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FluentComments replaces the WordPress comment form with a fast, modern, AJAX powered one, and it stops comment spam before it ever reaches your moderation queue.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Comments post without a page reload. Replies thread properly. Spam is blocked by several layers working together, so your readers never have to solve a CAPTCHA. And every email your site sends because somebody commented, whether that email goes to the commenter, the post author or you, can be rewritten in your own words with your own logo and colors.<\/p>\n\n FluentComments works on classic themes, block (FSE) themes and page builders. Every feature is free. There is no pro version, no upsell and no paid add-on.<\/strong> The whole plugin is open source on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n WordPress comments are a genuinely good feature buried under a form from 2010 and a spam problem that most people solve by turning comments off. FluentComments fixes both halves: how comments look and feel, and the flood of junk behind them.<\/p>\n\n Spam is scored, not guessed at. A borderline comment is held for moderation<\/strong>, and only a conclusive failure is turned away. Nobody is asked to identify a traffic light.<\/p>\n\n FluentComments owns every notification your site sends about a comment, and puts them all on one screen:<\/p>\n\n The settings screen puts the WordPress Discussion options that actually matter next to the plugin's own: the moderation word lists, the link limit, threading depth, who may comment, and closing comments on old posts.<\/p>\n\n They are read and written in place<\/strong> as real WordPress options, never copied. This screen and Settings \u203a Discussion can never disagree with each other.<\/p>\n\n Assume every page on your site is served from a full page cache to somebody else. FluentComments does.<\/p>\n\n A small, documented extension API that works identically on both front ends:<\/p>\n\n Every comment goes through No pro version. No locked features. No \"upgrade to unlock\". Every feature described on this page is in the plugin you are about to install, and the source is on GitHub<\/a> under GPLv2.<\/p>\n\n FluentComments is fully open source. If you want to contribute, or just report a bug, you are very welcome. The repository is on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n If your theme is a block (FSE) theme<\/strong>, there is one extra step. Open the Site Editor, edit the template your posts render through, replace the Comments<\/strong> block with the FluentComments<\/strong> block, and save. Or drop the It is free, and there is no pro version. Every feature listed on this page is in the free plugin: the spam protection, all five emails, the template designer and the block. Nothing is held back, and the whole thing is GPLv2 open source on GitHub.<\/p><\/dd>\n By making the submission itself expensive to fake. Posting a comment requires a short lived, cryptographically signed token that is issued in a separate request and tied to a session cookie, so it cannot be replayed or reused. On top of that there is a honeypot field with an install specific name, a minimum time between opening the form and submitting it, and rate limiting keyed per session with a per IP backstop. Anything posted straight to the default WordPress endpoint without our fields is refused outright. Suspicious submissions are scored and held for moderation rather than thrown away, and every threshold can be changed with a filter.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. FluentComments is built so your readers never have to prove they are human. The checks happen between the browser and your server, not in front of the person trying to leave a comment.<\/p><\/dd>\nFluentComments at a glance<\/h4>\n\n
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\u26a1 Instant, AJAX powered commenting<\/h4>\n\n
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fluent_comments\/form_fields<\/code>: render your own fields into the form<\/li>\nfluent_comments\/validate_submission<\/code>: reject a submission with a WP_Error<\/code><\/li>\nfluent_comments\/comment_data<\/code>: adjust the comment before it reaches WordPress<\/li>\nfluent_comments\/spam_score<\/code>: nudge the score up or down<\/li>\nfluent_comments\/before_process<\/code> and fluent_comments\/after_added_comment<\/code>: act around the insert<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nwp_handle_comment_submission()<\/code>, the same function wp-comments-post.php<\/code> uses, so core's validation, moderation rules and comment_post<\/code> hook all behave exactly as they always did.<\/p>\n\n100% free, forever<\/h4>\n\n
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Is FluentComments really free? Is there a pro version?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How does FluentComments stop comment spam without a CAPTCHA?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Do I still need reCAPTCHA or a CAPTCHA plugin?<\/h3><\/dt>\n