Van Murray · BuddyPress.org

Van Murray posted on the forum topic Moderate Signup / Restrict Registration in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 5 months ago

I modified the “Manual Approve” plugin by Matt Kern to work with BuddyPress (don’t think he published it to the WordPress repository). I think that may be your answer to approving manually. Just put it in mu-plugins.

http://vanmurray.com/files/2010/06/bp-manual-member-approve.zip

Van Murray posted on the forum topic Moderate Signup / Restrict Registration in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 5 months ago

@zlamczyk: I think we are trying to work on the same thing. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/disable-activation-email/ I am getting spammed (bad) and they are simply using the activation email to approve themselves. My thought was just do a manual approval to either “activate”, “send activation email”…[Read more]

Van Murray started the forum topic Disable Activation Email in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 5 months ago

I’m getting spammed and have identified that they are using bots to create member accounts, then using the activation email to validate (typically with .info domains). Does anyone know how to disable sending the activation email in a plugin? WPMU 2.9.2, BP 1.2.2.1 I have adapted the manual-member-approve plugin written by Matt Kern to work […]

Van Murray posted on the forum topic over 1000 not activated users.. what do you suggest we do with them? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 5 months ago

@hnla and @boonebgorges: I found this plugin a while back and modified it to work with BuddyPress. Let me know if you need it still. Anyone know how to stop sending the activation email? I don’t want to disable the activation function; I just want to stop sending the email automatically. I want to selectively send it. […]

Van Murray posted on the forum topic Spam Blogs in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 5 months ago

Also; each “blast” of spam users/blogs appear to come from different IPs, but the username always has a 7 digit number pattern after a random name. They all appear to come from “.info” email registrations. These registrations are bypassing the public registration form requirements somehow, but I believe they are legitimately activating their…[Read more]

Van Murray posted on the forum topic Spam Blogs in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 5 months ago

Update: After several days of manually adding users with a form (that matches the registration form); I attempted to re-enabled registrations. Immediately I got 2 new spam users and blogs. New User: terrence1603615 Remote IP: 65.75.250.92 terrence1603615@LIEMAIL.INFO New User: cooper7790557 Remote IP: 65.75.250.92 cooper7790557@THEINBOX.INFO This…[Read more]

Van Murray posted on the forum topic Spam Blogs in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: 14 years, 5 months ago

I have a couple BuddyPress installs. The older of the 2 has received 150+ spam member registrations (and blogs) this weekend. All create members like bob45873675 and “Bob’s Blog”. I have changed slugs, activated recaptcha and followed several blog posts on best practices. What’s interesting is they are somehow bypassing my registration page. I have […]

Van Murray joined the group How-To and Troubleshooting 14 years, 5 months ago