WP Captcha-Free

Description:

WP Captcha-Free blocks comment spam by using a combination of time-based hash (a.k.a. Time Based Tokens, TBT) and JavaScript (AJAX). When a comment is posted the plugin validates a hash based on time (and some other parameters). Comments posted via automated means will not have a hash or will have an expired hash and will be rejected. Unlike using a captcha, this does not place any burden on the commenter.

Additionally, WP Captcha-Free uses ajax to get the hash only when the form is submitted instead of adding it statically to the page (which is cached by caching plugins). This adds another layer of security and makes it compatible with caching plugins like WP-Cache.

Features:

  1. Blocks automated comment spam and ensures that your commenters are human.
  2. Works without inconveniencing visitors with CAPTCHAs, challenge questions, etc.
  3. The plugin requires no database access and adds almost zero overhead.
  4. The plugin works out of the box without any configuration or setup.
  5. Compatible with all cache plugins, including WP-Cache.
  6. Doesn’t require editing any .php files.

Installation:

Just download the .zip file and upload the file ‘captcha-free.php’ to your ‘/wp-content/plugins’ directory. Now login to the Wordpress administration area and activate it under the “Plugins” section. That’s it! WP Captcha-Free will start blocking comment spam behind the scenes.


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164 Responses to “WP Captcha-Free”

  1. 1
    dave Says:

    Ok cool deal

  2. 2
    off-it Says:

    Grabbed the plugin and testing it on a new site now. Using the latest version of WP. SHall give you a shout should i run across any problems.

    Regards
    Off-it

  3. 3
    Martin Says:

    I wonder how you can assume a result made by computer-generated computations (using JavaScript) ensures a comment is written by a humain being. All your plugin does is to ensure one uses a browser to post a comment. Say I develop a Firefox plugin to spam your blog. Your plugin won’t be able to stop it.

    Moreover, what happens if a visitor has deactivated JavaScript in his browser? What would happen if the user is behind a proxy server? I guess visitors won’t be able to comment in both cases…

  4. 4
    iDope Says:

    You are right about the first part. Yes, someone can use a browser to spam. But do spammers do that? Won’t it considerably slow them down? No plugin is foolproof. Spam and anti-spam tech evolves constantly. For *now* this works.

    Yes, it clearly does require JavaScript. But, about 94% users have JavaScript enabled as of Jan 2007 (source: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp). That number is likely more now if you notice the trend. For me its a choice between using a captcha and inconveniencing 100% of my visitors or <6%.

    No, proxies don’t matter (unless the proxy filters out JS).

    BTW, thanks for your comments. If you have any suggestions please do let me know.

  5. 5
    Dean Says:

    It looks like you got your idea and the name of your plugin from WP-SpamFree. Also you have copied most of the text in the bullet points of your description from that plugin as well-almost word for word. You need to be careful because that is a DMCA violation. With GPL you have to give attribution for code,but you can’t copy marketing text or descriptions.

  6. 6
    iDope Says:

    > It looks like you got your idea and the name
    > of your plugin from WP-SpamFree. Also you have
    > copied most of the text in the bullet points
    > of your description from that plugin as
    > well-almost word for word.

    Not true, in fact I first saw WP-SpamFree after I had completed the plugin and was writing a description (not very good at documentation, I was looking what other similar plugins had written). After reading WP-SpamFree’s feature list I couldn’t write mine another way since both plugins essentially offer the same advantages. But you are right, that’s a terrible thing to do in the age of DMCA (though I am not a US citizen :) ) and I’ll reword my feature list in the next update.

    The idea is not really the same either. My plugin uses time-based hash (generated on the server side) and JavaScript (AJAX) while WP-SpamFree uses JavaScript and cookies. If you look at the code I am sure you’ll find no similarities there either.

    Anyways, thanks for looking at my plugin and I hope you’ll still give it a try. Criticism (constructive or otherwise) is always welcome :) .

  7. 7
    zoz Says:

    Nice plugin :)

  8. 8
    Samuel Says:

    Hi!

    Your plugin is very promising, but it doesnt work together with Better Comments Manager.

