Title: MP Spam Be Gone
Author: MikesPickz
Published: <strong>November 25, 2011</strong>
Last modified: January 3, 2021

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# MP Spam Be Gone

 By [MikesPickz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikespickz/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/mp-spam-be-gone.4.0.zip)

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## Description

MP Spam Be Gone is the simplest, most effective Spam blocker without difficult CAPTCHA
responses needed by the user. This plugin was inspired by some of the best Anti-
Spam plugins available on WordPress.

Inspirations:
 Spam Free WordPress by Todd Lahman, LLC Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin
by Andy Bailey Simple Trackback Validation with Topsy Blocker by Tobias Koelligan

This plugin has aspects from all of the above mentioned plugins to form the most
complete and dead simple Anti Spam plugin on WordPress. This plugin doesn’t write
anything to your database while preventing comment spam and trackback spam.

From Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin, I used the concept of having a checkbox display
to the user in order to prevent automated Spam. To me this is the best way (and 
least intrusive) to completely prevent automated spam from ever even being written
to the database in the spam que. It is physically impossible to get a false positive,
since you either checked the button or not. The flaw with this plugin is that it
does not work with Javascript disabled.

To combat that flaw, I use the copy and paste password fields from the Spam Free
WordPress plugin. These fields are in a `<noscript>` tag, and only appear if Javascript
is disabled. Unlike, the Spam Free WordPress plugin, these passwords are generated
on the fly and never stored in the database.

These plugins primarily stop comment spam. In order to stop trackback spam, I added
the IP address check, URL check, and Topsy check functions from Simple Trackback
Validation with Topsy Blocker. If a trackback is identified as spam because of the
IP address or Topsy, it is deleted and never written to the database. If a trackback
is identified as spam because of the URL, it is marked as spam and sent to the Spam
que. The reason that these are not automatically deleted, is because it is possible
that the referring page is using a shortlink and therefore the full URL would not
appear on the page in the first place.

When combined, this plugin will stop all automated spam and trackbacks.

It is intended to replace the above plugins.

You can’t find a plugin simpler than this – set it and forget it. No options = no
modifications to the database.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `mp-spam-be-gone` directory to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

### Do I need to do anything after activating this plugin?

Absolutely not. Set it and forget it (and it will be easy to forget, when the spam
stops).

### The checkbox is not appearing on my comment form?

If Version 3.0 does not correct this problem, please check your theme templates.
In the comments.php page, you should see a function – comment_form(). This function
was added with WordPress 3.0 and is required for my plugin to hook into the comment
form.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“MP Spam Be Gone” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ MikesPickz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikespickz/)

[Translate “MP Spam Be Gone” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/mp-spam-be-gone)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mp-spam-be-gone/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/mp-spam-be-gone/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/mp-spam-be-gone/)
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## Changelog

#### 4.0

 * Upgrade the honeypot fields to use two different methods of creating a honeypot
 * Switched from check the box to uncheck the box to prove you are not a bot

#### 3.0

 * Switches from using jQuery to display the checkbox, to a pure javascript method
   for even faster performance.

#### 2.0

 * Fixes the bug that caused the checkbox to not appear in the comment form

#### 1.0

 * Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **4.0**
 *  Last updated **5 years ago**
 *  Active installations **200+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.6.17**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mp-spam-be-gone/)
 * Tags
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   [spam](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/spam/)
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## Contributors

 *   [ MikesPickz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mikespickz/)

## Support

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