Rating: 1 star
Never use this plugin. It’s an ineffective plugin. The irony is that even if you cancel your subscription after a while, your registered credit card continues to be charged. There is no access to customer service, no subscription cancellation. In other words, it is quite difficult to ensure your security against an add-on whose job is security. Stay away.
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We were getting around 10 spam comments per day and installed this to try and help, but it doesn’t seem to do much of anything after letting it run for a couple of weeks. Other reviews on the plugin mention that has been abandoned, so it looks like it might be completely non-functional these days.
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We love the plugin as it saved us from SPAM registrations via Ultimate Members. We also bought extensions for mailpoet and geo-blocking. All worked great, but unfortunately the plugin got abandoned half year ago. Plugin is no longer maintained and the developer’s website is down. Soooo sad!
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Looks like this was a useful plugin. However, now it is abandoned, developer never answered any questions in the support forum.
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Was a great plugin a year ago or so and even purchased an addon.
But then the developer stopped maintenance on it and I was getting many issues on my site and error log/ debug log complaints, critical issues.
Deleted it thankfully before worse things happen like others report here.
What a shame, started so promisingly, had good stats too.
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Had a nightmare after installing this plugin – could not login (Login to WP Dashboard kept failing!!!). Had to reinstall WP / restore the site from a previous Backup in order to regain access to my website… This is the FIRST time I ever gave such a negative review to a plugin.
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Super easy to install and setup. Works like a champ! Thank you for all your had work =)
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Works great!
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Prevented me from getting to my Dashboard.
Had to Deactivate through Plesk then all ok.
Uninstalled.
Rating: 1 star
At first this seems like a great tool.
Add-ons are perfectly affordable, so I purchased a couple of add-ons to start with.
Later on you start realising that it doesn’t actually work that well. Can’t trust the plugin. It lets through some comments, but doesn’t let others. Gravity forms add-on doesn’t seem to work.
Hard to troubleshoot the issue as all I get is an ‘Invalid Token’ message, nothing else.
Support is non-existent, messages go unanswered.
It is just really frustrating.
Nice try, it has potential, but for now it’s just an amateur project that needs a lot of work, but most importantly someone competent to run it.
Uninstalled, trashed and moved on to something else.
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This plugin works very well and has thwarted many attacks targeting my blog.
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I like this plugin a lot, but lately have noticed that countries can be mis-identified. Had a Texas IP identified as New Zealand, and a Michigan IP identified as Canada. In both cases, I’d blocked all countries but USA, so the website owners were unable to log in until I discovered the discrepancy and whitelisted them.
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i decided to give this plug in a very bad review, we, a team of nearly 24 people decided to watch any unusual activity on our site after installing this plug in for more than 30 days. nothing comes free my friends.. and this plug in is no exception. we saw live how a set of activities were performed in our site.. and we were going to make a pretty sweet donation.. but after seeing this activity.. for get it..!~~
if it weren’t for that deleteme file you guys installed and then deleted on our site yoy guys would be rich by now ~~
Rating: 5 stars
I have removed Akismet as it was redundant.
I only use this plugin for the Comments Form – and now usually receive ZERO spam comments.
I use the stock Mailchimp and Mailerlite sign-in forms for RSS Newsletter, but get no spam there anyway.
After testing and confirming the effectiveness and accuracy of the plugin, I now set log to keep zero data on spam comments.
I 100% recommend it for any site.
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This is a great tool. At least from the internal reports it shows hundreds attacks stops: brutforcing and spam registrations.
It doesn’t stop 100% of spam sign ups but close to it.
It blocks by IP automatically, no moderation required. Allow to block users coming from anonymous proxy IPs, prevents user enumeration.
Author: what is missing is to see a list of currently automatically blocked attackers. Please add!
You can only see the manual black list of IPs.
So it’s a great security tool, may be not ultimate but very useful.
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OMG this has been a lifesaver. Installed this plugin after we got spammed with over 1000 newsletter signups. This with the ninja forms extension has been a lifesaver. Those sneaky little suckers have been stopped!!
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I started get spammed HARD this morning with comment spam coming in every 10-15 minutes on my site. I can’t spend all day moderating comments so I started shopping for a plugin that would block automatically.
This plugin blocks them and you never have to even see it. It does report them on the reports tab, which is handy to make sure it is working properly.
And in the last hour it has blocked 5-6 spam comments and didn’t touch the legitimate comment.
Thank you!
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Blocks all spam, works perfectly!
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The plugin integrated seamlessly with Flatsome, WooCommerce, Mailchimp for WP and did just what was promised by the author. Kudos to the author!
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I installed this plugin and the premium Contact Form 7 extension to stop the high volume of contact form spam that we were receiving. We already had a honeypot plugin which had reduced spam a little, but not enough.
After a few days with the difference is astonishing. Legitimate contact forms submissions are getting through but the spam has stopped entirely.
We already have a security plugin so I’ve disabled all those extra options. So long as it doesn’t start causing conflicts then I’m happy.
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Does not stop 100% of spam, but rather close to that.
Does what it says on the box.
Been using for a few months and very happy.
Good stuff.
Rating: 5 stars
Working perfectly for me on WordPress 5.4
Donated.
Thank you.
Mark.
Rating: 5 stars
Plugin works great so far; easy to use and configure. Support responds really fast and reliable. Thx!
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I have tried many spam plugin but no one solved ALL the problems except WP Bruiser. Great plugin that I can strongly recommend!
Jonas
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This simply works. And extensions are not too expensive and worth the price.
Thank you ??
Rating: 5 stars
I have been using this plugin for many years across dozens of sites and it has worked perfectly with every version of WordPress I am using at the time. It is mind blowing seeing the report of how many attempts there are daily of bots trying to penetrate your sites but WP Bruiser is there to defend your site from hack attacks. Advice: Always use a very strong password on your admin users anyhow, that should go without saying!
I also recommend the (paid but very well priced) Contact Form 7 extension if you’re using that (awesome) Form and Country Blocking to block attempts from countries you don’t need accessing your site.
The author Mihai keeps it updated with every WordPress release and he also responds promptly to questions when asked.
Well done Mihai!
Cheers, Vic
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I stumbled on this plugin while searching for captcha plugins, and I am glad I did. It is simple to install and configure, starts working right away, and it simply works. Thank you! I will install it on a few more sites I manage and recommend it to others. Good work, good plugin.
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Since installing the buddypress and woocommerce extensions all spam account registrations completely STOPPED. I had been getting over 500 per day so you have no idea how much of a relief this is. I even tried (very expensive) Sucuri and this works WAY better – the only thing that actually works of all the many plugins and software I tried. Fantastic product – THANK YOU!!!
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I added a Form 7 Contact us form and in about 15 minutes I was getting spam messages. So I quickly searched a highly rated plugin solution and installed WPBruiser and the Form 7 addon. No more spam!
The developer was very helpful with the questions I had and got me going in no time.
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I needed something to get rid of the huge amount of spam I was getting through Jetpack Contact form. And this plugin saved the day without having to add captcha!
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