    Could do you make your plugin compatible with it? (maybe make some check about if the user is logged, and if logged no need to make hash check).

  9. 9
    kakiyomi Says:

    oh thx 4 plugin

  10. 10
    Sandra Says:

    Hi there, I’d love to use your plugin but unfortunately it stopped all comments from comming in. Once the user clicks “submit comment” it says “please wait…” and nothing happens. The theme we are using is wp-magazine.com

    thanks!

  11. 11
    iDope Says:

    Hi Sandra,

    Thanks for letting me know. Can you enable the plugin on your blog for a little while so I can see what’s going on?

  12. 12
    Sandra Says:

    Hi,

    I had not uploaded the .php file right into the plugin directory. Ooops! IT works now and it’s a beauty! Thank you soooooo much!

  13. 13
    Stephen Joyce Says:

    Hi There,

    I installed the plugin and noticed that my comment spam levels dropped to zero. This is great! However, I tried to post a comment on one of my posts, in response to some elses comment, and noticed that the form would not sumbit. When I clicked on the “Post Comment” button, it turned into a “Please wait” and then just stopped. The comment never got posted. I tried several times with the same result. When I de-activated the plugin I could post comments again.

    Any idea what might be causing this? Anyone else experienced a similar issue?

    Thanks,
    Stephen

  14. 14
    iDope Says:

    Stephen,
    You may have uploaded the captcha-free.php file to a sub-directory of your plugins folder. Please upload captcha-free.php directly to /wp-content/plugins folder. Let me know if this works for you.

  15. 15
    Nick R Says:

    New to blogging and gutted to have spam comments – got my hopes up that I had some readers! When I found your plugin via Wordpress the hopes have gone up again. I will let you know if there are any issues. Thanks for your time and know how.

  16. 16
    Adrian Says:

    Would be cool to see this work on the user registration form.

    thanks.

  17. 17
    Marco Says:

    Stephen,

    I bet you are running WP 2.5
    I had captcha free running on 2.3.?
    After upgrading to 2.5 i had the same as you. I gues captcha-free doesnt work on 2.5

  18. 18
    Jim Robson Says:

    It’s not working for me. I installed and activated the plugin, but the spam is getting right through.

  19. 19
    Frank Zondo Says:

    Thanks for a great plug-in!

  20. 20
    nogu Says:

    nice work

  21. 21
    S Says:

    Hi,

    I keep getting the error: Invalid Data: Please go back and try again.

    I figure it has to do with the code below, but I can’t seem to make it work. It does work for some visitors but not others.
    // Validate the hash
    add_action(’preprocess_comment’, ‘cf_comment_post’);
    function cf_comment_post($commentdata) {
    // Ignore trackbacks
    if($commentdata['comment_type']!=’trackback’) {
    // Calculate the timehash that is valid now
    $timehash=timehash($commentdata['comment_post_ID'],time());
    // Calculate the timehash that was valid 1 hour back to give some cushion
    $timehash_old=timehash($commentdata['comment_post_ID'],time()-3600);
    if($_POST['captchafree']!=$timehash && $_POST['captchafree']!=$timehash_old)
    wp_die(’Invalid Data: Please go back and try again.’);
    }
    return $commentdata;
    }

  22. 22
    Herman Bos Says:

    Maybe you can update your entry/plugin to show if/make it wordpress 2.5 compatible.

  23. 23
    Jason Says:

    Simple suggestion for future updates: the tag containing “Spam protection by WP Captcha-Free” should have an id attribute.

    Anyway, nice plugin. Seems to be working well for me.

  24. 24
    Nate Says:

    I’ve installed Captcha-Free on my blog, running WP 2.5.1, when a comment is posted, you just get forwarded to Google, for some reason, and the comment isn’t posted?!

    http://hintofsarcasm.com is the address, any ideas?

  25. 25
    Laura Says:

    I installed this the other day, and it’s fabulous. I’m getting more comments than I was with the often faulty, always irritating captcha software I was using before. Just one thing, though. People who use AOL’s browser are getting an error when they try to post: Invalid data. Please go back and try again. Any thoughts I can pass along to them, or are they SOL?

