CleanTalk Anti-Spam set up on Joomla 2.5

Important: Since official support for Joomla 2.5 has ended, this plugin has been discontinued. If you are running Joomla 3.x or higher, please install the updated version of the plugin from here:

Joomla 3.x-6.x

Anti-Spam plugin for Joomla 2.5

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Common:

Keep Anti-Spam logs for 45 days
Blocking visitors by country
Blocking by stop-words
Blocking by language
Custom server response
Form Validation Notice
Additional email address for notifications about spam events
Delegating access to the CleanTalk Dashboard
Anti-Spam Event Log
Checking email for existence
Filtering disposable emails
Notifications about filtering events on the site

Anti-Spam:

Personal black and white lists for Anti-Spam service
Check existing users and comments for spam
Manage spam comments
Protection of contact forms, registration forms, comments
RSForms Protection
JComments Protection

SpamFireWall Option:

Personal SpamFireWall Black & White Lists

Installation Guide

Go to your Anti-Spam Dashboard

Make a backup of the site files and database!
Download the plugin.
Select archive with plugin and run installation in the menu Extensions -> Install / Uninstall

Go to plugin settings: Extensions -> Plugin Manager -> Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. In plugin settings press "Get access key automatically" button. Admin email will be used for registration.

If an error occurs, click the link to get a key manually. Fill in the easy registration form and you will receive your key.

Enter key in its field, save settings.

Write a dummy comment, dummy registration, or dummy contact message with email stop_email@example.com. You should see the plugin respond, like in the screenshot.

To test if SpamFireWall is working just add /?sfw_test_ip=10.10.10.10 to your site name. Example www.yoursitename.domain/?sfw_test_ip=10.10.10.10 (you must see blocking screen)

Attention! You should test SFW with incognito mode switched on. To enable incognito mode press Ctrl+Shift+N for Chrome, Opera and Safari browsers; press Ctrl+Shift+P for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge.

Exclusions for some pages of sites

Open the file "custom_config.php" from directory /plugins/system/antispambycleantalk
There are lines:

Exclusion for URL:

// Exclude urls from spam_check. List them separated by commas

private $cleantalk_url_exclusions = '';

Exclusion for fields:

//Excludes fields from filtering. List them separated by commas

private $cleantalk_fields_exclusions = '';

For example: If you need to except these URLs:

example.com/some/thing
example.com/some/one
example.com/some/body

You should add this:

private $cleantalk_url_exclusions = 'some';

Make note, that you can add multiple URLs separated by commas:

private $cleantalk_url_exclusions = 'Url1','Url2','Url3';

How to Add Website to CleanTalk Anti-Spam Dashboard

Please, use this guide to add a website to CleanTalk Anti-Spam Dashboard: https://cleantalk.org/help/add-website

Congratulations. Anti-Spam is installed!

Please go to Dashboard to see the Anti-Spam status, add new websites or manage existing ones!

Please check your email to get account password.

Create an account

Your CleanTalk Dashboard