=== Spam Master ===
Contributors: TechGasp
Tags: firewall, spam, antispam, anti-spam, registration, hotmail, bot, captcha, comment, block registration, block user, login
Requires at least: 3.5
Tested up to: 4.8
Stable tag: 5.4.2
License: GPLv2 or later

Spam Master is the Ultimate Spam Protection plugin that blocks new user registrations and post comments with Real Time anti-spam lists.


== Description ==

Spam Master was born out of need to protect our website against constant malicious spam registrations and comments that affect the majority of wordpress websites. We did it the TechGasp way... coded a brand new, clean and fast plugin that will make your professional wordpress website safe and clean.

Spam Master protects Wordpress based websites from thousands of know spam emails, domains, ip's and words by blocking user registrations or post comments. Uses RBL technology (real time block lists) constantly being updated.

The problem facing spam targeted wordpress blogs is that most of the spam registrations or comments are done by a mixture of "bots" robots and human spamming. Most of the spam registration systems fail including captcha precisely because the human factor kicks in during registration, also these captcha systems "push away" real user registrations and can injure your professional, commercial, sales based website income.

The plugin comes packed with automated Spam Learning function that will make your wordpress blog a fighting spam enforcer by providing registration ip's and emails for analysis and spam lists inclusion.

Very few plugins will actually show the statistics we packed into spam master. Protection Level, Total Website Users, Total Spam Users Blocked, Total Number of Comments, Total Number of Spam Blocked Comments, Total Number of Approved Comments, Total Number of Pending Comments, Total Number of Trashed Comments, Total Number of Threats you are Protected from, Spam Learning, Status of RBL Spam Servers, User Registrations List with (user id, registration date, user status, name, username, and email) and Comments List with (comment date, comment author, author email, author website, comment content, comment status).

Fast loading, Spam Master is modular... it only loads what is needed to keep your website secure and clean.

**Makes no use of Javascript or Ajax to keep your website fast and conflicts free**

**Spam Master... keeps your professional wordpress clean**

**MAIN FEATURES:**

* Protects Wordpress from User Registrations (spamming bots, users or both)
* Protects Wordpress Comments from (spamming bots, users or both)
* Protects Wordpress Pages and Posts from malicious trackbacks (spamming bots, users or both)
* Spam Master marks as spam comments wrongly cleared as safe by akismet, check screenshots
* Spam Master checks for emails, domains, ip's and words
* Uses real time scan from thousands of known spamming sources (effectively blocks those nasty hotmail, live, msn and outlook registrations)
* Includes Statistical information to keep your life easy
* Spam Master Learning makes your Wordpress an Anti-Spam enforcer by collecting data for analysis
* Spam Master allows you to customise the frontend blocked registration message
* Spam Master allows you to view a week of blocked registrations (date and email) and export the data as csv file. Data gets auto-deleted after 7 days to keep your database light
* Spam Master allows you to hide the website field from your theme comments form
* Spam Master includes the famous Google reCAPTCHA and Invisible reCAPTCHA on registration, login or comments pages and posts
* Spam Master includes Honeypot fields for registration, login or comments forms
* Spam Master includes Firewall technology, blocking misfits before they even enter your website
* Spam Master includes Signatures
* Spam Master includes a brand new automatic Threat Alert Level, it's an easy and interactive way for you to know if your website is being targeted by spammers and the level of intensity or danger of this targeting
* Spam Master includes Spam Activity Probability, in conjunction with the Alert Level, Spam Master advanced detection heuristic analytics will provide you with an approximated percentage of all activity in your website
* Spam Master includes a bunch of useful widgets
* Spam Master is Contact Form 7 Ready. Uses pro-active scan of your email contact form before triggering any mail function
* Spam Master is Woocommerce Ready. Eliminates all credit card fraud by preventing known sources of spam from registering via woocommerce registration. It also includes wooommerce spam signatures.
* Spam Master is PHP 7 ready
* Spam Master is IPv6 ready

> Free Trial then $8 per year

> Spam Master is a free plugin which works with the premium non-free Real Time Block List Servers (RBLs). This plugin provides a service [software as a service wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service).

> Take a free Tour [Trial License](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/wp-login.php?action=register)
> or,
> get a full [RBL License](https://wordpress.techgasp.com/spam-master/) for peanuts a year.

