Description

Tired of spam bots in your WordPress and ClassicPress website? Do you want to get rid of false registrations and other spammy nonsense? Don’t wan’t to use a clumsy and user-unfriendly Captcha? Don’t want to use a Captcha from Google or other big-tech company period?

Meet No-Bot Registration, easy to use, superior protection without making it hard for your visitors. Easily blacklist (partial) email addresses and domains so they can no longer register an account.

Create one or more questions and a set of possible answers for them and visitors have to answer your question when they register.
If they answer wrong, they get denied their account.

Questions can be as simple as “1 + 1”, with possible answers being 1, one or uno. That way you can plan for eventualities and how people interpret your question.

Features

Protect registration forms
Protect the WooCommerce checkout form if you let people register from there
Protect your blog 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

I need help with this plugin: Check out my Support system
This is cool, do you have more plugins?: Yep, check out my website AJdG Solutions

Reviews

mrwolfinformatica January 3, 2025 1 reply

It’s the only plugin that correctly filters USERNAMES. Other plugins claim to filter, but they only work for emails, not usernames or both like this one. Congrats! P.S.: You could consolidate all the information from your other plugins, but that’s honestly the only (sorry) negative thing I can say about your creation 🙂

dickso2 November 7, 2024

Great Plugin, Love it.

nasikseva October 14, 2023

100% Simple & Best Plugin to stop spam bot login. Many Many Thanks for this Free Plugin. Previously I was using Cleantalk Plugin…. as soon as I Uninstall Cleantalk Pluggin.. My website was bombarded with boat logins.

ksteele36 April 3, 2023 2 replies

you should actually read the REVIEW…. that was NOT a request for support.

kloader04 February 19, 2023 2 replies

I found, I tried it. It immediately stopped the bots fake sign-ups. Very simple set-up as well. Thank you!!!! Kevin

Andrew1977 December 28, 2022 2 replies

Fantastic plugin, with great support!

Read all 25 reviews

Contributors & Developers

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

Arnan de Gans

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

Translate “No-Bot Registration” into your language.

Interested in development?

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

Changelog

2.3.1 – April 14, 2025

[fix] Username blacklist not saving as array on some installations
[fix] Double plugin header

2.3 – April 11, 2025

[tested] with WordPress 6.8
[change] Dashboard tweaks
[update] Updated dashboard layout
[update] Updated underlying save code
[update] Action links

2.2 – April 10, 2025

[fix] Username blacklist not always saving correctly
[update] Better filter for email block list keywords
[update] Added .xyz and .ws to default email block list
[update] Reorganized how default email block list is set up when plugin activates
[change] Dashboard tweaks

2.1.2 – March 4, 2025

[tested] with WordPress 6.7
[update] Action links

2.1.1 – July 7, 2024

[removed] Classic Commerce support
[updated] Readme

2.1 – 17 June, 2024

[new] Visual error when a question has no answers
[fix] deleting questions now works
[fix] PHP Fatal error when a question has no answers
[i18n] Updated no-bot-registration.pot
[updated] readme.txt & Action links

2.0.1 – 8 March, 2024

[new] POT file for translations
[fix] settings of extra blacklist settings not saving
[fix] extra blacklist settings defaulting to ‘on’ if not set

2.0 – 19 February, 2024

[new] username blacklist
[new] username and email restrictions
[new] nonce protections to settings forms
[new] basic config check

1.9.1 – 5 February, 2023

[new] missing ABSPATH in plugin file

1.9 – 31 January, 2023

[updated] dashboard sections
[updated] support links
[removed] help tabs

1.8.2 – 2 January, 2023

[fix] better check for filtering comments/registrations
[tweak] replaced alias functions with actual functions
[tweak] minor code cleanups

1.8.1 – 30 December, 2022

[fix] excempting editors and admins on field check
[fix] excluding non-protected fields from field check

1.8 – 22 October, 2022

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

1.7.12 – 21 October, 2022

[fix] support links
[fix] compatibility info
[fix] plugin links

1.7.11 – 18 October, 2022

[new] 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
[new] 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

[removed] unused assets
Dashboard tweaks
Compatibility update

1.2 – 14 May, 2017

Dashboard tweaks

1.1 – 19 April, 2017

[fix] security field on my-account page of WooCommerce
Improved WooCommerce compatibity
Dashboard tweaks

1.0 – 24 February, 2017

First release