Hey there,

well, I’m not sure if this is the right subforum, so please feel free to

I am running a site where we have admins, authors and editors (which can review editors’ posts before putting them on-air). So, since now, we protected our WP backend with .htpasswd and .htaccess so no one could register/login without knowing the credentials for this extra anti-brute-foce gate.

Now I decided to stop using phpBB and switching to bbPress for my website, and as it seems, I need to remove the htaccess/htpasswd thingy to open up WP for all users to make it possible for people to register for the forums.

This makes me become concerned about the security of my site because anyone can register then – spammers as well as those brute-forcing id***s.

So, what can you recommend to have a WP website running bbPress while keeping the security level as high as possible?

Using: bbpress 2.5.5 | WP 4.1.1 | SmartMag Theme | http://www.booknerds.de (forum not on-air yet)

[@robin-w Moderator 9 years, 9 months ago]

bboress just uses wordpress registration and login, so any plugin that works for wordpress will work for bbpress.

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bbpress also rides on askimet to help prevent spam entries, just check that you have enable it within the forum settings.

Unless your site has many new users, you could easily use manual registration, it takes less than a minute to set a user up in wordpress manually. That way you stop spammers dead in the water.

[@booknerds Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Well, I changed the login and register URL and it works good with bbPress. Also, i use Antispam Bee (because akismet isn’t really according to the privacy laws in Germany) which helps, too. Third is WangGuard which stopps spam registrations and sploggers. Works. 🙂

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 9 months ago]

@booknerds

im not sure antispam bee is compatible with bbPress though, there is a plugin for bbPress that is inspired by antispam bee though.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-antispam/

maybe you should manually approve users using this plugin too

https://wordpress.org/plugins/new-user-approve/

[@alexanderbiscajin Participant 6 years, 6 months ago]

@booknerds

im not sure antispam bee is compatible with bbPress though, there is a plugin for bbPress that is inspired by antispam bee though.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-antispam/

maybe you should manually approve users using this plugin too

New User Approve

I think it would be more better to go through the list of Best security plugins to keep website secure and protected.