**ONLINE DEMO**

* [Demo Link](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/)
* [Top 20 Spam Countries](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/top-20-spam-countries/)
* [Search Threat DB](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/search-threat/)
* [Last 10 Threats](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/last-10-threats/)
* [Top 10 Registration Threats](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/top-10-registration-threats/)
* [Top 10 Comment Threats](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/top-10-comment-threats/)
* [Top 10 Trackback Threats](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/top-10-trackback-threats/)
* [Top 10 IP Threats](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/top-10-ip-threats/)
* [Top 10 Email Threats](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/top-10-email-threats/)
* [RBL Cluster Status](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/rbl-servers-status/)

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* For professional wordpress websites
* Tested for fast page load times and SEO
* Errors and conflicts free. NO JAVASCRIPT or AJAX
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== Installation ==

1. Use the Wordpress Installer, Updater.
2. Activate in the "Plugins" admin panel.
3. Visit the "Plugin Page Menu | Spam Master" to configure settings.
4. [Spam Master Documentation](https://wordpress.techgasp.com/spam-master-documentation/)


== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Issues RBL License =
* Please update to latest version of Spam Master
* Patiently wait for your license to be activate and replicated by RBL Servers

= I DON'T HAVE A LICENSE =
* Get a license here for peanuts, $8 year [License](https://wordpress.techgasp.com/spam-master/)
* or
* take a free tour [Trial License](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/wp-login.php?action=register)

= Need More Help =
* [Spam Master Documentation](https://wordpress.techgasp.com/spam-master-documentation/)
* [Support](https://wordpress.techgasp.com/support/)


== Screenshots ==

1. Main Plugin Menu
2. Top Spam Countries - Statistics
3. Settings Page
4. Statistics Page
5. Firewall Statistics
6. Firewall Block Page
7. Wordpress Registration. Spam Master with re-CAPTCHA plus Honeypot traps
8. Spam Master Marking Comment as SPAM from Registered User, Spam Master marking Comment as SPAM after akismet cleared it
9. Top 10 Threats - Statistics


== Changelog ==

= 5.4.2 =
* Fixing expired and alert 3 email functions
* Trimming changelog
* Displaying total number of threats in Settings page after manual check does not need refresh
* Allowing inactivity checks
* Adding extra info and instructions to inactivities
* Adding extra info and instructions to malfunctions

= 5.4.1 =
* Contact Form 7 wp_strip_all_tags true. Type varchar 14
* Tweaking inactivity text
* Implementing Alert Level 3 email to warn blog admins if blog reaches that dangerous level
* Adding option to de-activate alert level 3 email in Protection Tools, Firewall Section
* Adding uninstall option of alert level 3 email
* Fixing multisite typo when setting general options
* Tweaking email functions

= 5.4.0 =
* Releasing stable version 5.4.0

= 5.3.10 =
* Adding Protected Against: Total number of threats protection in Settings page, alert level section
* Adding Protected Against icon 
* Extending Comment content to 400 chars in Spam Master Comments page display, user can easily read the comment and all data associated to it
* Adding boolean true to wp_strip_all_tags in learning comment function
* Statistics charts do not need number format, removing
* Adding Legend and title to charts
* Adding fixed points to line charts

= 5.3.9 =
* Adding number format in statistics page data display and graph
* Adding number format in firewall page graph
* Adding number format in registrations page graph
* Adding number format in comments page graph
* Editing the malfunctions texts
* Adding courtesy link in plugin footer

= 5.3.8 =
* Adding Woocommerce Registration checks
* Adding Woocommerce Registration and Login signatures
* Updating Protection Tools page to activate Woocommerce checks
* Tweaking Inactive text
* Adding display error to contact form 7

= 5.3.7 =
* Adds new important and cool features to Spam Master Buffer
* This version is all about managing your Spam Buffer in Protection Tools page Clean-Up section
* Adding option to bypass email spam buffer checks for frequent comment users that you know are safe commenters via ip or email.
* Whitelisting an email or ip will delete any entry (ip or email) from the spam buffer
* Adding whitelist to uninstall options
* Reintroducing strip all tags to learning content
* Tweaking Malfunction text

= 5.3.6 =
* Adding search threat db in firewall, registrations and comments page stats
* Adding stats icon
* Increasing to 350 chars the comments and contact form 7 learning functions
* Overkill stripping tags from learning content. Wordpress already doing it natively

= 5.3.5 =
* Lic function is stable, clean-up
* Splitting the learning function into registrations and comments
* Implementing new comments learning function that will also check the comment text alongside all other previous checks
* Implementing new contact form 7 learning function that will also check the comment text alongside all other previous checks
* Increasing spam buffer size
* Adding logScale to all Charts to keep high and low values in check range
* Fixing Firewall redirects

