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jwack posted on the forum topic WTF? Disable Blog creation during registration in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years ago

WOW, I did the above mentioned items and I am still getting hammered with spam blogs. I have no idea what to do now, I am already making a sacrifice by taking away blog creation during signup.

Any ideas of what I can do?

jwack posted on the forum topic Activation Email Not Sent? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years ago

hmmm, I don’t have email setup on my server. I have no experience with servers but have managed to learn enough to have my site up. I thought the point of mailFrom was to address the problem off servers not being configured correctly to send mail through WP?

jwack posted on the forum topic Activation Email Not Sent? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years ago

I have my own server, I heard this issue is related to my server not being setup correctly to send mail? If I had more details I may be able to fix it there.

jwack posted on the forum topic Activation Email Not Sent? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years ago

I have it setup with a gmail account, is that not good?

jwack started the forum topic Activation Email Not Sent? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years ago

OK, I thought I had this fixed from before but apparently not. I did a test signup and the activation email was never sent out. So I activated the account. After doing so I instantly received an email saying my account was now setup. Any idea why I would not receive the first email but […]

jwack posted on the forum topic WTF? Disable Blog creation during registration in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years ago

I didn’t notice the wp-signup.php, I am hopeful this will solve the problem, thanks!

jwack started the forum topic WTF? Disable Blog creation during registration in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years ago

I have had it with spam blogs. I have literally tried every plugin/hack known to man, sometimes they will work for a couple weeks but they always come back. Anyway, I am trying to disable blog creation during registration. I have… – commented out the entire blog section of /registration/register.php (in child theme) – deleted […]

jwack posted on the forum topic Sub Blog's "Sign Up" Link = 403 Error in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years ago

anyone?

jwack posted on the forum topic Sub Blog's "Sign Up" Link = 403 Error in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years ago

Deactivating plugins didn’t help. I have added the following items to .htaccess. The first rule is the problem but cookies for comments plugin says to add it to stop spam blogs. #Cookies for comments RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*XXXXXXXXXXXXX.*$ RewriteRule ^wp-signup.php – AND # BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST…[Read more]

jwack started the forum topic Sub Blog's "Sign Up" Link = 403 Error in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years ago

When I click on the admin bar’s sign up link from any sub blog it gives me a 403 error. “Forbidden, You don’t have permission to access /wp-signup.php on this server.” I installed Cookies for Comments and added… RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.*$ RewriteRule ^wp-signup.php – This is what is causing the 403 on my sub blogs, […]

jwack posted on the forum topic Sign-up and register pages??? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 1 month ago

I was just curious, wondering if spammers could use these extra signup files.

jwack posted on the forum topic Sign-up and register pages??? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 1 month ago

ne1?

jwack posted on the forum topic Automatically join groups in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 1 month ago

You could use “BuddyPress Auto Group Join” plugin to force members to join an existing groups when they signup.

jwack started the forum topic Sign-up and register pages??? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 1 month ago

In the root of my site I have wp-signup.php and wp-register.php. Don’t all of my signups use registration/register.php within the buddypress folder? Do I need these extra signup pages?

jwack posted on the forum topic Attacking spam — different approaches + results in the group Spam Eater: 14 years, 1 month ago

With bad behavior it seems like you just trade spam signups for blocking real users. I had it installed for 1 day and keep getting messages from legit users getting blocked. CANT WIN.

jwack posted on the forum topic Attacking spam — different approaches + results in the group Spam Eater: 14 years, 1 month ago

Does anyone know how to test the .htaccess change (found here https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-spam/?topic_page=3&num=15#post-69499)?

I can’t seem to get it to redirect when I test it.

jwack posted on the forum topic BuddyPress Spam in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 1 month ago

Thanks. How do you know if there human or bots?

jwack posted on the forum topic BuddyPress Spam in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 1 month ago

That was the original post I seen, but then I seen https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-spam/?topic_page=5&num=15#post-74351 and there was another version floating around some where that was slightly different. As you can see this version just has .register* and then domainName.* I wasn’t sure…[Read more]

jwack posted on the forum topic BuddyPress Spam in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 1 month ago

Anyone know how to check the above to confirm its doing what its supposed to?
Also, is the 3 supposed to be myslug, or register.php?
Is line 4, just domainName, or domainName.Com?

jwack posted on the forum topic Attacking spam — different approaches + results in the group Spam Eater: 14 years, 1 month ago

Ya, all of measures are no longer working, captcha, humanity, .htaccess stuff, etc. They are some how bypassing everything.