Spam prevention and comment moderation
Spam prevention is a prominent strand of the Comments category, reflected in both leading plugin names and related tags.
- Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection: The category’s most-installed plugin has 5 million active installs and an excellent rating supported by many reviews.
- Antispam Bee and Anti-Spam, Spam FireWall by CleanTalk: Both are widely installed, with 700,000 and 200,000 active installs respectively; each has an excellent rating.
- Related tags: Spam appears alongside 282 plugins, compared with 43 for anti-spam, 36 for antispam, 34 for moderation, and 25 for security.
Comment controls and participation
Plugin names in this category point to options for managing comment availability and encouraging participation.
Disable Comments is among the leading entries, with 1 million active installs and an excellent rating based on a moderate number of reviews. No Page Comment has 10,000 active installs and an excellent rating, though it was last updated 11 months ago.
Subscribe to Comments also has 10,000 active installs; its name signals a participation-focused role. Related tags include comment (104 plugins), posts (39), and email (30), showing adjacent areas represented in the category.
Comment services and display
Disqus Comment System and Gravatar Enhanced are established entries, with different adoption and rating profiles.
- Gravatar Enhanced: 100,000 active installs, an excellent rating based on few reviews, and an update this month.
- Disqus Comment System: 30,000 active installs, a poor rating based on a moderate number of reviews, and an update this month.
- Related tags: Admin is shared by 40 plugins and widget by 35, indicating nearby administrative and display-related groupings.
A broad category with concentrated adoption and limited recent updates
The category contains 977 plugins, but only a small number reach higher active-install thresholds.
Only 6 plugins have at least 100,000 active installs, and 12 have at least 10,000. The leading examples include Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection at 5 million installs with an excellent rating, Disable Comments at 1 million with an excellent rating, Antispam Bee at 700,000 with an excellent rating, and CleanTalk at 200,000 with an excellent rating.
Just 22% of category plugins were updated in the last year. That makes checking each plugin’s update recency a useful part of comparing options, even among entries with substantial adoption.