7 Wordpress Plugins To Stop Spam Registrations On Your Wordpress Site

When you are running a multi author blog or a blog that offers guest post and if you have enabled the user registration in that case spam registrations are big pain to you. You can see a lot number of spam registrations on single day on your blog and its feel really very annoying.

When I started my wordpress blog(not this one) I have seen many of spam registrations on a single day on my blog(10 to 20 spam registrations) because I didn't modify the user registration form not even try captcha plugin to stop the spam registrations. Then finally I decided to search some of best plugins to stop the spam registrations on my blog and here is the list given below of those plugins.

Wordpress Plugins To Spam Registrations

1. Stop Spammer Registrations Plugin

• Have strategies to block spammers.
• Eliminates 99% of spam registrations and spam comments.
• Checks user's registration info at the databases of StopForumSpam, Project Honeypot and BotScout .
• Checks the ip address, username and email address and if it matches it stops the registration.

2. Wangguard

• Supported by WordPress, WordPress MU, BuddyPress and bbPress.
• Checks registered users against known Spammers or Sploggers on the WangGuard database.
• Free for personal use.
• No need of captcha.

3. Confident Captcha

• Image-Based Captcha
• Tough for bots and easy for people.
• No typing is needed.
• Take less time to solve (easy to use for people).

4. Register Plus Redux

• It has wide range of  features such as :
• Can replace WordPress logo with your own site logo on login/registration panel.
• You can use custom css to design login/registration panel.
• Can add custom fields.
• It allow users to set their password (with optional password strength meter).

5. No Disposable Email

• Prevent from registering with a disposable email addresses.

6. Sabre

• Sabre - Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine
• Inclusion of a captcha and can change complexity of captcha.
• Inclusion of a math test and can change complexity of math test.
• Registration blocked if Javascript is unsupported by the browser.
• Registration blocked if visitor's IP address is found on ban lists.
• For more details clikc here.

7. SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

• Can configure from Admin panel
• Allows Trackbacks and Pingbacks.
• User have to type captcha code to post a comment.
• Compatible with Akismet, WP, WPMU, and BuddyPress.
• For more details click here.

From the Editor's Desk ::

Install these plugins and live blogging spam free. If you have some other plugins please mention in the comments and let me know which plugins do you use to stop spam registrations on your blog. If you like this post don't forget to share it on your favorite social networks.