Rating: 5 stars
Simple and effective extension
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The plugin seems to be highly effective against combating spam comments, registrations etc.
Support team is very fast in replying to support requests, going above and beyond to develop solutions for customers.
I recommend.
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Has been my go-to anti-spam plugin for quite some time. I’ve used many of the techniques individually on many sites. Having them rolled up into a single plugin is just amazing!
All 1-star reviews that say it doesn’t work, don’t have it setup/integrated properly, which can take a little bit of effort. There is no magical anti-spam protection that instantly happens when you activate it. BUT, once you do implement a few of the techniques this plugin provides, spam becomes a thing of the past.
Prior to v5.2.15, would have been an easy 5-star rating. Because of v5.2.15, I regrettably have to give it 1-star review. Plugin author: This is an ANTI-SPAM plugin, NOT a Ukraine support plugin. If you want to show your support for Ukraine, make a plugin for it. DON’T ruin a useful plugin by injecting unrelated political beliefs it into it. Blocking spam is blocking spam. Supporting Ukraine is supporting Ukraine. Mix them together and you just end up ruining both.
v5.2.15
feat(ukraine): we’ll no longer provide protection for .ru, .su, and .by domains & will display a banner of support for the ukrainian people on those sites – united with ukraine
Personal Note to the Plugin Author:
It’s your plugin, you can do what you want, but here’s an important question: Is this plugin for YOU (the plugin author) to broadcast political beliefs, or for US (the plugin users) to block spam? Between those two, which one is more important? Pick one and go with it. If you pick personal political beliefs over plugin user functionality then it’s only a matter of time until someone takes all of your hard work on this plugin, removes your political beliefs, releases it as a new plugin, and surpasses you in # of installs, making this plugin obsolete. You will be your own undoing. Would hate to see that happen to an otherwise WONDERFUL & AMAZING plugin!
Remove personal politics from this plugin, and my review will change to the 5-star review that it deserves.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
I used this plugin to reduce spam and it works like a treat. Highly recommended.
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This plugin undergoes a UI change every few months, and continues to make the same mistake – it doesn’t remember what the previous settings were on ‘big’ updates.
Which is a huge dev failure. If you have it on multiple sites, suddenly your contact form is getting spammed to high heaven again. Then you have to go back in, and redo the settings.
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Plugin keeps telling me to upgrade even after I dismiss the notice.
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This is a must-install plugin.
Didn’t take a hit on performance and the obnoxious barrage of spam has STOPPED! So much frustration out of my life since install.
Rating: 2 stars
Since there is a paying version, the free version let through significantly more spam, in my opinion.
The spammy banner urging you to pay, has a dismiss link. It does not dismiss the banner, but takes you to the settings page to update to a paid account.
The banner consistently returns, nagging you into paid account.
Are there alternatives?
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I was getting hundreds of spam registration, comments all day long, and fraudulent credit card submissions in WPGive. I installed Zero Spam and it came to a stop! LOVE this plugin!
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Firstly, I get it. Plugin developers want to get paid, and where they have a premium add-on it’s reasonable to make sure that website owners can be prompted to upgrade.
Sadly this plugin has gone down the route of adding an overly threatening sales message that is not dismissible.
My website is not at risk if I don’t subscribe to your service. You’re providing an optional layer of security. If I click “dismiss” I expect the notice to go away, not to be take away from *my* dashboard to your sales page.
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Add their ads to your site. Handles 2 out of 5 points.
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Starting from version 5.2.15 ( /zero-spam/tags/5.2.15/modules/class-ukraine.php ), this plugin contains malicious code driven by political motives.
It’s a bad idea to drag the WordPress community into this conflict.
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The code contains malicious code associated with hacking
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For some patriotic reasons creators of this plugin added unwelcome feature in the last version.
If installed on a website that has .RU, .BY or .SU in URL, plugin will display in aside element in footer the explicitly encoded banner “We stand with Ukraine”, that may not be what you want to be displayed on your website. (maybe it also does something else in the background, who knows).
The plugin will not work as a spam protection on such sites. The malicious code that disables functionality and defaces innocent sites is in class-ukraine.php
It adds this without notice, and it will also ruin Megamenu widget settings.
