exactly as advertised

Was a nice plugin but it seems to have disappeared ??

yeah, there is a security vulnerability that the author hasn’t fixed yet. I switched all my sites to WP Spamshield until he gets it fixed (and I might not switch back if it works just as well).

Ah thanks. Yes, I was just surfing around for info and discovered that while you were posting. Thanks for the response and the tip for a replacement!

@nosilver4u – what do you think of WP Spamshield? Is it working out nicely?

So far, so good, not spam has gotten through yet.

Thanks for the reply.

I took a close look at the developer’s site, and I’m both cautious and impressed at the same time.

Cautious – because there’s somewhat significant list of other plugin incompatibilities with it.

Impressed – not only because the developer goes into great detail about which other plugins & environments the script has had issues with (past / solved / currently existing) , but he even reaches out to the developers of other plugins that aren’t compatible in an effort to provide them with info that could help!

Perfect example is if you visit https://www.redsandmarketing.com/plugins/wp-spamshield/known-conflicts/ and then read item #3 where you can see a link to https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/some-of-the-plugin-code-needs-fixing-it-disables-registration-anti-spam/ in which you can see the “WP-Spamshield” dev attempting to help the “New User Approve” dev fix some code in New User Approve that would clean up their code and make both Plugins compatible together.

So yeah… even though the list of known issues with WP-SpamShield is a bit intimidating, the fact that Scott (the developer of WP-SpamShield) is so tenacious, thorough, and willing to reach out to other devs with assistance is very impressive. Also Scott’s blog, while not super active, is quite full of a lot good information. He certainly has a lot of desirable attributes in a developer and a serious approach.

Overall a good find, thanks again for the tip!