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?
Best way to prevent SPAM registration?
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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 REGISTRATIONThe dii.uchile.cl url is an internal joke :P
Posted 8 months ago # -
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ModeratorWhat 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.
Posted 8 months ago # -
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/
Posted 8 months ago # -
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!)
Posted 8 months ago #
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