Description

Tired of spam bots, false registrations and other spammy nonsense? Don’t wan’t to use a clumsy and user-unfriendly Captcha?
Meet No-Bot Registration, superior protection without making it hard for users. Easily blacklist (partial) email addresses or domains so they can no longer register.
Have unregistered users answer a logic and basic question upon registration. Deny them registration if they fail.

Features

Protect registration forms
Protect the WooCommerce checkout form if you let people register from there
Protect the Classic Commerce checkout form like you do with WooCommerce
Protect the comment form
Prevents comment spam, trackback spam and other nuisances with ease
Set up multiple security questions to further confuse bots
Blacklist any email, domain or tld you don’t like
Configurable notification messages for users failing the security tests

Screenshots

Registration Protection Settings
Blacklist Settings
Example of security question on registration
Example of security question on WooCommerce

Installation

Navigate to Plugins > Add New in your dashboard.
Search for ‘Arnan No-Bot’ or ‘Arnan’ in the plugin database and click install.
Activate the plugin when done.
Navigate to Tools > No-Bot Registration in your dashboard for settings.

FAQ

This looks familiar

This plugin is inspired by Mika Epsteins Banhammer plugin with some improved routines and borrows some methods from WP No Bot Question from Digicompitech. I have rewritten most methods to work easier and more efficient. But the core functionality is very similar.

I need help with this plugin

Check out my Support Forum

This is cool, do you have more plugins?

Yep, check out my website AJdG Solutions

Reviews

Andrew1977 Dec 28, 2022 2 replies

Fantastic plugin, with great support!

Japanese Explorer Nov 30, 2022 2 replies

have not explored anough, but this plugin is works so good

makas Oct 16, 2021 2 replies

I have used it for a long time without any problems, but recently got bombarded with thousands of fake registrations. Even now at this moment as I write a review I get a fake registration every 2 minutes or so. It's sad, used to be a good protection.

JohnP Sep 28, 2021

I was getting dozens of bot registrations every day. Now I don't.

FragMagnet Jul 27, 2021 1 reply

Captcha did literally nothing to stop all the blank spambot registrations clogging up my userlist, but this did the trick and I haven't had a single fake user turn up since installing this plugin.

Alex Molina Maranho Jun 10, 2021

Work

Contributors & Developers

“No-Bot Registration – Stop fake accounts” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Arnan de Gans

“No-Bot Registration – Stop fake accounts” has been translated into 4 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “No-Bot Registration – Stop fake accounts” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Change log

1.8.2 – 2 January, 2023

Fixed better check for filtering comments/registrations
Tweak replaced alias functions with actual functions
Tweak minor code cleanups

1.8.1 – 30 December, 2022

Fixed excempting editors and admins on field check
Fixed excluding non-protected fields from field check

1.8 – 22 October, 2022

Fixed email error on wrong question answer
Fixed redone the filter process (simpler and better hooks/filters)
Fixed added native Classic Commerce compatibility
Tweak better formatted error message

1.7.12 – 21 October, 2022

Fixed support links
Fixed compatibility info
Fixed plugin links

1.7.11 – 18 October, 2022

Added several missing translation strings

1.7.10 – 7 October, 2022

Updated support links
Tested to work with WordPress 6+

1.7.9 – 25 January, 2022

Tested to work with WordPress 5.9
Tested to work with ClassicPress 1.3.1

1.7.8 – 20 June, 2021

Updated readme.txt
Tested to work with WordPress 5.7

1.7.7 – 25 January, 2021

Happy New Year
Added News&Update links

1.7.6 – 3 August, 2020

Updated to work with WordPress 5.5
[change] Dashboard tweaks

1.7.5 – 16 July 2020

[fix] Captcha trap not always checked
[fix] Empty question list causing array errors

1.7.4 – 3 February, 2020

[fix] Review notification linking to wrong dashboard url
[fix] Deleting answers not always removing an variation
[change] New style for notification banners

1.7.3 – 4 October, 2019

[fix] Not always showing the captcha if WooCommerce protection is on
[change] Dashboard tweaks
[change] Moved dashboard to Tools Menu

1.7.2 – 9 September, 2019

[fix] Dashboard widgets showing properly
[i18n] Updated translations

1.7.1 – 30 August, 2019

[change] Dashboard tweaks
[i18n] Updated translations

1.7 – 21 August, 2019

[change] Updated dashboard
[change] WordPress 5.2.2 compatibility
[i18n] Updated translation implementation

1.6.1 – 16 June, 2019

[change] Updated dashboard
[fix] Wrong url in plugin links

1.6 – 29 May, 2019

[fix] Not able to hide Rate plugin banner
[change] Answers are now case-insensitive, ‘Nine’ and ‘nine’ are the same
[i18n] Added more strings to translate
[i18n] Updated translation file

1.5 – 9 May, 2019

[change] WordPress 5.2 compatibility
[fix] Improved WooCommerce compatibility
[change] Updated dashboard

1.4 – 26 March, 2019

[change] WordPress 5.0 compatibility
[change] Updated dashboard

1.3 – 8 July, 2018

[new] Bot trap in registration forms
[new] Bot trap in comment form
[change] Updated dashboard

1.2.3 – 3 June, 2018

[fix] Close link on notification not working

1.2.2 – 17 May, 2018

[change] Compatibility update
[change] Updated dashboard
[change] Cleaned up CSS
[i18n] Added missing translation strings
[i18n] Updated translation files

1.2.1 – 13 December, 2017

Dashboard tweaks
Removed unused assets
Compatibility update

1.2 – 14 May, 2017

Dashboard tweaks

1.1 – 19 April, 2017

Improved WooCommerce compatibity
Fixed security field on my-account page of WooCommerce
Dashboard tweaks

1.0 – 24 February, 2017

First release