Antispam Bee 3.0, beta 1 – we’re almost there
Well, this one took us a while. Getting Antispam Bee version 3.0 on the road was a years-long effort, and none of us would have expected it to take this long. Properly kicking off at CloudFest Hackathon in 2022, with plenty of hours of scattered contribution here and there. But now we’re very close to releasing a final v3. We just need a little help from all of you to get there. Help test this new version of Antispam Bee, the privacy-first, open-source spam protection plugin for WordPress.
So, what’s actually new?
v3 is an important milestone for us. The big change is somewhat under the hood. It has a completely rebuilt engine: spam checks are now modular rules, and post processors decide what happens to a flagged comment, which makes the whole plugin way easier to extend and finally opens the door for other plugins to hook into it. The settings page has been redesigned but stays true to Antispam Bee’s nature as a minimal and no-nonsense plugin. For developers, there are new filters (honeypot styling and supported reaction types, among others) so they can bend ASB to fit their setup.
Help us and check it out
This is a beta, and we’d love your help. Many of us have been running the alpha versions on our websites for years now, so we’re fairly confident we’re onto something. But before we ship v3 to everyone, we want to hear from you. Grab beta 1 from GitHub, try it on a test site, and tell if something breaks, what feels off, and what you love.
Get Antispam Bee v3 beta.1 from GitHub →
Over the years, Antispam Bee has been carried by a huge number of people. Everyone who’s written code, filed an issue, translated a string, or simply kept it running on their site. To all of you: thank you. ❤️