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Easy way, On wpms 3.0.x
Disable the blog signup from SuperAdmin->Options ->Registration Settings
and select the second option (User account may be created). If you are on the wpms 3.1, you will have to go to NetworkAdmin->settings->Registration Settings and do the same.

On your users request, you can still create an account as you are the site admin.

Make sure you have turned on registration in WordPress.

if you’re on single WordPress, navigate to “Settings > General” and check “Anyone can register”:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_General_SubPanel

If you’re on WP multisite, navigate to “Super Admin > Options” and under “Allow new registrations”, make sure registration is not disabled.

Then, in your sidebar, use “ to get the signup url.

I simply use the facebook connect. and have disabled any other form of registration or login.
and i only get 1 user unless they have multiple facebook accounts and i get the benefit of avoiding the need for any other authentication

since facebook spend millions confirming its users i get to use that development for free.

I do know however that 99.9999 % of my users will be facebook users

So when i look at yoru delema i wonder why you want to offer all those ways and in turn CREATE your own problem

If you want to disable BP’s registration and user account activation pages: In your functions.php or in a custom plugin:

`remove_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_core_screen_signup’, 3 );`

i don’t know what’s causing it, and i don’t know the solution

but until you know, you can avoid the problem with this plugin: http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-auto-activate-auto-login/
with this plugin verification mails are disabled

Wpmu? There’s WordPress with multisite now a days?

And no you can’t use the native register page with BuddyPress.

There’s a “Sign Up” link notice in adminbar if you allow registration, beside the “Login” link see http://testbp.org/

Registration is disabled by default, so if you’re not seeing the Sign Up link, you should go to admin dashboard > Super Admin > Options – Registration Settings – Allow New Registrations – check any other than default “Registration is disabled”

Edit- for single WP install, go to dashboard > Settings > General Settings – Membership – Anyone can register and below that, you can choose Suscriber role.

“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. “

Start looking at access logs. If you have no way to check how they are getting in, then you have very little luck in stopping them.

have you DELETED the exisiting spam users? Because if you;re just deleting the blogs they create and leaving the spam users…. they just create more.

@jwack good luck!

@jwack
– Yep

– Yes, it’s not the most accessible-friendly way to prevent splogging but we do require people use the code in order to register at all, instead of a captcha. And we haven’t had a single spammer since. But for the few who don’t know it, we also provide the link where they can easily find out what it is, especially if they feel too lazy to look it up (I would be, heh).

Since our targets are mostly local people or former residents, they tend to know what the zip code is. If you have a genre-specific site, perhaps a similar technique could be applied? Or maybe a developer here could help you to modify the code so it applies only to the blog registration? I’m more of a front-end user/designer so altering other dev’s code is way out of my league >_<;

@jwack

hi, I had similar issues… even after removing the blog signup at registration, spammers would sign up, activate their accounts, and then create a new splog. to help cut down, I tried these steps:

– changed my registration slug in bp-custom.php:
define ( ‘BP_REGISTER_SLUG’, ‘join’ );

– also added a redirect of wp-signup.php inside bp-custom.php:
function register_redirect() {
if (strpos($_SERVER, ‘wp-signup.php’) !== false ) {
$url = ‘http://www.mysite.com/join&#8217;;
wp_redirect($url);
exit;
}
}
add_action(‘init’, ‘register’);

those two helped but didn’t completely remove the issue, this plugin really nailed it for us though:

– installed this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invitation-code-checker/ (since we have a local comm site, we just used a zip code as the invite code)
Not sure how your site is set up but perhaps you can find a way to use it too, may even allow you to re-enable blog sign up at registration. It says Tested up to: WordPress MU 2.8.4 but I have WP 3.0.3 with network enabled and BP 1.2.6 and still seems to be working just fine.

Most of these suggestions were pulled from helpful posts on BP, hopefully they help you out a bit

Either they;re getting in via the bbpress signup, or they are using exisitng logins.

Have you got “allow users to add exisiting users” checked in the super Admin -> Options menu? If so, UNcheck it. that’s one way we know they were getting in.

Also – you did nothing to the default multsite signup page, whcih is yoursite.com/wp-signup.php. Change that to a .txt file, then NOBODY can sign up for a blog on the front end.