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if deactivated, will content be saved.

  • @wilsonca

    Participant

    7 years, 10 months ago

    I have BBPress installed on our organization website. Unfortunately, we are getting a good number of spammers subscribing daily to the forum presumably looking to post backlinks. I have not figured out how to stop this except to deactivate the plugin. If I do that, will the content that is currently in the forums be saved. Will I be able to reactivate the plugin at a later date and have the content in tact? Better yet, is there a way to better screen subscribers to prevent spammers from subscribing.

    Thank you.

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  • @robin-w

    Moderator

    7 years, 10 months ago

    are you using askimet?

    @wilsonca

    Participant

    7 years, 10 months ago

    Yes, I’m using akismet but it doesn’t do any good for bbPress, unless there is a way to link it to the plugin that i don’t know about.

    @fuskeren

    Participant

    7 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Wiisonca,

    I used to have a lot of registration spammers, this plugin solved it for me:

    https://da.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-spamshield/

    I haven’t had an occurence in over 6 months.

    You can also go for the paid option, which also worked for me a couple of months before using wp-spamshield: https://da.wordpress.org/plugins/cleantalk-spam-protect/

    As a side note, deactivating bbpress does not remove data.

    @wilsonca

    Participant

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks for the info. I just downloaded the plugin. Sounds like it’s the answer to my problem. As an alternative, I might deactivate the bbpress plugin temporarily since no one is using it right now. You have been very helpful and I really appreciate it.

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