[Rich Pedley]

Captcha’s are a waste of time as so many of them have been hacked/cracked. Plus regular people hate them.

I’ve found that the following system worked well:

Akismet

My update to an old plugin (not yet redone for bbPress) which restricts the number of links, and characters that people can post (until they have x posts).

Plus user orientated report & hide spam – ie, if a post gets x reports it is hidden and marked for moderators to review.

So even if spam gets through, users can quickly help mop things up. but I don’t worry about people signing up at all.

[John James Jacoby]

The problem is an ongoing one that even Matt has blogged about in recent past. Part of the reason they’re able to pass the human test it because they might be humans registering real accounts and making real posts. WordPress.org, bbPress.org, and BuddyPress.org all suffer from a similar problem. I’m about sick of it though.

[Ramiuz]

Human test is not good enough no more.

This EXACT question and problem has been raised many times here the last months.

The best answer I can give you, which worked for me, is to combine Project Honey Pot, No Forum Spam, and reCaptcha.

Disable Human Test when using those three.

[Elias Schwerdtfeger]

Email addresses from user are always gmail

And lo.tso.fun.nyd.ots in the address before the @ — the same idiots spamming at me. And I changed the Human Test plugin code a little to get a larger range of numbers for the little addition. So a simple editing of the plugin may not work.

[muldrick]

Same here, started 2 days ago.

Email addresses from user are always gmail.

[stevendaily]

I am having the same problem. It is the same spammer or technique as newform and just started a few hours ago.

[wildkyo]

OMG! thanks for that Willabee, I will do a test tonight!

[Willabee]

Try contacting her, or try changing something in the code so that the bots will be stopped once again.

Either way, spam will always be there.

[newform]

Hi,

I’ve had my forum up for a while now and havn’t had any problems with bots spamming ads. But now, sinece a few days ago, a number of bots have been able to register. I have human test from _ck_ activated.

trendyhousewives .com is the url.

Please help me!

/Newform

[rlinn]

My forum (http://www.nbascoreboard.net/forums) runs ‘Akismet’ and ‘Human Test for bbPress’ plugins. This prevents most spam. However, I’m having an issue where a spammer is making posts (‘xnpn’ plugin tells me so) but these posts don’t show up under ‘Topics’ or ‘Posts’ in my bbPress Dashboard.

The only evidence is the tag cloud on the right includes the tags. But then when I click the tag, I still don’t see the post. Have a look at the site linked above.

The spammer does show up as a User, but the profile doesn’t show any topics or replies. How can I combat this problem?

Thanks.

[John James Jacoby]

The news is in trac. There’s one ticket left in 1.1 and then it gets released. No sense in putting out a 1.0.4 to fix one bug that 1.1 will fix. Right now we’re in the middle of a WordPress, BuddyPress, bbPress trifecta release, so there’s three times as much testing to do to make sure nothing breaks.

If you can’t wait for a public release, download the trunk and do some testing.

[John James Jacoby]

The news is in trac. There’s one ticket left in 1.1 and then it gets released. No sense in putting out a 1.0.4 to fix one bug that 1.1 will fix. Right now we’re in the middle of a WordPress, BuddyPress, bbPress trifecta release, so there’s three times as much testing to do to make sure nothing breaks.

If you can’t wait for a public release, download the trunk and do some testing.

[koyuncu]

hi,

I don’t know what’s going on but the site is acting weird from time to time (seems bugged) . Few days ago I couldn’t register and now it seems I can’t post comments in the plugin page.

Anyways, I just recently discovered bbpress and it immediately caught my attention. I tried to install the following plugin http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/facebook-graph-connect/ but I’m having some troubles with it. once I have followed the instructions I tried to test it by register via it, so I accepted the FB app req. and then when I got ‘re-directed’ to my site it just kept refreshing and wouldn’t stop. So I went back in to deactivate it however now my forum has ‘disappeared’. you can’t see any of the forums unless you login nor the search bar etc. just wondering if I could get some help. I know it’s in beta and all but if there is a fix let me know otherwise I’ll have to re install bbpress

* reason to I’m posting this here is of course because I can’t post on the plugin page itself, as I explained above.. weird bug:P

[Clicknathan]

I’ve given that a shot, I’ll post back here if it didn’t work.

[Clicknathan]

I’ve given that a shot, I’ll post back here if it didn’t work.

[Clicknathan]

Hmmm, let’s test it out…

domain.com/example/

domain.com/example/#comments

domain.com/contact-the-president-theres-a-party-goin-on-right-here

[Clicknathan]

Hmmm, let’s test it out…

domain.com/example/

domain.com/example/#comments

domain.com/contact-the-president-theres-a-party-goin-on-right-here

[zaerl]

Maybe a recount will solve the issue. Visit: /bb-admin/tools-recount.php

[zaerl]

Maybe a recount will solve the issue. Visit: /bb-admin/tools-recount.php

[Clicknathan]

I reposted this as I was apparently marked as SPAM?

We’re running into issues where new posts that should appear on a new page of a specific thread are not showing up right away. It’s kind of hard to explain but I’ll try…

So a topic has say, 90 posts, where we’re displaying 45 posts / page. When post #91 gets posted, the pagination does not go from << Prev 1 2 Next >> to << Prev 1 2 3 Next >> but stays at only showing << Prev 1 2 Next >>

If you manually change the URL from /bbpress/topic/thread-name/page/2 to /bbpress/topic/thread-name/page/3 you can see the posts, but it takes awhile for that number 3 link to show up (haven’t figured out how / when it shows up, may just be after a certain amount of time or maybe after a certain amount of posts).

I know this is kind of advanced but if anyone has any ideas they’d be GREATLY appreciated.

[jaapmarcus]

Just made a small plugin for it.

You can download it on http://eris.nu/wordpress/bbpress.

Please note that only if the database of your blog is not the same as the forum you need the data about the database information. The prefix, url are always required.

Please try out for testing later on i will add some improvements so you can load directly data from the config of bbpress instead enter it in a form.

Later on I will add it to the WP plugin database.

[jaapmarcus]

Just made a small plugin for it.

You can download it on http://eris.nu/wordpress/bbpress.

Please note that only if the database of your blog is not the same as the forum you need the data about the database information. The prefix, url are always required.

Please try out for testing later on i will add some improvements so you can load directly data from the config of bbpress instead enter it in a form.

Later on I will add it to the WP plugin database.

[Willabee]

@ ricardouk

Uhm, not that I don’t understand you, but you do need to understand that we as developers need to eat too, so I don’t mind that extra’s on a cms/platform are only optional for developers.

And the greatest things in life just aren’t free.

That said, I do believe the bbPress WordPress plugin will get an easy intergration eventually.

[Willabee]

@ ricardouk

Uhm, not that I don’t understand you, but you do need to understand that we as developers need to eat too, so I don’t mind that extra’s on a cms/platform are only optional for developers.

And the greatest things in life just aren’t free.

That said, I do believe the bbPress WordPress plugin will get an easy intergration eventually.

[kwerri]

I wanted to use this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-latest-discussion/

but it’s no longer supported, and I wasn’t able to get it to work when I did install it.