+ spam users everyday.
If you’re experiencing similar situation, below are Top Six(6) WordPress plugins to help stop spam registration
- ProfilePress
This plugin has a feature that let you modify the registration link of your WordPress website. This will result in greatly reduced spam registrations.The default registration link is
"wp-login.php?action=register"and is heavily targeted by spam- bots.This plugin create a custom registration form for you and redirect the default registration page to the custom page.
- Wanguard
This plugin is very good at stoping spam registration and making your database clean. Upon user registration, WangGuard will check against a centralized database if the user is a Splogger or spam-user.If WangGuard determines that the user is a Splogger, WangGuard won’t allow the registration on your site. No need to put any kind of filter in the user registration page (eg captcha).
This is the greatness of WangGuard, not hinder users who wish to register on your site with Captchas and other things that just makes the registration being more difficult and in many cases do not stop Sploggers. But in case you want to put something WangGuard gives you the ability to add one or more security questions from the plugin’s administration page, which will be randomly displayed on the registration page.
- Stop Spammers Registration Plugin
This plugin uses 15 different strategies to block spammers. Eliminates 99% of spam registrations and comments.Checks all attempts to leave spam against StopForumSpam.com, ProjectHoneypot, BotScout, DNSBL lists such as Spamhaus.org, known spammer hosts such as Ubiquity Servers, disposable email addresses, very long email address and names, and HTTP_ACCEPT header.
Checks for robots that hit your site too fast, and puts a fake comment and login screen where only spammers will find them.
- No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA
A simple plugin for adding the effective anti-spam No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA by Google to WordPress login, registration and comment system as well as BuddyPress registration form to protect against spam.
It takes just a few seconds to solve spam registration. - Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin
This plugin will add a client side generated checkbox to your comment form asking users to confirm that they are not a spammer.It is a lot less trouble to click a box than it is to enter a captcha and because the box is genereated via client side javascript that bots cannot see, it should stop 99% of all automated spam bots.