Recently I came across a fantastic plugin called Grow Map Antispam Plugin which displays a check box in comments. I’m seeing this plugin running on hundreds of blogs. The Plugin is developed by Gowmap, Andy from CommentLuv! I’ve to say Andy has done awesome work with this plugin.
What is GASP?
This plugin will add a client side generated checkbox to your comment form asking users to confirm that they are not a spammer. It is a lot less trouble to click a box than it is to enter a captcha and because the box is genereated via client side javascript that bots cannot see, it should stop 99% of all automated spam bots.
Resason Why to Choose GASP – quoted from Growmap’s article
- No false positives – your favorite commentators and new readers WILL be able to easily comment in your blog.
- Blocks spam that Akismet was letting through. We are getting ZERO bot spam. Only those commenting manually who check the “I am not a spammer box” can leave comments.
- Easier for commentators than using a Captcha or math plugin – never a “wrong” answer that isn’t wrong or a problem with cookies!
Some great reviews about GASP:
Check out what others have to say about this awesome anti spam plugin
- WordPress Plugin Review – Growmap Anti-Spambot Plugin – Kim
- GrowMap Anti-SpamBot Plugin For WordPress a Must For Any Blogger – Karen, Blazing Minds
- Testing the Growmap Anti Spambot WordPress Plugin – Justin, Dragon Blogger
Why we’re not using it?
Many of you’re thinking why we haven’t started using it on our blog. The Simple reason is we’re not getting much spam on WP Kube!!
Check out the official post on growmap or download it from the directory!
This is a great plugin! Say no to spammers alright. I’m definitely writing about this plugin as well.
Yeah, GASP is an awesome anti spam plugin.
Thanks for the nice comment kevin.
Hey guys and thanks for the shoutout. I’m totally enjoying that plugin and am very happy with the results its producing. I hope everyone checks it out. Andy’s got mad coding skills and his stuff is always superb and this is no exception.
Kim
You’re welcome kim and thanks for the nice comment.
Enjoy your holidays.
I’ve seen this feature used on other blogs and never knew what the plugin was actually called. Thanks for writing about this. I look forward to reading future posts from you.
That’s great to hear Jared.
Thanks for the nice comment. Have a great day.
Hi Devesh.
I can confirm that this is really a powerful plugin. It’s very helpful for both my readers and myself.
Thanks for sharing.
Take care
Oliver
Yeah, GASP is an awesome plugin. Andy did great work with this plugin.
Thanks for the comment oliver.
I’ll install this plugin on my blog.If it will helpful for me,i’ll write about this plugin on my blog.I’m going to install it…………
That’s great to hear Mir.
Thanks for the comment.
This is really a nice plugin,i am making use of his plugin on my blog and its working fine.It separates spam comments from normal comments.But you are not using it yet!
Jagan,
Yeah, it is one of the awesome plugin to stop spam.
The reason we haven’t started using it for WP Kube.. is we’re not getting much spam comments.
Thanks for the comment jagan.
Superb share. Will use on my (too many) blogs/webs.
Now that we’ve witnessed ANOTHER great find, would you be willing to share your own list of “Must Have Plugins” for all “somewhat typical” WordPress sites? If that’s too general, which minimum set of plugins are recommended? (I got to this site as a result of ProBlogger’s mention of WPKube in it’s LoadFaster article.) Thanks!
That’s great to hear Curt.
Would love to write a post on “Must Have plugins”.
Thanks for the suggestion and nice comment curt. Much Appreciated.
‘Many of you’re thinking why we haven’t started using it on our blog. The Simple reason is we’re not getting much spam on WP Kube!!’ – lucky you, wish you to stay on the same spam in future.
Great plugin, worth try. Thanks.
Glad you like the plugin. Thanks for the nice comment nova.
This is certainly one of the best plugins, i only just installed it today because my blog started averaging around 300+ spam comments a day (It’s horrible :’( ). Now i get 0 spam comments; it’s an awesome plugin
Yeah, GASP is one of the best anti spam plugin.
That’s great to hear peter. zero comments.
Thanks for the nice comment dude.
I have been using this plugin for a while now and I’m very happy with it. I’ve used a couple others, including askimet and this one is the best by far!
i think i should try this plugin, because ‘math comment spam’ plugin that i used can not fight spam anymore
I came across this plug-in recently too. Currently I use CAPTCHA but I can see how that can be a pain in the ass for some readers. The check-box is definitely an easier way to go. I will be switching to this plug-in for sure.
I was looking for this plugin. Did a google search and found it here. Thank you!!
nice plugin! no spam more. Spammers do not become! awesome!
thnk!
Very nice plugin, here after no problem about spam comments
Very nice plugin, here after no problem about spam comments
This is an awesome plugin. Am soon going to replace it with that captcha plugin.. You said it right, its a lot more easier to click a checkbox than filling a word.
This one seems to really promising, it would be better if they gave an option to subscribe in the same plugin, will check out if I can find any such plugins..
Is this plugin still working? Haven’t spammer find this out and added there spam bots to also check radiobuttons?
Hey Sven,
Yes, GASP still works better than any other anti spam plugin.
Great plugin. Spam’s always been a bit of an issue, even with Akismet you sometimes have to sift through thousands of spam comments to make sure one hasn’t accidentally been inappropriately marked. Thanks!
Just a followup: After installing this plugin, my akismet spam box has dropped from around 80 a day to 3 in 2 days. Impressive does not even come close to describing this addon.
All of bloggers need this plugin. It really saves lots of time. It does the same work as captchas but easier than it, for the reader. I diefinetely recommend it to all bloggers.
I am impressed with this article, so informative to learn a lot and share with my close friends and colleagues
After reading this article, I’ve looked into GASP. It seems incredibly effective. What I really need is a similar plugin for the bbpress plugin. That forum software seems incredibly vulnerable to spam bots
useful plugins.. since I use blogger, my default plugin is the Captcha.
Very nice plugin, here after no problem about spam comments
where is the link to download plugin ??
Here you go http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/growmap-anti-spambot-plugin/
What a great plugin! Much better than the other alternatives out there for controlling spam.
I am using akismet which is directing all my comments to spam folder. While finding solution, I find GASP and wp-recaptcha, Kindly tell me which one is better, if you can.
thanks for this plugin, i want to stop spam!
Certainly will. Very impressed by your dedication. Keep up the good work!
Great plugin to avoid spammers from your site. Thanks for share
An concept exactly what internet marketing and advertising speaking about.
I installed the GASP plug-in and immediately, got 14+ comments, good comments, through successfully! This plug-in WORKS!