CleanTalk Cloud Anti-Spam is a premium cloud service used with the CleanTalk anti-spam plugin for WordPress. It checks supported submissions against a global spam detection network and other anti-spam tests. Visitors can submit forms and comments without solving CAPTCHA challenges or puzzles.

Comments, forms and accounts

The add-on filters native WordPress comments, Jetpack comments and comments handled by other add-ons. You can move detected spam to the Spam or Trash folder, block it silently, or automatically delete comments from Spam. Settings can also approve legitimate comments automatically. Existing comments and users can be checked for spam.

CleanTalk checks contact form messages, registrations, logins, subscriptions, bookings, polls, surveys and search forms. Integrations include Contact Form 7, WPForms, Elementor Forms, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms, Forminator, Ninja Forms, Formidable Forms, Asgaros Forum, bbPress, Brevo, Easy Digital Downloads, Everest Forms and Events Manager. External forms that send data to services such as MailChimp can be protected when the Protect external forms option is enabled.

Store and submission protection

For WooCommerce, CleanTalk filters spam registrations, reviews and fake orders. The supplied information states compatibility with WooCommerce 2.1 and later. Other supported integrations cover form, booking, chat and commerce tools.

Real-time email validation checks submitted addresses. CleanTalk can block disposable and temporary email addresses, and private IP or email lists can block selected senders. Additional filters can be set by language, country, network or stop words.

Additional controls

Spam FireWall blocks known active spam bots before they reach forms and site content. The Anti-Spam Log and dashboard analytics display checked requests and spam or legitimate request statistics. The Real Person Badge identifies and highlights legitimate commenters and can automatically approve their comments. Contact data encoding helps prevent bots from harvesting published email addresses and phone numbers.

CleanTalk works with WordPress cache extensions, Cloudflare and content delivery networks. It does not check Cloudflare IP addresses against its blacklist database; it uses other anti-spam tests for those requests.

Setup and service

Install and activate the CleanTalk anti-spam plugin from the WordPress dashboard, connect it to the Cloud Anti-Spam service, then configure the available protection options. Ongoing cloud protection requires the paid service, which includes a free trial followed by a listed subscription price of $12 per year per website.