CleanTalk Cloud Anti-Spam

CleanTalk Cloud Anti-Spam is a premium cloud service used with the CleanTalk anti-spam extension for WordPress. It checks supported activity against a global spam detection network, so visitors can submit forms and comments without solving CAPTCHA puzzles.

Screen comments, forms and shop activity

Comment protection covers native WordPress comments, Jetpack comments and other comment plugins. Settings can move detected spam to the Spam or Trash folder, block it silently or delete it. The extension can also check existing comments and customers for spam, and automatically approve comments it identifies as legitimate.

Form checks include Contact Form 7, WPForms, Elementor Forms, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms, Formidable Forms, Forminator and Ninja Forms. CleanTalk also checks registrations, logins, contact messages, subscriptions, bookings, polls, surveys and search forms. Enable the external forms option to protect forms that send data to services such as MailChimp.

For online stores, CleanTalk filters spam registrations, reviews and fake orders. The supplied information identifies WooCommerce support and compatibility with WooCommerce 2.1 and later. Other listed integrations include Asgaros Forum, bbPress, Brevo, Easy Digital Downloads, Events Manager and Everest Forms.

Review and control incoming data

Real-time email validation checks whether an address is real or fake. Settings can block disposable and temporary addresses, and filter submissions by language, country, network or stop words. Private IP and email lists let site owners block selected senders.

The Anti-Spam Log and per-website analytics display checked requests and whether they were accepted or blocked. CleanTalk can also scan existing comments and user accounts for spam.

Block bots and protect contact details

SpamFireWall can block known active spam bots before they load site pages. Anti-Flood and Anti-Crawler options help control unwanted bot activity. Well-known good bots, including AI crawlers, are allowed by default; site owners can block individual bots through private lists.

Contact-data encoding helps keep published email addresses and phone numbers from being harvested by bots. The Real Person Badge identifies commenters CleanTalk recognizes as legitimate and can automatically approve their comments.

Setup and service

Install and activate the WordPress plugin, connect it to the cloud service with an access key, then choose the protection settings. CleanTalk works with WordPress cache add-ons and content delivery networks, including Cloudflare. For Cloudflare traffic, it uses other anti-spam tests instead of checking Cloudflare IP addresses against its blacklist.

The cloud service includes a free trial, followed by a stated price of $12 per year per site.