Antispam Bee

Antispam Bee, a free anti-spam plugin that can be obtained in the WordPress plugin repository, is one of our favorites. Along with notifications when spam is being discovered via an email or dashboard visual, it provides several settings that help keep spammers at bay.

At this time, the plugin has received a 4.7-star rating and has been downloaded and installed more than 200,000 times. Sadly, it is incompatible with the Disqus, Jetpack, and Ajax commenting systems, but everything else works fine.

Features

• Comments from reliable and consistent commenters will be automatically allowed under the heading “Trust authorized commenters.” The plugin remembers these commentators and approves their comments straight away because they post legitimate comments and spark conversation.
• You can approve comments from users who publish legitimate comments and have a certain Gravatar image by selecting the option to “Trust commenters with a Gravatar.” Comparable to “Trust authorized commentators,” however the plugin keeps track of the Gravatar of reliable commenters.
• The phrase “Consider the comment time” will take it into account. The plugin’s creator does not advise utilizing this setting on blogs or websites that employ page caching.
• You can block and whitelist particular national ISO codes using the “Block or allow comments from specific countries” feature.
• To find fresh spam comments, “Look in the local spam database” searches the database of your website for existing spam content.