AAntispam Bee: version, compatibility and updates

Antispam Bee is a WordPress plugin with 700,000+ active installs. The current version on WordPress.org is 2.11.13, last updated on 23 August 2026.

Facts from WordPress.org

Does Antispam Bee work with WordPress 7.2?

Antispam Bee says it was tested up to WordPress 7.1.4. It does not yet say it has been tested with WordPress 7.2. See the full WordPress 7.2 compatibility list.

What the plugin says about itself

Say Goodbye to comment spam on your WordPress blog or website. Antispam Bee blocks spam comments and trackbacks effectively, without captchas and without sending personal information to third party services. It is free of charge, ad-free and 100% GDPR compliant. Feature/Settings Overview Trust approved commenters. Trust commenters with a Gravatar. Consider the comment time. Allow comments only in a certain language. Block or allow commenters from certain countries. Treat BBCode links as spam. Use regular expressions. Search local spam database for commenters previously marked as spammers. Notify admins by e-mail about incoming spam. Delete existing spam after n days. Limit approval to comments/pings (will delete other comment types). Select spam indicators to send comments to deletion directly. Optionally exclude trackbacks and pingbacks from spam detection. Optionally spam-check comment…

Newest changelog entry

2.11.13 Enhancement: New filter antispam_bee_honeypot_styles to change the styles of the honeypot field Fix: Escape the URL of the settings link (Thanks @thisismyurl!) Fix: Strip tags in the spam notification email the WordPress way (Thanks @thisismyurl!) Fix: Show the plugin update notice again (Thanks @thisismyurl!) Fix: Reject more invalid paths for the spam log file (Thanks @thisismyurl!) Fix: Return a boolean from the mobile theme check (Thanks @thisismyurl!) Tweak: Use the WordPress function for the word count type Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 7.1 2.11.12 Fix: Fatal error in the dashboard spam counter (Thanks @robertstaddon!) 2.11.11 Enhancement: Add shorturl.fm spam pattern 2.11.10 Fix: remove build-tool warnings from minified Javascript and CSS resources 2.11.9 Tweak: Improved compatibility with unquoted HTML attributes in comment forms Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 7.0 2.11.8 Tweak: Minor code changes and housekeeping Tweak: Add link to Patchstack in readme Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.8 2.11.7 Tweak: Use SCRIPT_NAME instead of REQUEST_URI to check path Fix: Remove add_reasons_to_defaults() from general initialization for better WordPress 6.7 compatibility Maintenance: Tested up to WordPress 6.7 2.11.6 Fix: Delete missed out option on uninstall (Thanks @okvee!) Tweak: Minor i18n improvements (Thanks Pedro!) Tweak: Minor code changes and housekeeping Tweak: Updated dependencies 2.11.5 IMPORTANT: If you use the country check and are behind a proxy

Recent releases

Days are when each version's tag was created in WordPress.org's code repository.

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