Guys, you lost your ways.
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But adds politic banner to site
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I installed this, but keeps trying to sell me a subscription. Utterly worthless. Didn’t stop a single spam message. Thought I’d give their paid service a go, $9/month isn’t too much to try. Unfortunately, the advertised price is no the list price for their pay service. Doesn’t matter how much it is, but the manner that they are trying to get a sale, by dishonesty.
I queried them about it and got a rude response.
So worthless plugin that tries to flog a pay service that advertises an incorrect price.
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I’ve used zero-spam for years with only minor issues until recently. Now they’ve added their own political messaging on your sites based only on your TLD. It sure would be nice if the developers of this “spam” solution understood how this looks from the outside. I get that you feel you need to get involved, but all you’ve done is guarantee that your code can never be trusted again. What agenda will you choose next to spam across our sites?
]]>Rating: 5 stars
If you hate spam, you’ll love this plugin, period.
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We refuse to use the plugin – without permission they pop the policy. Why is she to us? We have a religious site.
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Every day both our employees and UpTimeRobot report to me that they are being blocked. UpTimeRobot seems to always be fixed in 59 minutes.
We have a dedicated IP address at the office, and I check those blacklists this plugin interacts with and our IP address is never there. No surprise, because we do not actually do anything at our office. No hosting. No emails. Our connection to the internet is strictly to interact with outside services.
We do use CloudFlare, and I am sure that complicates things, so I do not fault the plugin and probably not the IP blacklist maintainers. But for those of you using CloudFlare and wanting to use the part of this plugin that can block by IP, be prepared to have your site inaccessible.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Amazing support. I asked about a possible feature for a future release, 2 hours later he released an update with the features implemented. No idea how he did it so fast.
Would rate 6 out of 5 stars if I could!
Rating: 5 stars
I personally do not use all of the functionality that this plugin offers. Instead I currently only use its functionality relating to Contact Form 7 and the David Walsh method to secure contact forms. I’m very happy with the plugin offering that functionality for free and am to date finding it an effective light-weight method of securing contact forms (infinitely more lightweight than recaptcha).
Additionally I’ve found the plugin author to be very responsive. After bringing up that a small JS file related to the David Walsh method was being loaded site-wide by the plugin, Ben addressed this by rapidly releasing an update which ensures it only gets loaded where needed.
– Jonas
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I worked very well even without paid license.
spam submissions are reduced dramatically.
Also it works with most of popular contact form plugins seamlessly.
Rating: 1 star
Would be a zero star review if I could. I was reading manga on a site when this piece of shit AI blocked my ip address for no fucking reason.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Installed through the regular WordPress process. One button default configuration used. Instant success with zero spam getting through. I’m a small volume site, but I see 30 or more spams per day. Log is clear. Actually looking forward to seeing how the spam stats develop. It’s fun seeing the bad guys shut down!
Update: Stopping 30-70 spams per day on my little site. Thanks, Zero Spam!
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I couldn’t get send a message to a website because it listed me as spam and I do not send anything that could remotely be interpreted as spam and have never before had this happen. I do receive a lot
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I don’t appreciate being forced to uninstall your plugin to get rid of the nags you put in the dashboard. You don’t allow for dismissing these nags and you require other actions in order for the one to go away.
But then after I click to go to the settings page to set up the plugin, the nag returns. There was a time when WordPress rules required you to allow nags to be dismissed. It is a shame that rule seems to no longer be enforced.
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Please rename plugin’s name.. ??
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Thank you Ben for your work. After the last major release I started to receive a ton of spam comments on my website like if I will turn of the ZeroSpam plugin. I get about 40-70 spam comments a day but before the new update the plugin had been blocking 99% of those.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
It really can be this simple.
Just install it and it works.
You also could add additional features like ipstack and Google maps.
The Backend recently got a beautiful update and looks now way more modern. It would be nice if you could disable the social media news and the Menu should be on top of the Blocking-Log so that the actual Blocking-log has more space to the sides of the page.
Also the Info and the Blocking button in the log could be a bit bigger for mobile Users.
Why do you forward to the blocked Ip list after blocking an IP-Adress? I would prefer to keep on going through the activity log.