Once installed the plugin will simply randomize the names of the in the comments form on your blog and reject comments that are sent to the WordPress field names, or where bots have submitted data to the honeypot fields..
What this means for spammers is that they have to do quite lot more work to send spam to your website.
Or they may have to resort to using humans to send spam to your website.
Names of fields are randomized every night at 12 00, Submissions to WordPress field names are deleted, Honeypot fields added to comments form, WooCommerce support...
Browse the code, check out SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS...
Set version to 4.4 as the above fix may cause issues on earlier versions of WP, but I don't have time to test so safer to prevent Unspam updates to anything < WP4.4. 1.4.
Fixed minor bug that could be exploited to circumvent some of the protection that was in place..
Changed the scheme for randomized fields to make them legitimate page IDs..
Modified the hiding of the fields to use CSS instead of embedded styles to make it harder to detect honeypots..
Removed 'Field names will update next time post page with comments enabled is viewed message by default, can be re-enabled by appending unspam-rmvmsg=showfieldupdatemessage to URL.
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