  26. 26
    Fox Says:

    Thanks. This is great.

  27. 27
    lala Says:

    really great :)

  28. 28
    baron Says:

    hi there .thanks for plugin:

    Does anybody know if tis script is compatible with Wordpress 2.5.1?

    Thanks in advance for any help on this!

    best regards

  29. 29
    iDope Says:

    WP Captcha-Free is not compatible with Wordpress 2.5, yet.

  30. 30
    Adhi Yudho Says:

    Thankyou.. i will try this plugins.. :)

  31. 31
    Adhi Yudho Says:

    @iDope, yes .. true.. :( i’m not read your las comment… sorry.. but i will wait your next version… :)

  32. 32
    Hello Dudes Says:

    So this doesn’t seem to work anymore.. I don’t see the captcha and it’s not asking me to confirm any image….

  33. 33
    Kevin Says:

    great idea and work! thanks

  34. 34
    Martin Says:

    Is there any img verification for posting?

  35. 35
    iDope Says:

    The aim of this plugin is not having to use image verification.

  36. 36
    BaBy RoDrI Says:

    Mmmm…. que mal ya no funciona en Wordpress 2.5 :(

  37. 37
    Thomas Says:

    When people try commenting on my Wordpress MU site all it does now after you click submit comment is to change that button to “Please wait”. So no new comments can be added.

    100% spam free though :)

  38. 38
    Webspider Says:

    Work in new version WP ?

  39. 39
    Amiro Says:

    Work PERFECT !

  40. 40
    iDope Says:

    @Thomas: Please make sure you copy the “captcha-free.php” file directly to the wordpress plugins folder and not to a subfolder.

  41. 41
    Philix Says:

    This is a great plugin

  42. 42
    Jason Says:

    Wordpress: 2.6
    Theme: Redie 3.0 by Steve Arun

    I have installed your plug-in and I get the following message after I try and comment on a post:

    Invalid Data: Please go back and try again.

    I have it disabled currently but would love to give it some use… spam bots are so annoying…

    Thanks!

  43. 43
    iDope Says:

    @Jason: Are you sure you copied the captcha-free.php file to /wp-content/plugins directly and not to a sub-folder?

  44. 44
    Jason Says:

    @iDope: Thanks for the quick response. Yes I am sure that captcha-free.php is in /wp-content/plugins and not a subdirectory. I am assuming you are considering the wordpress directory the root? I deleted and just now redownloaded from this page and uploaded. Still nothing though. I get the same error.

    permissions are 644 so I don’t think that is any issue. there isn’t any modifications to the template code that needs to be done, is there? (As I do not have a default template)

  45. 45
    kitich Says:

    Great plugin, tnx.

    But i have problem – it’s ok to comment without login to wp, but if i login to my wp i see “Invalid Data: Please go back and try again.”

    PS plugin is in root of wp-content/plugins/

  46. 46
    Madeira Says:

    Hi

    We are also going to start a blog soon and were wondering how to takle comment spam.

    Thanks for the info!

  47. 47
    Internet Marketing Says:

    It works in a very simple way, great work!

  48. 48
    busby seo test Says:

    Would be cool to see this work on the user registration form.

    thanks.

  49. 49
    ulu Says:

    same error as the other guy
    Invalid Data: Please go back and try again.

  50. 50
    Page Rank Says:

    Works perfect in my WP 2.7 !

  51. 51
    iDope Says:

    @kitich: I think your theme is not calling the ‘comment_form’ action when you are logged in.

  52. 52
    Thomas Reitz Says:

    “The article is very informative as well as so creative. You have very great knowledge having this subject. So nice! It’s a great to see you here.

    Thanks!

  53. 53
    zoomag Says:

    Grabbed the plugin and testing it on a new site now. Using the latest version of WP. easy installed and easy in use! this plugin helped alot and I did noticed that my comment spam levels dropped well. Thank alot!))

  54. 54
    MAC Says:

    HI I cant seem to work it out

    Everytime i try to post a comment i keep getting this mesage: Invalid Data: Please go back and try again

    I have the plugin in the plugins folder (_root)

    What can i do?

