Version: 0.8
Last Updated: 2010-1-18
Requires bbPress Version: 1.0 or higher
Compatible up to: trunk
bb-NoSpamUser blocks potential spammers from registering on your forum by checking with Stop Forum Spam for IP address, email address, and username.
The spam checks are cached for 7 days to lessen the load on Stop Forum Spam and your own server. Optionally, a reCAPTCHA can be shown to lesser spammers to allow false positives to be bypassed.
You can remove the need for PHP 5 and the XML feature by doing a simple preg_match instead. It will also be faster.
Note that file_get_contents for external URLs will fail on many shared hosts that block fopen and such for non-local files as it's a security concern. Instead you could use a central function to retrieve remote urls and fall back to CURL or fsockopen instead. If this was WordPress you could use the snoopy class, I think bbPress 1.0 (unfortunately) has snoopy too.
I am the admin and as soon as I activated the plugin it blocked me saying my username was in the spam forum..Hell no way! I went to check and it itsn't there, nor my site. I was looking exactly for something like this, but it does not work apparently.
I have the same problem with the plugin returning a positive response for "Admin".
My primary concern is that the plugin is checking not only on the register form, but also on the login form. I would prefer the plugin:
a) only block registration attempts, not login attempts
b) whitelist already-registered usernames
Optionally, it would be nice if the plugin could provide options to check for any/all of IP address, email address, and username, on any/all of register.php, login.php, and login-form.php.
Is this plugin still being actively maintained? I noticed that the wp-nospamuser plugin from which it was ported is at version 7.2, and was updated 2 months more recently than bb-nospamuser.
Whoa, I forgot this plugin existed!
I've added a setting that can be edited in the file to change how many instances of the username/email/ip being a spam user are required to block them, defaulting at 3.
Thanks for the update!
Can you put in a check into the plugin, to ensure that no registered usernames (e.g. "Admin") get blocked?
The same thing happened to me! As soon as I activated it, it kicked me off!
+1 on the admin bug. i am getting a ton of user spam and this would be a huGe help.
Same for me :(
Same here. After activation i´ll be kicked from my forum. :(
I recently upgraded to bb-n0-spam-user version 0.8, on bbPress 1.0.2.
When I did so, my register.php page started returning 500 internal server errors.
Any clue what the problem might be?
As a follow-up, I reverted back to no-spam-user version 0.7.1, and the problem disappeared. So, something in the change from 0.7.1 to 0.8 is causing the problem.
Can I also block IP adresses?
I entered my recaptcha public/private key and I don't see any recaptcha. Am I missing something?
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