wp-spam-honeypot

=== Plugin Name === Contributors: tobias382 Tags: comments, spam Requires at least: 2.9.0 Tested up to: 4.1.1 Stable tag: 1.1.0

Adds a hidden text field to the comment form to trap spam bots.

== Description ==

This plugin works by adding a textarea field to the comment form that's hidden using a CSS style. Since bots don’t generally detect CSS like this, they proceed to fill out the field like any other field. This implies that they aren't a human (or they wouldn't "see" the field with CSS hiding it) using a browser, in which case the plugin marks the comment as spam. This seems to catch the vast majority of spam with very few false results and doesn't require contacting a third party service like most spam plugins.

== Installation ==

1. Upload spam-honeypot.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Be sure that your theme implements <?php do_action('comment_form'); ?> in comments.php and comments-popup.php
4. Optionally, go to the plugin's settings page and change the hidden textarea name and/or specify the submit
   button name; hover your mouse cursor over each of these fields for more details

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= How can I get a question added to this FAQ? =

Just contact me at [email protected] with your question. I'll respond with an answer and, if it appears relevant to the plugin's userbase, I'll add it to the FAQ in the next release.

== Changelog ==

= 1.1.0 =

• Added a settings page allowing the name of the hidden textarea to be set and the name attribute value of the
  comment form's submit button to be specified
• Added a check for the submit button value (if specified) to check_honeypot()

= 1.0.0 =

• Initial release.