[wamlibrarian]

Since my most recent update of WordPress, I’ve had an issue with new users being able to post replies despite their status being “awaiting email confirmation”. As you can imagine, this had led to an influx of spam messages on the site.

I’m assuming that as part of the update, some setting was changed to turn this on be default, but i have no idea how to turn it back off. Could anyone advise me?

Currently using WordPress 5.3.2 running Twenty Seventeen theme using Version 2.6.4 at http://wamlibrary.com/forums/

[Robin W]

can you list bbpress related plugins please

[wamlibrarian]

Akismet Anti-Spam
bbp style pack
bbPress Login Register Links On Forum Topic Pages
bbPress Messages
bbPress Search Widget
bbPress Voting
GD bbPress Attachments
GD bbPress Tools
GD Power Search for bbPress
GD Topic Polls
Ultimate Member
WPS Limit Login

[Robin W]

ok, so bbpress does not have the feature of preventing posting until email confirmation, although this might be by default if your site doesn’t add users until you have confirmed.

In essence if your user is set up with bbpress access, then that is what they get.

one of the plugins above might add that functionality, although I suspect not.