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.

[@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.