    Cheers!

    MAC

  55. 55
    smart maxx Says:

    http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-plugins/captcha-free/

    This plugin doesn’t works. It shows only link to this page and no picture.

  56. 56
    iDope Says:

    @smart maxx: I think you missed the point of this plugin. It stops spam *without* captcha.

  57. 57
    iDope Says:

    @MAC: Send me a link to your blog and I’ll check it out.

  58. 58
    sundhar Says:

    nice plugin

  59. 59
    Irfan Faruki Says:

    Plugin does not seems to work fine with wp 2.7. Any ideas?

  60. 60
    John Barrett Says:

    Is this working on my blog? I thought that I would get a enter code below the captcha numbers/letters. ON mine nothing is happening. My blog is at http://blog.meleana.info it is a blog about flash, but I get all these porn comments, I don’t see the connection. Wordpress is too hard, and am not sure if I want to continue blogging as I spend way too long delete spam, yikes!

    Thanks so much for all your hard work on creating some files to help prevent spam, I appreciate all your work.
    Johnny

  61. 61
    0% nazwy Says:

    Nice. I like it!

  62. 62
    Rolando Says:

    Excellent, thanks for the plugin!

  63. 63
    Jack Clarke Says:

    Added this cool plugin and my spam went from over 40 a day to zero, nice ! WP 2.7.1 by the way.

  64. 64
    iDope Says:

    @Irfan Faruki: What error are you getting?

    @John Barrett: The purpose of this plugin is *not* have the commenter to type a CAPTCHA answer.

  65. 65
    iDope Says:

    BTW, I have released a new CAPTCHA plugin, more secure but still does not require commentors to type a CAPTCHA. Just requires a click to solve.

    http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-plugins/clickcha/

  66. 66
    beta Says:

    Thanks for this great plugin, spam influx went down to zero. But somehow I get an error (http 500) on my site, when I am using MS Internet Explorer 7 to leave a comment. Firefox works fine.

  67. 67
    Toni Says:

    The very best :)

  68. 68
    SSG Says:

    I absolutely LOVE this plugin-there has been NO spam since I started using it.

    However, the last few days, I’ve noticed it will sometimes throw an “invalid data” error when a legitimate comment is submitted. It *seems* to be related to the use of ellipses (… at the end of a statement) but I’m not 100% sure.

    Using Wordpress 2.7.1, with the latest version of Captcha Free.

    Any ideas?

  69. 69
    Pete Says:

    Promising plugin, but, 2 errors:
    1. Stops responses in the admin forms.
    2. Stops pingbacks, and the “trackback” test is commented out!

  70. 70
    ibrahim Says:

    nice plugin, but there seems to be a bug in the code whereby if there are more 2 or more forms on a page, and if multiple forms have a ’submit’ element id for the submit button, then the 1st form will get submitted instead.

    so, if the 1st form is a search box, it will submit a search query instead of the comment form.

    to solve it, change: document.getElementById(’submit’).click();

    to: document.getElementById(’commentform’).elements['submit'].click();

  71. 71
    shams Says:

    Hello!
    Nice plug-in but I can’t make it work! I always have the “invalid-data” error…
    php file is in the plugin directory.

    Can you help me?

  72. 72
    Jimmy Says:

    Plugin not working, get the following message when submitting a comment:

    “Invalid Data: Please go back and try again.”

    Using 2.7.1 WP version and tested on Firefox and Safari. The plugin is in the plugins root folder. The idea is great but it seems only a few here manage to make it work.

  73. 73
    Luchezar Says:

    “Invalid Data: Please go back and try again.” This error appears when visitors posting comments from any version of IE (for now I have IE8 and testing whith it).

    WP 2.7.1 php file in /content/ directory.

    The problem appeared after upgrade to WP 2.7 and makes plugin useless. Deactivating solve the problem.

  74. 74
    Luchezar Says:

    * wp-content/plugins/ directory sorry

  75. 75
    iDope Says:

    @ibrahim: Your theme may be at fault here. As per HTML specs element IDs should be unique:

    http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.5.2

  76. 76
    Web Design Quote Says:

    I appreciate all your work for creating the files to help prevent from spam. This type of button is helpful for the commenter to post their comment without any error.Thanks for the post.

