Title: En Spam
Author: hatul
Published: <strong>December 15, 2011</strong>
Last modified: November 30, 2025

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# En Spam

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

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/en-spam.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/en-spam/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/en-spam/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/en-spam/#installation)
 * [Development](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/en-spam/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/en-spam/)

## Description

“En Spam” blocks totally comments and form submissions of bots by cookies and javascript.
Bots can’t use cookies and javascript and therefore will not be able to comment.

Users that blocking cookies or Javascript can to comment after transfer in special
page.

We protect Elementor Pro and Contact Form 7 (cf7) forms and default comments of 
WordPress.

The plugin is transparent to your visitors, only bots will be blocked.

You can see how many spambots blocked in dashboard widget.

“En Spam” means “have not spam” in Hebrew.

## Installation

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

 * Or to install via Admin Panel.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6a5a154e3839a7cce3a8a9060ba7c8560cc264633bbdae3c952e78a5561dc31f?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Excellent spam block](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-spam-block/)󠁿

 [mstudioIL](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mstudioil/) November 11, 2024

Block lot of spam

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d42f0f1a61354f6afcae9ae40699b3c7e741ddf91f39c5ffacd0cdf0cee65e34?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Did not block any Spam attack](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/did-not-block-any-spam-attack/)󠁿

 [neotheghost](https://profiles.wordpress.org/neotheghost/) December 22, 2021 2 
replies

my contact form 7 forms still got filled out by bots and delivered spam.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b5fed0c70c77b2888efca6bb293a6ee265900d40206b571e3c0946e2b3d0f8a0?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Not so good](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-so-good-36/)󠁿

 [erazmasss](https://profiles.wordpress.org/erazmasss/) March 13, 2018 1 reply

It blocks some spam, but not very well.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/882621eef186a6359e16fe672549a75ce6de812a20ec66677777e9a84e466e98?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Best spam protection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-spam-protection-3/)󠁿

 [nokes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nokes/) January 15, 2018

The plugin protects my blog from spam for more than five years! I deactivated the
plugin for testing. Within two days I had 10 spam comments again.

 [ Read all 6 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/en-spam/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

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

[Translate “En Spam” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/en-spam)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/en-spam/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/en-spam/), or subscribe to
the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/en-spam/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/en-spam/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1

 * Refactored plugin code into a PHP class for better structure and maintainability.
 * Fix error in Elementor Pro.

#### 1.0

 * Add support to Elementor form and contact form 7 (cf7)

#### 0.7.2

 * Add support to old PHP versions

#### 0.7.1

 * Add widget with block counter to the dashboard

#### 0.7

 * Move JS to en-spam.js
 * Improve the code
 * Fix encoding bug

#### 0.6

 * Fix Adding slashs to specific characters

#### 0.5

 * Disable language filtering
 * Add transfer page for blocked commenters

#### 0.2

 * First Stable Version

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **5 months ago**
 *  Active installations **600+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.9.4**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/en-spam/)
 * Tags
 * [anti-spam](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/anti-spam/)[block spam](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/block-spam/)
   [bot](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/bot/)[comment](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/comment/)
   [spam](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/spam/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://xho.wordpress.org/plugins/en-spam/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.1 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  5 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/en-spam/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/en-spam/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  1 3-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/en-spam/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/en-spam/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/en-spam/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/en-spam/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/en-spam/reviews/)

## Contributors

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

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/en-spam/)

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