Advanced antispam for comments, registrations & contact forms. No CAPTCHA, plus email validation and honeypot. We catch spam others miss!
| Last updated | October 29, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 4.7 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.2 or newer |
| First published | May 18, 2012 |
| Support, last two months | 62 of 64 threads resolved (97%) |
4.8 / 5 from 3,220 reviews
| 5 stars | 2,975 |
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| 4 stars | 40 |
| 3 stars | 20 |
| 2 stars | 26 |
| 1 star | 159 |
The Anti-Spam plugin is trusted by over 200,000 websites and powered by a global spam detection network. CleanTalk “eats” spam before it reaches your website. By using cloud-based, API-driven analysis and shared spam intelligence, it provides more advanced protection than local, standalone plugins that don’t use a cloud API — helping catch spam they may miss.
🛡️ Anti-Spam Protection for your entire WordPress site
✨ More Than Just Anti-Spam
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Yes, CleanTalk stops spam in contact forms, registration forms, comments, and other forms on your website. It uses a combination of algorithms and a cloud-based database to identify and block spam submissions in real-time.
Yes, CleanTalk protects WooCommerce from fake orders and spam registrations. It checks all incoming orders and registrations against its anti-spam database and algorithms to ensure that only legitimate users can place orders or register on your site.
CleanTalk protects all WordPress forms, including but not limited to:
* Comments
* Registration forms
* Contact forms
* Sign-up forms
* Search forms
* Subscription forms
Spammers want to get backlinks from your site to improve their site’s PageRank or redirect your visitors to malicious sites.This level of spam can damage your reputation with readers and commentators if you fail to tackle it. It is not uncommon for some WordPress websites to receive hundreds or even thousands of comments every week.
Yes, it is. The plugin doesn’t block mobile visitors as well as desktop website visitors. It uses several independent anti-spam tests to decrease the number of false outcomes and to have as low false-positive rate as possible. Multiple anti-spam tests help to avoid false/positive blocks for real website visitors even if one of the tests failed.
Please use the email [email protected] for comments, contacts or signups to see how the anti-spam protection works. Also, you can see the logs for the last 7 days in the Dashboard or look at the folder “Spam” for banned comments.
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Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.
