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Hi Ozy,

I’m sorry to hear about the user registration spam…that’s a pain.

Just a thought…but if you have used 5 major plugins to stop spam, you might want to look at any other plugins that might be interacting/conflicting and disabling the anti-spam capability. For example, one we ran into that disables anti-spam is “New User Approve”…are…[Read more]

Hi @djsteveb:

Thanks for the awesome feedback! We always want to improve the plugin. If you could contact us via our support form, it would allow us to look into that. With a little modification on our end we should be able to auto-detect, and make it so no one has to tweak any settings.

– Scott

WP-SpamShield will take care of all of that for you. 🙂

Full disclosure: I’m the developer.

Hi @Tranny,

Trust me, I completely hear you. You’re right. Ideally anti-spam controls like that should be built-in.

Those are great suggestions. We’ll take a hard look at possibly including those features in future versions of WP-SpamShield as well. One thing you’ll find by using a plugin like WP-SpamShield is that it will block 100% of bots,…[Read more]

Hey @danbp

I just thought I’d jump in here real quick, as I think this will be beneficial to everyone in the thread including @Tranny.

And even if you would be a genius coder creator of an extra super original spam shield, you could be sure to became target #1 of all spammers, because in this case, you would represent the absolute challenger of…

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