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• 14 posts
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• Started 2 years ago by frooyo
• Latest reply from Piya
• This topic is not resolved

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• bbpress spam
• bbPress Spammers
• registration
• spam
• spam registration
• user account

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Best way to prevent SPAM registration?

1. • 
   • frooyo
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   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?
2. • 
   • Arturo
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   i've it with latest rc3 and works without problem
3. • 
   • Detective
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   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
4. • 
   • Michael3185
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   @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).
5. • 
   • _ck_
   • Moderator

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   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.
6. • 
   • Thion
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm using "Human Test for bbPress" with RC3 and it's working perfectly, spam bots has been stopped.
7. • 
   • Michael3185
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Cheers _ck_. I had a look at an online rewrite guide but my brain tried to crawl out of my ears.
8. • 
   • Detective
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years 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/
9. • 
   • vanesta
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   You can't just stick with one way of spam registration prevention, might need to mix it up a bit overtime
10. • 
    • phaniraj01
    • Member

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Renaming register.php may be very good idea..
    Thanks _CK_
11. • 
    • Rhys Wynne
    • Member

    • Posted 2 years 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!)
12. • 
    • _ck_
    • Moderator

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    rhyswynne I reminded Sam to approve your svn slot so it should be active now
13. • 
    • Rhys Wynne
    • Member

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Thanks CK :)
14. • 
    • Piya
    • Member

    • Posted 1 year ago #

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

    How to completely change registor.php file ?

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