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Artiman Guard

Self-hosted form abuse protection, registration firewall, 404 bot shield and SEO crawl protection.

10+ active installsFree on WordPress.org
View on WordPress.orgSupport forum
Will this break my store?

What the WordPress.org registry says about keeping Artiman Guard running.

WordPress compatibility
Tested to 7.0.4 — 1 branch behind 7.1
Tested against the WordPress branch in use today.
Last updated
4 days ago
Requires PHP
7.4
Your host must be running at least this version.
Requires WordPress
6.2
Contributors
1
A single maintainer. Worth knowing if the plugin is load-bearing for your store.
10+ active installsWordPress.org reports installs in bands, not exact counts.
Maintenance & trust

Scored on how Artiman Guard is looked after — not on how many stores run it.

Well maintained
Not enough public feedback to put a confident number on this one. Little public feedback — score rests mostly on release activity. What we can see is below.
Maintenance
35 / 35
Updated 3 days ago.
WordPress compatibility
20 / 20
Tested to WP 7.0.4 (current).
Support responsiveness
Not enough data
Only 0 support thread(s) — not enough to judge.
Merchant satisfaction
Not enough data
No ratings yet.
Listing transparency
7 / 10
Provides: screenshots, description
2 of 5 measures had too little evidence to score. They are left out of the total rather than counted as zero — otherwise a plugin would be marked down for being small rather than for being poorly kept.Measured 2026-09-13 from the WordPress.org plugin registry.
Ratings

No one has rated this plugin on WordPress.org yet. That is a statement about the ratings page, not about the plugin — plenty of well-kept plugins never collect them.

Artiman Guard protects WordPress and WooCommerce forms without sending CAPTCHA data or security reports to an external service.

Protection layers include:

  • Local browser proof-of-work with a mathematical fallback.
  • One-time signed challenges, dynamic honeypots and form timing checks.
  • Local rate limiting and a managed IP blocklist.
  • Registration firewall, one-time registration permits and account quarantine.
  • Spam-username detection and registration-source monitoring.
  • Internal/external link classification for comments, product reviews and form submissions.
  • Writing-system checks with automatic site-language defaults and administrator overrides.
  • Content-risk scoring for repetition, advertising language, gibberish, disposable email, suspicious domains, invalid phone numbers and duplicate submissions.
  • Block, quarantine, suspicious and allow-with-flag decisions.
  • Review queues for comments, Elementor Pro Forms and Gravity Forms.
  • 404 scanner detection, sensitive-path protection and repeated-request blocking.
  • Internal broken-link reports, redirect suggestions and crawl-budget reports.
  • Soft-404 and suspicious-200 reporting.
  • Internal-search and WooCommerce-filter noindex protection.
  • WordPress login, registration, lost-password and comment protection.
  • WooCommerce login, registration and product-review protection.
  • Dedicated Elementor Pro Forms and Gravity Forms fields.
  • A local Security Center for suspicious events and managed IP blocks.
  • Persian translation and support for WordPress language packs.

Artiman Guard is designed to cooperate with WordPress Core, WooCommerce, Yoast SEO, Rank Math, AIOSEO and SEOPress. SEO directives owned by an active SEO plugin are not replaced.

Developer website: https://artimanweb.com/

Privacy

Artiman Guard does not send visitor data outside the website. When local reports are enabled, it stores the form context, result, reason, risk score, time, salted technical identifiers, and the IP address for suspicious or blocked activity. Routine successful checks are not stored. Security reports and temporary blocks expire automatically. A permanent IP block remains until a manager releases it.

The plugin registers WordPress personal-data exporter and eraser callbacks for locally stored security data.

Does the plugin contact an external CAPTCHA service?

No. Challenge generation, proof-of-work verification, reports and rate limiting are processed locally on the WordPress site.

Is the mathematical answer visible in the page source?

No. The answer is stored server-side in a short-lived, one-time challenge record. The signed browser token does not contain the answer.

How long are security reports stored?

The administrator can choose from 7 to 90 days. Expired records are removed automatically.

How can protection be disabled after an accidental lockout?

Add this line to wp-config.php:

define( 'ARTIMAN_GUARD_SAFE_MODE', true );

Remove the line or change it to false after correcting the settings.

Does it support WooCommerce?

Yes. It protects WooCommerce customer login, registration and product-review forms.

Does it support Elementor forms?

Yes. With Elementor Pro active, add the Artiman Guard field to the form. Validation runs in Elementor’s Ajax submission flow.

Does it support Gravity Forms?

Yes. Add the Artiman Guard field from Advanced Fields to each form that should be protected.

Does comment protection work with wpDiscuz and other comment plugins?

Yes, when the plugin submits comments through the standard WordPress comment API. WordPress comments and WooCommerce product reviews are inspected before they are stored. Custom systems that bypass the WordPress comment API must integrate with the artiman_guard_analyze_submission filter.

How are links and languages handled in comments?

Links to the current website and its subdomains are treated as internal. External links are marked as spam by default, while trusted external domains and the comment-author website check are configurable. Automatic language mode allows Persian/Arabic and Latin text on Persian or Arabic sites. Administrators can select other writing systems or disable the check.

Does it conflict with SEO plugins?

Artiman Guard uses provider-aware integration. It works with WordPress Core, Yoast SEO and Rank Math robots output, and defers robots control to AIOSEO or SEOPress when either plugin is active. Redirect cleanup is conservative and disabled by default after upgrading.

Categories
Forms & FAQSecurity & spamSEO
Plugin details
Version0.8.3
Last updated2026-09-10 8:06am GMT
Added2026-08-08
Requires WordPress6.2
Tested up to7.0.4
Requires PHP7.4
Tags on WordPress.org
anti-spam
forms
security
seo
woocommerce
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