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User registration validation is not working which allows fake and spam accounts

ozyoz
Participant

@ozyoz

7 years ago

Hi,

User registration validation is not working which allows fake and spam accounts to be created very easily. this feature use to work very well months ago but all of a sudden stop working! Upon checking forums i notice this is not related to my website only but everyone got the same problem with their wordpress sites.

How can i fix this issue? I have used 5 major plugins that were suggested but none of them worked!

Thanks,

Ozy

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Red Sand Media Group
Participant

@redsand

7 years ago

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 you using that by chance? (There are some others that accidentally do the same thing.) Or do you have any other plugins that interact with the registration process? If so, try disabling them.

If you haven’t yet, you may want to try installing WP-SpamShield…it’s got very robust registration anti-spam. If you still have any issues after that, you can submit a support request and we’ll be happy to help you troubleshoot the issue and figure it out.

– Scott

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