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Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
v5.7.2
The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.
by Automattic · Website
anti-spamantispamcommentscontact formspam
- Rank
- #8 24h 0 · 7d 0
- Est. installs
- 5,841,466 High confidence
- Total downloads
- 408M all time
- Rating
- 4.7 ★ 1.2K reviews
- Official installs
- 5,000,000+ public bucket
- Support threads
- 1 last 2 months
- Support resolved
- 0% of threads
- Tested up to
- WP 7.1.3 compatibility
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Maintenance & compatibility
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Last release
- Version
- 5.7.2
- Requires WP
- 5.8
- Requires PHP
- 7.2
- On WP.org since
- 2005
About Akismet Anti-spam
Akismet Anti-spam is a WordPress plugin by Automattic, first published on WordPress.org in 2005. It has 5,000,000+ active installations and 407,948,652 downloads in total, and ranks #8 in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Its directory rank held steady over the past week. Users rate it 4.7 out of 5 across 1,187 reviews. Version 5.7.2 was released 2 months ago. It is tested up to WordPress 7.1.3 and requires WordPress 5.8 and PHP 7.2 or later. In the last two months, 0 of 1 support thread was marked resolved (0%). It is listed under anti-spam, antispam, comments, contact form and spam. Plugins with a similar focus include Antispam Bee, Spam Destroyer and CleanTalk Anti-Spam.
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