= 5.3.2 =
* Fixing Ip function in lic sender

= 5.3.1 =
* Start implementation of google Invisible reCAPTCHA
* Fixing Contact Form 7 buffer loop
* Fixing if ( ip or host ) are empty

= 5.3.0 =
* Adding Alert Level spam activity probability percentage to Settings page
* Adding Alert Level spam activity probability percentage Icons
* Adding Alert Level spam activity probability uninstall options
* Tweaking colors of Alert Level table
* Sanitizing input fields
* Adding api from other registration, comment and email forms plugins in Protection Tools page, Integrations
* Adding Contact Form 7 to Integrations in Protection Tools page (contact form 7 pro-active email scan before email function trigger)
* Addind Contact Form 7 to uninstall options
* Moving Recaptcha to Integrations in Protection Tools page
* Moving Honey to Integrations in Protection Tools page
* Adding dns_get_record

= 5.2 =
* Version 5.2 contained 10 releases (5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.5, 5.2.6, 5.2.7, 5.2.8, 5.2.9). For more info please check the changelog online.
* Adding bold styling to firewall and registration blocks
* Order firewall entry table by id
* Inverting spam checking for comments. IMPORTANT spam buffer is checked first
* Adding Learning Function to comment trackbacks
* Adding documentation & help to Protection Statuses
* Making sure TRIAL accepts Malfunction statuses

= 5.1 =
* Version 5.1 contained 11 releases (5.1, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3, 5.1.4, 5.1.5, 5.1.6, 5.1.7, 5.1.8, 5.1.9, 5.1.10, 5.1.11). For more info please check the changelog online.
* Multisite settings and license moved to each individual blog
* Multisite / Single registrations, better Spam Bot detection
* If empty Blog Admin replace with Blog Name in remote post
* Auto Trial License

= 5.0 =
* Version 5.0 contained 4 releases (5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3). For more info please check the changelog online.
* TechGasp Framework 5.0. Visit our website to check the new features packed into TechGasp Framework 5.
* API improvements
* Updater and License upgrade
* Wordpress 4.6.x Ready!
* PHP 7 Ready!
* Fixed unexpected ‘&&’ (T_BOOLEAN_AND) for some wordpress setups
* Fixed output generated before Headers sent
* New plugin paths and folder
* New protection Lists
* Extra Protection Tools
* Adding automatic buffer cleaning

= 4.0 =
* Version 4 contained 27 releases (4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.3, 4.3.1, 4.3.5, 4.3.6, 4.3.6.1, 4.3.6.2, 4.3.6.3, 4.3.6.4, 4.3.6.5, 4.4.0, 4.4.1.0, 4.4.1.1, 4.4.1.2, 4.4.1.3, 4.4.1.4, 4.4.1.5, 4.4.1.6, 4.4.1.7, 4.4.4, 4.4.5). For more info please check the changelog online.
* Redesigned Plugin Administrator With Main Root Plugin Link
* Redesigned Plugin Administrator With Plugin Sub Links
* Implementing Wordpress Tables

= 3.0 =
* Version 3 contained 1 releases (3.0). For more info please check the changelog online.
* TechGasp Framework V2 Implementation

= 2.0 =
* Version 2 contained 5 releases (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.4.5). For more info please check the changelog online.
* Stable release
* Adding User Management for future enhancements
* Fixing warnings and other stuff

= 1.0 =
* Alpha release
* Adding Buttons
* Start coding


== Upgrade Notice ==

= 5.0 =
* IMPORTANT Stable Release, if you helped us test the Plugin, upgrade to Stable release
* Version 5 is currently being developed, please check logs here.

= 4.0 =
* IMPORTANT Stable Release, if you helped us test the Plugin, upgrade to Stable release
* Version 4 contained 27 releases (4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.3, 4.3.1, 4.3.5, 4.3.6, 4.3.6.1, 4.3.6.2, 4.3.6.3, 4.3.6.4, 4.3.6.5, 4.4.0, 4.4.1.0, 4.4.1.1, 4.4.1.2, 4.4.1.3, 4.4.1.4, 4.4.1.5, 4.4.1.6, 4.4.1.7, 4.4.4, 4.4.5). For more info please check the changelog online.

= 3.0 =
* IMPORTANT Stable Release, if you helped us test the Plugin, upgrade to Stable release
* Version 3 contained 1 releases (3.0). For more info please check the changelog online

= 2.0 =
* IMPORTANT Stable Release, if you helped us test the Plugin, upgrade to Stable release
* Version 2 contained 5 releases (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.4.5). For more info please check the changelog online.

= 1.0 =
* IMPORTANT Alpha Release, if you helped us test the Plugin, upgrade to Beta