Install
This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.
Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:
wp plugin install https://github.com/valerio-bozzolan/wp-no-links-please-anti-spam/archive/refs/heads/master.zipNo built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
«No-links please!» Anti-spam WordPress plugin
This astonishing-simple and really-effective anti-SPAM system just works. It definitively protects your WordPress site from SPAM without imposing annoying CAPTCHAs, configurations, third-party services, blockchains, artificial intelligence or unicorns. Oh, just avoid URLs in comments when not logged-in :^)
If your SPAM always contains links this could be your definitive solution.
Why it works
You can't really stop SPAM-bots. Bots try to submit tons of links into your comments in the hope that search engines will index them. Fortunately WordPress already de-index them since years as default but unfortunately bots do their job anyway, shooting in the mass and hoping to find a way to spread their spam via web.
Here is the idea: applying a small "no links please!" netiquette you can pratically kill every SPAM-bot of this kind at their deep intentions, before even reaching your database.
Tl;dr If you do not write links you are a good human.
Features
The SPAM is just dropped before reaching your database
It does not annoy the average user (have you said CAPTCHA?)
It does not need maintainment (have you said public blacklist?)
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