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(removed from WordPress’ plugins list, see below)
www.redsandmarketing.com/plugins/wp-spamshield-anti-spam/ (dead) ^[ 1 ] was www.redsandmarketing.com/plugins/wp-spamshield/ (not archived)

A spam protector that replaces Askismet.

• Abandoned — Dead, and the developers were dogpiled into closing, but the code still works.

Buy WP-SpamShield on codecanyon and have automatic updates using the Envato Market WordPress Plugin

I knew WordPress were a bunch of cunts, but I didn’t know how big.

• https://wptavern.com/wp-spamshield-plugin-removed-from-wordpress-org-author-plans-to-pull-all-plugins-from-the-directory

• www.redsandmarketing.com/blog/wp-spamshield-removed-wordpress-org-directory-without-cause/ (gone and not archived?)

Now I’m beginning to understand the other developers I’ve read. I’ll think about migrating away from WordPress after I’ve finished my current sweep of imports. So, like, not any time soon.

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• 2021-11-15 – Replaced by WordPress Zero Spam
• 2019-11-19 — Holy crap I’m getting spam.. re-activating this.
• 2019-11-18 — replaced with Bad Behavior

• 2018-03-07 – (version not recorded) on WordPress 4.9.4, with PHP 5.6.33

  • It’s still working fine.

• 2017-11-12 — Replaced Askismet.

Usage and troubleshooting ∞

An active PHP session was detected ∞

https://blog.spiralofhope.com/wp-admin/site-health.php

An active PHP session was detected

A PHP session was created by a session_start() function call. This interferes with REST API and loopback requests. The session should be closed by session_write_close() before making any HTTP requests.

2021-08-14 — This is annoying enough to want to stop using this; I’ll do that later.

Alternatives ∞

• Askismet