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@windhamdavid – thanks for the hint about bbpress… didn’t know, that the register-file was still there… Now I deleted it (just in case) – although forums are not even activated in my install. By now, still no spammers registering… could be that activating hashcash again did the trick (although I really don’t get it why, for as far as I know it just protects the register-form, right? and it seems, that wasn’t even used…
@chouf1 On the install I am havong troubles with there is NOT ONE spammer for sure. I know all of them personally! In my other install (I have 0 troubles until now, I will check back on that. thanks for the hint)
PS: Chouf1 – wow, do you speak swissgerman
Yes i disabled that Option already… Don’t think they come in that Way…
my question is just: is there another possible Way to signup (besides the Register-page and adding through admins)
Just another little update: To me it seems that there are two different spam-signups (at least
)The ones, that come in through the registration-form
I could handle those with all the tipps (for me this worked best):
– change the slug
– additional-fields
– change some text on the registration-page
– change footer-text
– SI-Captcha didn’t really work, so I used the modified invitation-code-plugin mentioned before
– wp-ban did help, too (often wasn’t really needed – just left it there in case…)
– changing/deleting wp-signup.php (which led me to this connected issue/question: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/wp-signupphp-redirects-to-registration-slug-why)
The ones, that don’t seem to use the registration-form or wp-signup.php at all
– never had this problem before, so it hit me… Further described here with a open question for me: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/is-there-a-backdoor-in-wpmubuddypress
– This morning I found out, that I had deactivated the hashcash-plugin because I had comment-issues (didn’t come through anymore). I think the spam-flood came after deactivating it. Right now I have activated it again (just for signups) and no spam came in for a couple hours now (even with deactivated wp-ban, without captcha or invitation-plugin, wp-signup.php still there)
So far my forther journey with this issue
Thanks for another hint
No, actually I was talking about http://www.prisma-online.org – but same thing with the slug. I just guess it’s not that, because if they would come in normally, they would have to put something in the additional field, wouldn’t they? (at least, that’s what they always did before I stopped them the first time…
I now added again the .htaccess rules you described (didn’t change there the changed registration-slug…)
Does that look right (sorry – on that level I have no idea anymore
):# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .registrieren*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*prisma-online.org.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://die-spammers.com/ [R=301,L]
# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
@hempsworth If you would make the messages highly customizable (all of them), then you wouldn’t need a localization
. I would like that, so I can choose, what users see…
Sorry to pick that up… I thought I won with the spammers for I did what stwc wrote in his article (by the way – the site there is down
)But yesterday until now I got about 100 spam-registrations. I did not delete wp-signup.php anymore, because the “reigster” in the admin-bar anywhere else but on the root-blog needs that file… So I thought it’s not a good idea.
BUT now, the spammers registered with just the name. Although I have alot of additional, required field… How is that possible? I guess, they didn’t come in through the bp-register. Maybe the wp-signup.php directly?
I have forums disabled altogether and as far as I know this issue with registering through bb-press should not be an issue anymore.
Would appreciate if someone could give me a further tipp what to do or where they could come from.
PS: @andy (or the developers): Why is it, that on subblogs the admin-bar “register” doesn’t point to the register-slug but is somehow a redirect from wp-signup.php (which doesn’t work anymore, when I delete or empty the file…)
@blackphantom Update to my latest post: They came in – probably 15h later… Now the tweets from BP –>Twitter don’t seem to work anymore (or maybe they just take as long…?)
Would be great, to have that fixed
– or faster…
Yep, me too!
Localization or better, all the messages are costumizable from backend. Cool stuff, though! (I think I will add through css a little graphic instead of the text…
@blackphantom – I think your plugin is just awesome and gets better and better! WOW! The settings are already great!
Some little suggestions:
– @mentions from BP to twitter are still @ in twitter. Why not make a similar setting: “Export tweets containing @names”
– Set a personal filter in the frontend like “only import/export tweets with … in it” and “never import/export tweets with … in it (say I twitter alot about buddypress in twitter, but my BP Users are not interested in that at all…)
Would be even more great (if that is possible
And did i get that right – is it already translatable? How has the file to be names? (I will make a german translation)
PS: I like, that we can name the twitter-app as we like too!!!
Just a little WARNING:
Do NOT use
“External Group Blogs” together with
“Group activity stream subscription”
They don’t like each other.
Your users will be spammed with dozens of Emails a couple times a day.
I think this is why the notifications plugin just picks up everything and the “external groups” fetches articles a couple times. Averytime stuff gets fetched, notifications for all the items (not just the new ones) gets sended out. So far my guess.
I wrote the plugin-creators about it. hopefully they find a solution.
BUT the plugins for themselves are GREAT!!!
THX!
I just found out, that those plugins and “Group Activity Email Notifications” doesn’t really nicely work together. Everytime it fetches, the notification-plugin sends out emails…
But I guess it’s a “bug” there and I post it there as well…*just as a warning*
I checked the DB and the “lost” content in private and hidden groups is still in there. At least that is good!
The question is: Why doesn’t it show anymore???
Ps: ray doesn’t have the time right now to check (told me on PM)
Can please somebody, who upgraded, check their private/hidden groups for pld (pre-1.2) content?!
Thanks for updateing, Andy. It works now alot better (as far as I can tell after this little time…)
But still in the Twitter-Plugin the problem with foreign characters (like german Umlaute)
It the shows like that: Ein wunderschöner Tag – und ich sitze im Büro… Aber was macht man nicht alles für den Herrn!
(oder macht er grad diesen Tag für mich?)
Yes – i think a mail is enough for groups… (digests will be awesome!
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