Title: Honeypot Comments Author: gh0stpr3ss Published: June 11, 2014 Last modified: June 17, 2014 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/honeypot-comments.svg) # Honeypot Comments By [gh0stpr3ss](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gh0stpr3ss/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/honeypot-comments.1.1.0.zip) * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/honeypot-comments/#description) * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/honeypot-comments/#reviews) * [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/honeypot-comments/#installation) * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/honeypot-comments/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/honeypot-comments/) ## Description No more need for captchas, making your readers jump through hoops in order to comment. Instead, activate this plugin and let a simple hidden honeypot input field catch spam bots, which will fill out all fields in the form (even our hidden honeypot field). If that honeypot field isn’t empty, the comment won’t process, effectively nuking most spam comments. I also made sure that the **id** of the field is utilizing a random string of letters and numbers every time the page is loaded (ie: _34rscsDW37g8gf_) so that spam bots can’t target a specific id name in order to bypass it, making it harder for the bots to win. Installation is dead simple, just activate the plugin and you’re done. No other steps required on your end, the plugin handles everything. ### Additional info The basic structure of this plugin was cloned from the [WordPress-Plugin-Boilerplate](https://github.com/tommcfarlin/WordPress-Plugin-Boilerplate) project. This plugin supports the [GitHub Updater](https://github.com/afragen/github-updater) plugin, so if you install that, this plugin becomes automatically updateable direct from GitHub. Any submission to WP.org repo will make this redundant. ## Installation 1. Uzip the `honeypot-comments.zip` folder. 2. Upload the `honeypot-comments` folder to your `/wp-content/plugins` directory. 3. In your WordPress dashboard, head over to the _Plugins_ section. 4. Activate _Honeypot Comments_. ## FAQ Why was this plugin created? Because I hate captchas and I believe there is an easier way to tackle the spam comment issue with WordPress blogs. What is the “honeypot” method? This plugin adds a hidden input field into the WordPress comment section for your blog posts which is hidden to humans viewing the page. The spambots, however, see it and add info to it and get tripped up because the plugin will stop any comment that has the honeypot field filled in. This will not stop all spammers, but will catch a lot of the bots that are written to fill out forms automatically since they’ll be filling out the honeypot field that this plugin adds in. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7f5bb7e454f414cc6de721a65f83ba93fad3282242495f4f215f78c57e391dce? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Not effective](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-effective/)󠁿 [RoamingPro](https://profiles.wordpress.org/roamingpro/) September 3, 2016 I’ve been interested in the Honey Pot concept for eliminating SPAM comments. I didn’t really delve into the code of this plugin to see what it was trying to do, all I know is that it is totally ineffective on several of my sites. [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/honeypot-comments/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Honeypot Comments” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ gh0stpr3ss ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gh0stpr3ss/) [Translate “Honeypot Comments” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/honeypot-comments) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/honeypot-comments/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/honeypot-comments/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/honeypot-comments/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/honeypot-comments/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.1.0 * Changed the way the ID for the input field was created, as it was [pointed out to me](http://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/283y6p/created_my_first_plugin_honeypot_comments_and/ci77rmf) that a sophisticated bot could figure out how I originally had the ID generated since it had _honeypot-comments-_ in the ID name. #### 1.0.0 * Initial release ## Meta * Version **1.1.0** * Last updated **12 years ago** * Active installations **70+** * WordPress version ** 3.5.1 or higher ** * Tested up to **3.9.40** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/honeypot-comments/) * Tags * [comments](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comments/)[spam](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/spam/) * [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/honeypot-comments/advanced/) ## Ratings 2.3 out of 5 stars. * [ 1 5-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/honeypot-comments/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/honeypot-comments/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/honeypot-comments/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 1 2-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/honeypot-comments/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 2 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/honeypot-comments/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/honeypot-comments/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/honeypot-comments/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ gh0stpr3ss ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gh0stpr3ss/) ## Support Got something to say? 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