  77. 77
    Dennis Says:

    Running WP 2.7 and the most recent version of WP Captcha Free and it is apparently working nicely.

  78. 78
    Mythender Says:

    Hello, I’ve been using your plugin for a few days and I have both a question and a comment.

    Firstly, the comment: on line 86 of captcha-free.php you open a <small> tag but never close it. Just thought I’d point that out.

    Secondly, why don’t you use your own plugin on your comment forms here?

  79. 79
    iDope Says:

    @Mythender: Thanks for the feedback. But I do close the <small> tag. Maybe you have an older version?

    I also wrote the Clickcha plugin I use here and it got the space since its the newer one :)

  80. 80
    Mythender Says:

    ahh I see about Clickcha

    as for the tag, I downloaded and installed version 0.5 of the plugin automatically through the wordpress plugin directory and everything below my comment form became… well… small….

    reading the document source I found the missing tag and looking into the code of your plugin led me to line 87:
    Please note: JavaScript is required to post comments.

  81. 81
    closeouts Says:

    HI
    Nice plug-in but I can’t make it work! I always have the “invalid-data” error…
    php file is in the plugin directory.

    help me

  82. 82
    iDope Says:

    I have released a new version in which the check is bypassed for logged-in users. Replying to comments from Wordpress admin should work now.

  83. 83
    Rolando Says:

    I did an automatic upgrade through my 2.8 WP site and got this message:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_current_user() in /home/nispiros/public_html/wordpress/wp-includes/capabilities.php on line 920

    Afterwards I couldn’t get to the site until I deleted the plugin through FTP .

  84. 84
    rosenkrieger Says:

    I get the same exact error as rolando.

    AHHH. Any chance of getting the old version up or the new one fixed? I really like this plugin. But as rolando I had to delete it via FTP to get my blog running again :-(

  85. 85
    iDope Says:

    Result of late night coding :(

    This has been fixed now, please get the latest version.

  86. 86
    Basyarah Says:

    this plugin have been installed on my web

  87. 87
    rosenkrieger Says:

    Thank you! Working again :-)

  88. 88
    Rolando Says:

    Thanks for the fix!

  89. 89
    Cory Says:

    Getting the “Invalid data” error when submitting. I’ve left it up for now at my site above. I made sure I copied it to the root of my wp-content/plugins directory and activated it. Thanks for any help you can provide.

  90. 90
    Cory Says:

    Ok, here’s what I see. $_POST['captchafree'] seems to not be being populated. It looks like my theme (Fusion) is calling comment_form:

    ID); ?>

    Not sure if that’s correct or not, but maybe that helps. Thanks again.

  91. 91
    iDope Says:

    @Cory: Looks like your theme doesn’t have the ‘comment_form’ hook. Enter the following code right before the closing tag in the comments.php file of the theme.

    <?php do_action(’comment_form’, $post->ID); ?>

  92. 92
    Sapan Says:

    Hello iDope,

    thanks a lot for the beautiful plugin…. Its working fine for me….

    I came across this page searching for “Invalid Data: go back and try again” error…

    I am not getting the error in ur plugin but in “Wordpress Threads Comment” plugin…
    In that plugin I had enabled AJAX support. I tried to debug and found that it works fine till displaying the messsage “submitting comment……..” But after that the xmlhttprequest.status = 500 instead of 200. Do you have any idea about where it is failing ?

    As soon as i deactivate the plugin , all works fine and visitors and post comment.

    Also point is that if I am logged in as Admin and try to post the comment, it works fine. !!!

    Most of the comments on that plugin with the :Invalid data…..” problem are unsolved and unanswered :(

    It would be very kind of you if u could just guide me….

    thanks a lot….

  93. 93
    Sapan Says:

    Hello iDope,

    wasn’t expecting that u wudn’t approve my comment….

    btw, it wasn’t the problem of the WP Thread Comments Plugin but now I think it was the problem of this plugin…

    As soon as I disabled the WP Captcha Free Plugin, the ajax comment started working !!!

    btw, I even tried to use other ajax comment plugin but same problem with all….

