[frooyo]

What’s the best way to prevent spam user account registration?

I’ve tried the “Human Test for bbPress” plug-in but it seems to stop working with 1.0 RC.

Any other plug-ins out there that are a good way to prevent spam user account registeration?

[Arturo]

i’ve it with latest rc3 and works without problem

[Detective]

I also have this in my .htaccess:

# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .register.php*

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*ryuuko.cl.* [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.dii.uchile.cl/ [R=301,L]

# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

The dii.uchile.cl url is an internal joke

[michael3185]

@Detective; for a bit of a noob here, could you briefly explain what those .htaccess rewrites do please? (Wondering if I should add something like them).

[_ck_]

What he has done is rename register.php to another name and therefore if any bot tries to directly access the register.php file, it’s not human and bounced elsewhere.

It’s a reasonably good idea. But it may break some plugins which can’t detect if they are on the registration page if it’s renamed.

[thion]

I’m using “Human Test for bbPress” with RC3 and it’s working perfectly, spam bots has been stopped.

[michael3185]

Cheers _ck_. I had a look at an online rewrite guide but my brain tried to crawl out of my ears.

[Detective]

The .htaccess code redirects all POST requests to register.php to another url if the request doesn’t have a referer from my own forum.

The code is originally from here: http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/spam-blogs-and-buddypress/

[vanesta]

You can’t just stick with one way of spam registration prevention, might need to mix it up a bit overtime

[phaniraj01]

Renaming register.php may be very good idea..

Thanks _CK_

[Rhys Wynne]

If you’re familiar with ReCAPTCHA I’ve written a plugin that integrates this spam prevention tool with bbPress.

It’s still waiting to go into the SVN, but you can download it here – http://www.gospelrhys.co.uk/plugins/bbpress-plugins/recaptcha-bbpress-plugin

I’ve tested this on a 0.9 site, and it’s completely eliminated spam (since Sunday…at least!)

[_ck_]

rhyswynne I reminded Sam to approve your svn slot so it should be active now

[Rhys Wynne]

Thanks CK

[Piya]

I’ve tried to install ReCAPTCHA plugin but bbpress can not block spam registration from bad guy.

How to completely change registor.php file ?