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Check out http://akismet.com/how/#gs0

akismet needs to be activated with api key and if you are using it on a multisite network the wp config file needs to be modified in order for it give your entire network blanket protection. akismet is a built in plugin for all wordpress sites.

still wondering about legitimate users and wether they would caught by the mass deletions if their only activity was buddypress activity.

Interesting how compatible with buddypress is User Spam Remover? It mentions some stuff about bbpress in the faq but not buddypress. i could see mass deleting completely inactive users but maybe they just created some activity updates or joined a group or something would hate to catch those kind of users in my net.

EDIT: i just saw your other post will comment further there.

My site for Battle City was getting hit hard with spam user registrations. I wrote a post about it in the forums here.

At some point I realized, I will never defeat the spam user registrations. My efforts helped to limit them, but not eliminate the problem. So I decided, maybe what I need to do is limit the impact. The spam user registrations are still there, but now I barely see them. This is what I do:

To limit the spam user registrations, I use “Buddypress Humanity” and “SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam”. “Askimet” then picks up on most of the spam comments posted by those who still manage to register.

Next, I use “BuddyPress Block Activity Stream Types”. With this plugin I hide all new user registration messages from the Activity stream.

Finally, I use “User Spam Remover” plugin to go in once every couple of weeks to mass delete 95% of all spam users.

This doesn’t eliminate the problem, but makes life more manageable and keeps most of the spam users out of sight unless they manage to get past Askimet and post some messages.

glad to help!

i believe it is (applies to both questions)

@zachary-dubois – All three of the plugins I mention are Multi-site and BuddyPress-compatible. I also recommend SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam.

Hi Guys,

I am also using Salutation theme for my website http://fitnessblogger.net

although I agree the learning curve is quite steep for this theme… it does have some great features.. and I am slowly making sense of some of them…

The forums were a pain to setup but now we have simplified them and we are only using the group forums for our site it seems to work better?? http://fitnessblogger.net/groups/

This may help with the BuddyBar http://wpmu.org/daily-tip-how-to-disable-the-buddypress-admin-buddy-bar/

There are a few options for spam / splogger protection… we are using WangGuard.. again this takes a little bit of use to understand and get set up but does seem to help us..

Hope this helps a bit.. and happy to chat more if you would like

PS. I am not an expert just learning as I go along 🙂

Kind Regards

James

#1 yes they can only choose from the theme you enable and you can edit that theme to include whatever information you want i think you may need to do something to prevent them from editing the css though or they might be able to change stuff.

#2 that really depends on your situation/desires sometimes giving people too many options will cause them to not make any decision, other times choices equals freedom to create. If your value proposition is based on end user control and differentiation then you probably want to leave things as open as possible if your focus is on content and not presentation then you might want to restrict things. it is always better to give people new options rather then take them away so if your on the fence start out restricted and open things up according to your comfort.

#3 yes you can spam sites but you are also super admin meaning you can admin anything on any site.

You can use BuddyPress Humanity to stop bots:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-humanity/

or the honey pot method: https://github.com/pixeljar/BuddyPress-Honeypot

If necessary, you can manually approve users:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-registration-options/

@ubernaut,

You can also use the following plugins for higher-level ip blocking and behavior blocking:
– Bad Behavior
– WordFence
– Better WP Security

It looks like WangGuard will do the job. It can detect spam users that has already been registered, it can report them and delete them from the system. It also prevents from registering at least those who has been reported before.

interesting gonna check that out could be a huge time saver thanks for the info!

What about changing the register slug? Is this still something that should be done?

i’ve used SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam on a single install without issue, never tested with multisite though.

@rickkumar – I noticed loginradius have been spamming the Internet with fake users / testimonials for their product — so probably good to avoid that one.

If you are looking for another free solution – you can investigate HybridAuth.  That one’s a PHP library, rather than a plugin, so you’d have to do some coding, but on the positive side would gain a lot more flexibility.