    So can u guide me what should i do ??

    I hope u won’t unapprove this comment as it is pertaining to YOUR plugin problem…

    thanks for the help… :)

  94. 94
    Sapan Says:

    Hello idope,

    I m really sorry… when i made the previous comment, the last comment that i was able to see was urs i.e. of July 10.. so i felt that u unapproved it :(

    but after i submitted the above one, the previous one was also visible… :)

    thanks….

  95. 95
    active xtream Says:

    Really nice n cool plugin..
    thanks for sharing..

  96. 96
    Eva Says:

    This plugin is GREAT, it works so smoothly! Thank you so much!

  97. 97
    Gyro Says:

    Hi there, any chance you can ajax your clickcha plugin so a new page is NOT shown when there is an error? just an error message?

    Thanks, ps great plugin!

  98. 98
    iDope Says:

    @Sapan: I don’t think this plugin can coexist with “Wordpress Threads Comment” as they both control how the comment gets posted using ajax.

    @Gyro: The plugin does use ajax and most of your genuine commenters (the ones that have Javascript enabled) will not see that page.

  99. 99
    Deals Hunt Says:

    wow, cool deal and nice n cool plugin
    thanks for sharing !

  100. 100
    Ray Says:

    This is one of the most useful plugins I have come across. It is great to be able to eliminate spam while not inconveniencing your blog visitors. Great job,

  101. 101
    Evgeny Says:

    Thanks a lot. Such a nice plugin.

  102. 102
    seksi iç giyim Says:

    Really nice n cool plugin..
    thanks for sharing

  103. 103
    LEONG POH YUIN Says:

    The omy.sg linked me here now.

    I have problems submitting blog reply to chimkang’s blog in omy.sg

    Please help me as i like to go to his blog and i share with friends there…..pls don’t disregard me ! Please !

  104. 104
    iDope Says:

    @LEONG: I was able to post a comment just fine on your blog. Are you getting an error?

  105. 105
    luis Says:

    does it work with wp 2.9.2?

  106. 106
    Mouad Says:

    I wonder why you yourself use another captcha plugin (the biggest circle) to block spam comments !

    Should you not rely solely on your plugin if it indeed works ?

    Also, I would like to understand how exactly this plugin works. I read above, but didnt quite understand, and not being Bill gates, I wish you would explain in more simple words, how does this plugin work, and does it work with all languages, including blogs in right to left langs, like ARabic ?

  107. 107
    Jon Says:

    I am using a theme based on Kubrick and some, but not all, users get “Invalid data: Please go back and try again.” when trying to enter a comment.

  108. 108
    jonny Says:

    Sorry im new to this but i want to know if it’s posible to use this plugin on blogspot or it just for Wordpress?

    Thanks for your answers

  109. 109
    @Drivelry Says:

    Looks like someone has now built a bot / tool that gets around it. My spam died off completely and now is back as of a couple of months ago.

  110. 110
    dirk Says:

    What a nice Anti Spam Tool. i just startet and spam is really one of my biggest problems till today. Even the normal Captcha ist not function

    Thanks a Lot

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    Angelis Thorton Says:

    Does this automatically reject Links? Or does it only reject duplicates? And does it also recognize proxies? Thanks in advance for the incoming answers.

  112. 112
    Jake Says:

    I just got 3 comments on 3 separate posts, tonight from the same spammer. They each had like 50 links in them. I have the built-in WP spam control set to hold in moderation anything with over 2 links, yet the comments were posted anyway. Does your plugin override the normal wp settings?

  113. 113
    Petrunya Says:

    Really nice n cool plugin.

  114. 114
    John Says:

    Does this plugin work on the registration page? Thanks

  115. 115
    Jens Says:

    Does this work? Seems like a nice easy way of geting around it

  116. 116
    Revathi Says:

    I get ‘Invalid data. Please go back and try again.’
    Can you help? Thanks

  117. 117
    Angelica Says:

    It seems like a lot of people are attacking you. I think your idea is very good and I’m going to try it.

