CleanTalk Cloud Anti-Spam

CleanTalk Cloud Anti-Spam is a premium cloud service used with the CleanTalk anti-spam add-on for WordPress. It checks supported activity through a global spam detection network, with no CAPTCHA puzzles or user challenges.

Checks before and during submission

SpamFireWall can block known active spam bots before they load site pages. The plugin checks other supported activity when a visitor submits a comment, form, registration or order. Its Anti-Spam Log records checked requests, and the service dashboard shows spam and legitimate request statistics for each website.

Comment, form and shop outcomes

Comment protection covers native WordPress comments, Jetpack comments and other comment add-ons. Depending on the options, detected spam can go to the Spam or Trash folder, be deleted, or be blocked silently. Stop-word comments are kept in Pending. The plugin can also clean existing spam comments and customers, and automatically approve comments it identifies as legitimate. The Real Person Badge identifies and highlights legitimate commenters.

Supported activity includes registrations, logins, contact messages, subscriptions, bookings, polls, surveys, search forms, reviews and online orders. Integrations include Contact Form 7, WPForms, Elementor Forms, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms, Forminator, Formidable Forms and Ninja Forms. Enable the external forms option to protect forms that send data to third-party services such as MailChimp.

For stores, CleanTalk filters spam registrations, reviews and fake orders. The supplied information names WooCommerce and states compatibility with WooCommerce 2.1 and later.

Email and filtering controls

Real-time email validation checks whether an address is real or fake. CleanTalk can block disposable and temporary email addresses. Site owners can also use private IP and email lists, and filter submissions by language, country, network or stop words.

The plugin includes a honeypot option for supported forms and a contact-data encoding feature intended to make published email addresses and phone numbers harder for bots to harvest.

Setup and service details

Install and activate the CleanTalk anti-spam plugin in WordPress, connect it to the Cloud Anti-Spam service, then configure the available protection settings. The service is described as compatible with WordPress cache extensions, Cloudflare and content delivery networks. With Cloudflare, blacklist checks do not apply to Cloudflare network IPs; other anti-spam tests are used.

The service includes a free trial, followed by a paid subscription. The supplied pricing information states $12 per year; the source also describes pricing from $12 per year per site with unlimited spam checks.