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?
it is caughting the email addresses, not usernames....what should I do?
This plugin, like the road to hell is frustratingly promising but totally useless. The alarm bells started going off when it spammed the admin user and the 'users blocked' counter incremented every time I logged in.
Then came the registration page that would never submit, and of course I had to wonder if my email address was being sent to the central database each time.
Plugin permanently deleted.
Great job this is one of my favourite plugins
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