  118. 118
    Grahame Cooper Says:

    I have been using this excellent plug-in for about a year and it has been great. In the last month, though, I have found spam getting through.

    I don’t know whether this is the result of some new spamming tool appearing on the scene.

  119. 119
    Revathi Says:

    Solved it. There was a # between php and do in the line
    ID); ?> in my theme.
    I removed it and it works great. Thanks for a nice plugin.

  120. 120
    andy Says:

    Is this OK with WordPress 3.0? and…how come you use Clickcha on this form? Why not use your own plugin…?

  121. 121
    Guy Smith Says:

    This plug-in worked(works) great until recently. One spammer appears to have figured-out that a lot of WordPress sites have this, and have adjusted their algorithms to get past WP Captcha-Free (all the spams thus far are pitching low-cost loans).

    Might be good to provide some threshold adjustments or other tools to defeat this new threat.

  122. 122
    Dunga Says:

    I’ve installed it but it seems to me that this plugin doesn’t work along with my WP theme :(

  123. 123
    Healthy Living Says:

    Yes, nice plugin. Really nice… :)

  124. 124
    Zeeshan A Zakaria Says:

    This is the best anti-spam plugin which I have ever used. So far it is working great. Previously I was using Akismet, I never liked captcha, and this plugin has added convenience both for me and the genuine visitors who comment. I hope it is not filtering the genuine comments.

    By the way, why on your own website you are using captcha?

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    Graphic Designer Says:

    This is a really nice plugin. Tried installing several others but they just weren’t good enough, and one was flash based which was a nightmare. Thank you so much for this.

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    erich Says:

    You are a hero among men (and women). You are a star!
    Ironic that you are using a captcha system too, though! ;-)

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    oversized chairs Says:

    I like the clickcha better. Very cleaver indeed. I wonder how the spammers will be able to crack this one.

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    juicycouture Says:

    Grabbed the plugin and testing it on a new site now. Using the latest version of WP. SHall give you a shout should i run across any problems.Thanks a lot. Such a nice plugin.

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    Sexycssweb Says:

    Simply best plugin for me!

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    Delfin Says:

    One of the finest plugin I ever seen. Thanks for sharing such a useful plugin.

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    Tosu Says:

    Hi there,

    Does it work with WP3.0.1?

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    seolar Says:

    Very cool and useful plugin for wordpress. I like this one very much.
    Thanks for your hard work developing this extension.

    Please keep on developing those cool plugins!

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    Art Says:

    Nice plugin. It doesnt eliminate everything, but it does remove about 90% for me.

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    Sharon Says:

    Getting the “Invalid data” error when submitting. I’ve left it up for now at my site above. The plugin is in my wp-content/plugins directory and is activated. Using word press 3.0.1 (just upgraded to this in hope of solving error). Also using template Atalpha 3.4.6 Thanks for any help you can provide.

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    Neal Morgan Says:

    Love this plug-in. My new theme has only been up a few days and I was getting far to many comments to be realistic. Not wanting to put another level in the way of real people making comments on my posts i was reluctant to use a captcha. This is perfect, Many thanks :)

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    Michelle Says:

    Thanks for the great plug-in. You are so sweet!

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    game boy Says:

    The plugin is good it eliminate about 95% of spam , it save me allot of time, one of the best captcha system available.

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    Garf Says:

    Firstly, thanks for making your plug-in available to bloggers. Been using for a few months but wondering how do I get to decide whether or not comments are spam?
    Stated using Akismet stats on one of my blogs that has wp-captcha and saw that in the last two months 120 comments had been identified as spam.
    Does wp-captch have something akin to a “spam folder” somewhere that I can check?
    Thanks

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    incomen Says:

    I like the simplicity of this plugin. No setup, just install it and forget it. At least for me is working nice until now.

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    Dmitriy Says:

    Just works, I’ve encountered 0 problems. Thanks!

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    Steel Frame Buildings Says:

    So far it is working great. Previously I was using Akismet, I never liked captcha, and this plugin has added convenience both for me and the genuine visitors who comment. I hope it is not filtering the genuine comments.

