=== 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: 5.2.4
Stable tag: 6.0.2
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 millions of known 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 millions 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 customize 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 Character Blocking. Option to individually activate russian, chinese, asian, arabic characters, immediately blocks comments that use those characters
* 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 and safe website seal for commerce and sales
* Spam Master includes several optional email reports and warnings to keep you informed
* 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 $11 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/)
* [Search Threat DB](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/search-threat/)
* [New Threats](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/new-threats/)
* [Top Threats](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/top-10-threats/)
* [RBL Cluster Status](https://spammaster.techgasp.com/rbl-servers-status/)

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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://www.techgasp.com/downloads/spam-master-license/)
* 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://www.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 ==

= 6.0.2 =
* upgrader_process_complete to run 6.x version updates


= 6.0.1 =
* Fixing tables creation on plugin activation
* In case of trouble manually deactivate / activate the plugin for force table creation.

= 6.0.0 =
* Implementing new database structure
* Adding new spam buffer / threats database
* Adding new plugin page to manage spam buffer / threats
* Adding new transients database
* Adding new plugin page to manage transients
* Adding new whitelist exemption database
* Adding new plugin page to manage whitelist exemption
* Adding new plugin analytics page to manage Statistics, Firewall, Registrations, Comments and Logs
* Database calls restructure
* New install / uninstall options
* Combining and reducing crons
* Fixing spam_master_cache_proxie warning
* Adding Spam Buffer check to Contact Form 7
* Adding daily automatic clean-up to Registrations Logs (by month) to Protection Tools page - Clean-up
* Adding daily automatic clean-up to Comments Logs (by month) to Protection Tools page - Clean-up
* Adding daily automatic clean-up to Contact-Form 7 Logs (by month) to Protection Tools page - Clean-up
* Adding daily automatic clean-up to Woocomerce Logs (by month) to Protection Tools page - Clean-up
* Adding daily automatic clean-up to System Logs (by month) to Protection Tools page - Clean-up
* API improvements
* PHP 7.3 Ready!
* New plugin paths
* New protection Lists
* Extra Protection Tools
* Adding daily automatic clean-up

= 5.6.0 =
* Version 5.6 contained 10 releases (5.6.0, 5.6.1, 5.6.2, 5.6.3, 5.6.4, 5.6.5, 5.6.6, 5.6.7, 5.6.8, 5.6.9).
* For more info please check the changelog online.

= 5.5 =
* Version 5.5 contained 10 releases (5.5.0, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.4, 5.5.5, 5.5.6, 5.5.7, 5.5.8, 5.5.9).
* For more info please check the changelog online.

= 5.4 =
* Version 5.4 contained 10 releases (5.4.0, 5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.4.3, 5.4.4, 5.4.5, 5.4.6, 5.4.7, 5.4.8, 5.4.9).
* For more info please check the changelog online.

= 5.3 =
* Version 5.3 contained 9 releases (5.3, 5.3.1, 5.3.2, 5.3.5, 5.3.6, 5.3.7, 5.3.8, 5.3.9, 5.3.10).
* For more info please check the changelog online.

= 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.

= 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.

= 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.

= 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.

= 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.

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


== Upgrade Notice ==

= 6.0 =
* IMPORTANT Stable Release, if you helped us test the Plugin, upgrade to Stable release
* Version 6 is currently being developed, please check logs here.

= 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