Akismet vs Easy Property Listings
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| Feature | Akismet v5.7.2 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details | Easy Property Listings v3.5.28 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.7/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 5M+ | 5,000+ |
| Last updated | August 18, 2026 | October 14, 2026 |
| Editions | Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection · Akismet paid plan ($) | Easy Property Listings · Easy Property Listings add-ons ($) |
| Pros | Checks comments and contact form submissions against a shared spam database; Works with Contact Form 7 and Gravity Forms; Stats through a dashboard widget and REST endpoints | Separate listing types for residential, rental, commercial, land and rural; Search, map and open-home shortcodes and widgets; Contact enquiries stored and managed in the admin; Core plugin is free to start with |
| Cons | Needs an Akismet API key from akismet.com; Commercial sites must buy a paid plan; Submitted content is sent to Akismet for checking | Many features need paid add-ons with a licence key; Map shortcode loads Google Maps; Support for the free core is not offered on the WordPress.org forums |
| Mentioned in our posts | 2 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Checks comments before they are saved, Spam checks for Gravity Forms and Contact Form 7 submissions, Scheduled deletion of old spam and orphaned comment meta, Block statistics dashboard widget, REST endpoints for key, settings and stats, Webhook endpoint for Akismet account updates, Stats ability for the WordPress Abilities API | Residential, rental, commercial, land, rural and business listing types, Listing search shortcode and widget, Map shortcode for listings, Contact capture form and enquiry records, Open home listing shortcode, Property gallery and recent property widgets, Business listing category taxonomy, Licence keys for paid add-ons ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| Plugins | Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Jetpack | Easy Property Listings add-on store ($) |
| Other | Akismet | Google Maps |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | 6.0 |
| Requires PHP | 7.2 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | rest.akismet.com | easypropertylistings.com.au |
| Shortcodes | — | 14 |