bbPress Support Forums » Topic: Best way to prevent SPAM registration?

Piya on "Best way to prevent SPAM registration?"

Piya — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:53:53 +0000

I've tried to install ReCAPTCHA plugin but bbpress can not block spam registration from bad guy.

How to completely change registor.php file ?

Rhys Wynne on "Best way to prevent SPAM registration?"

Rhys Wynne — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:55:22 +0000

Thanks CK :)

_ck_ on "Best way to prevent SPAM registration?"

_ck_ — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:53:50 +0000

rhyswynne I reminded Sam to approve your svn slot so it should be active now

Rhys Wynne on "Best way to prevent SPAM registration?"

Rhys Wynne — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:01:54 +0000

If you're familiar with ReCAPTCHA I've written a plugin that integrates this spam prevention tool with bbPress.

It's still waiting to go into the SVN, but you can download it here - http://www.gospelrhys.co.uk/plugins/bbpress-plugins/recaptcha-bbpress-plugin

I've tested this on a 0.9 site, and it's completely eliminated spam (since Sunday...at least!)

phaniraj01 on "Best way to prevent SPAM registration?"

phaniraj01 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:33:30 +0000

Renaming register.php may be very good idea..
Thanks _CK_

vanesta on "Best way to prevent SPAM registration?"

vanesta — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:08:24 +0000

You can't just stick with one way of spam registration prevention, might need to mix it up a bit overtime

Detective on "Best way to prevent SPAM registration?"

Detective — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:25:56 +0000

The .htaccess code redirects all POST requests to register.php to another url if the request doesn't have a referer from my own forum.

The code is originally from here: http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/spam-blogs-and-buddypress/

Michael3185 on "Best way to prevent SPAM registration?"

Michael3185 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:14:19 +0000

Cheers _ck_. I had a look at an online rewrite guide but my brain tried to crawl out of my ears.

Thion on "Best way to prevent SPAM registration?"

Thion — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:50:43 +0000

I'm using "Human Test for bbPress" with RC3 and it's working perfectly, spam bots has been stopped.

_ck_ on "Best way to prevent SPAM registration?"

_ck_ — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:12:29 +0000

What he has done is rename register.php to another name and therefore if any bot tries to directly access the register.php file, it's not human and bounced elsewhere.

It's a reasonably good idea. But it may break some plugins which can't detect if they are on the registration page if it's renamed.

Michael3185 on "Best way to prevent SPAM registration?"

Michael3185 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:15:40 +0000

@Detective; for a bit of a noob here, could you briefly explain what those .htaccess rewrites do please? (Wondering if I should add something like them).

Detective on "Best way to prevent SPAM registration?"

Detective — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:41:47 +0000

I also have this in my .htaccess:

# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .register\.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*ryuuko.cl.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.dii.uchile.cl/ [R=301,L]
# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

The dii.uchile.cl url is an internal joke :P

Arturo on "Best way to prevent SPAM registration?"

Arturo — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:23:01 +0000

i've it with latest rc3 and works without problem

frooyo on "Best way to prevent SPAM registration?"

frooyo — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:21:23 +0000

What's the best way to prevent spam user account registration?

I've tried the "Human Test for bbPress" plug-in but it seems to stop working with 1.0 RC.

Any other plug-ins out there that are a good way to prevent spam user account registeration?