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    sell timeshare Says:

    Firstly, the comment: on line 86 of captcha-free.php you open a tag but never close it. Just thought I’d point that out.

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    Social Care Training Says:

    It didn’t work for me. It came up with an error for me when I was writing a comment on a article about social care reform. :(

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    MMO Tomb Says:

    I used your plug-in in my blog and it was working GREAT it was a god sent gift for me. But when I changed my theme I started to get Errors trying to post comments (but some people still can go through and post). I removed the plugin now, are you aware of such problem?

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    Calling Cards Says:

    I appreciate all your work for creating the files to help prevent from spam. This type of button is helpful for the commenter to post their comment without any error.Thanks for the post.

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    Kristen Simmons Says:

    Looks like an interesting option for controlling spam. I personally hate captchas. I have a hard time figuring them out myself and I consider myself computer savvy with perfect vision. Solutions that don’t use font you can barely read are appreciated.

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    Shuaib Says:

    Hi,

    Nice plugin. But I noticed lately it gives an “Invalid Data” error when submitting a valid comment. I had to disable it for now. Can you please look into this?

    Thanks and keep up the good work.

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    chandrakant Says:

    Please keep on developing those cool plugins!

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    M. Y. Says:

    I am running Wordpress 3.0.5. Thanks for this wonderful Wordpress plug-in. Before I installed and activated your plug-in I was getting around 20-60 spam comments per day. It’s working so well. I haven’t gotten any spam comments at all, that’s ZERO, since I activated your plug-in. Thanks!

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    Manu Says:

    Nice that such a facility has been created.

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    Kristy Says:

    Cool Plugin. Hope that this plugin can help me to get rid of spammers. Thanks.

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    mona Says:

    so you are not using it on this site ?
    :)

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    Paul Furey Says:

    The spamsters had found my blog – it was getting dangerous :)

    Then I found your plugin, installed smoothly – I do not understand how it works but hey…it works.

    But it looks like I got it just in time as my blog traffic sky rocketed (with those lowlife spamsters)and not one comment has got through.

    Many thanks for a great product.

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    Haseena Butt Says:

    Nice plugin. It doesnt eliminate everything, but it does remove about 90% for me

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    jeff Says:

    hi, I love your plugin and it works great. I have only 1 problem… after I click the “submit comment” button, it does nothing, after I click it again it works. So the button seems to require 2 clicks. With the plugin deactivated the “submit comment” button only requires 1 click to post the comment. Any thoughts? Again, great plugin!

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    faruk Says:

    It is the best anti-spam plugin which I have ever used. So it is working fine. Previously I was using Akismet, I never liked captcha, and this captcha has added convenience both for me and the genuine visitors who comment. I hope it is not filtering the genuine comments.Thanks a lot.

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    Adrian Says:

    One of the best plugin so far. Thank you for the innovation.

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    Paul Dauphin Says:

    I like the concept. I will try and report my experience.

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    Jason Says:

    Great plugin, though I have a suggestion: Have it display a captcha for people without java (and telling them that captchas aren’t required if they have java enabled, or have a user account). That’s the best of both worlds — it just works for ~95% of users without any inconvenience, but remains accessible to the ~5% without java.

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    Revathi Says:

    This is a very nice plugin I have been using.

    But after upgrading to Wordpress 3.1.2.this plugin shows “invalid Data” error. Can you please update this plugin for the latest version of Wordpress? Thanks much!

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    Vikcon Says:

    Plugin is not available on WP plugins list.
    Please check

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    Daniel D'Laine Says:

    Hi, I love this plugin, but why are all the download links down. Has it become a premium plugin? I am looking for the zip file.
    Regards
    D.D’Laine

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    iDope Says:

    Please try again. It is up now.

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    Daniel D'Laine Says:

    Brilliant!

    It works a treat, although I did have some problems adding it through the dashboard (using WP Ver.3.3.0), which didn’t matter as I just uploadded it by FTP and it activated with no probs.
    Could be something to do with the theme? Either way, it works for me and saves loads of time!!

    Regards
    Daniel

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