Topic: Adding validation in registration form?

Adding validation in registration form?

@arezki

Participant

14 years, 8 months ago

Hi: I have a foreign language site and one way to perhaps deal with the spam is to ask a question in that foreign language like “what is ten plus five” with the response required in letter. That may be changed every 2 weeks or so. Any thoughts on how to include such a question and validation in the current Buddypress registration form? May be not doable at all, but I thought I’d try.

Arezki

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@r-a-y

Keymaster

14 years, 8 months ago

Try this:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/which-file-do-i-need-to-edit-registration-questions#post-45514

Or you can use an invite plugin – the invite code would be the answer and you manually need to add the question yourself.

@arezki

Participant

14 years, 8 months ago

thank you, r-a-y. I will focus on these options this weekend. Thanks again

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@arezki

Participant

14 years, 8 months ago

r-a-y, FYI and for what it’s worth for others looking for a similar concept. There is a tiny plugin called “Invitation Code Checker.” By installing it and then putting a code in it, say ‘fifty three’, and changing “enter validation code” in the registration form to “what is fifty and three in letters” – seems to be working so far. Spams have slowed, though I expect they will catch up. By then it is a matter a matter of changing the code like what is the capital of china? In my case, it is a foreign language site, which I hope would add more difficulty to those punks.

Thanks for the help!

@r-a-y

Keymaster

14 years, 8 months ago

Or you can use an invite plugin – the invite code would be the answer and you manually need to add the question yourself.

That’s what I suggested

@arezki

Participant

14 years, 8 months ago

yea..i agree that would be a lot easier. i am searching for a plugin like that. if u happen to know one, by all means let me know. many thanks

@gene53

Participant

14 years, 8 months ago

Hmm, I wonder if it’ll work on a BP/WP single install, I might give it a try tomorrow, I don’t think it can do any harm…

@arezki

Participant

14 years, 8 months ago

Gene53… the Invitation Code Checker seems to be an MU plugin. Give it a try though and if I find something else along the lines of r-a-y I will post an update here. But at least not it seems the fort is holding.