Juliepr Comments Bot Honeypot

A minimal WordPress plugin that adds a hidden honeypot field to guest and logged-in comment forms. When an automated script fills the field, WordPress rejects the submission with HTTP 403.

Requires WordPress 6.5+ and PHP 7.4+.

Installation

1. Copy this directory to wp-content/plugins/.
2. Activate Juliepr Comments Bot Honeypot in Plugins → Installed Plugins.

Compatibility

Requests that do not contain the honeypot field are accepted. This preserves REST API clients, approved integrations, and cached versions of forms created before activation.

This is a basic spam filter, not a replacement for moderation or a dedicated anti-spam service.

Translations

The Russian translation is bundled as languages/juliepr-comments-bot-honeypot-ru_RU.l10n.php, the modern PHP translation-file format supported by WordPress 6.5+. No .mo file is shipped.

Validation

php -l juliepr-comments-bot-honeypot.php
php -l languages/juliepr-comments-bot-honeypot-ru_RU.l10n.php

License

GPL-2.0-or-later