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How do spam users register while I've only enabled registration by Gmail via Janrain?
In wp-login.php?action=register, I've disabled text fields (sorry this web site is in Japanese only but hope you can see that there's no text field) and enabled registration only via social login by ...
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comments are going to spam
Why all wordpress comments are going to spam? I didn't installed any plugins to protect blog from comment and trackback spam.
Please help me to find a solution.
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Emails not getting delivered to Hotmail addresses
Recently Hotmail users are unable to receive their password email when they register or use the "Forgot my password" link to get a reset link emailed to them. So far this is only a problem for ...
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make classified ads as a spam?
i have tried to make classified as a spam.
i am using another wordpress classified ads plugin(AWPCP),i have put front-end side button in browse ads page to move ads spam.
so,suggest me any plugin or ...
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Hacked, what's the best approach? [closed]
I have a client just contacted me that their wp was shut down by host and got this message:
"We have noticed that database receiving heavy quieires. This is likely spam or malicious content." They ...
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What differences are between spam and real trackbacks? [closed]
There are many spam in trackbacks.
As Matt Mullenweg said:
They can't use markup or anything in trackbacks, so they're relying on
a few key words as the author name. I'd suggest adding these to ...
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Check spam in custom form - akismet
I have a plugin that has input form, I have decided to check submitted data with akismet. I do have API key, WP comments are filtered correctly...
here is, what I found: ...
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Why do I get email notifications about comments that Wordpress has already determined are spam?
I have a wordpress.org blog that I host on my own site. I have the Akismet plugin installed, and in general I keep both up-to-date (e.g. at the moment, Akismet is at version 2.5.7, and Wordpress at ...
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Comments screen in backend, how to disable Quick Edit | Edit | History | Spam | for non admins
I'm trying to adjust the comments screen for non admins to my project.
Right now I'd like to disable
Quick Edit | Edit | History | Spam
under any comment left for any post created by the user.
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Spam posts in wp_posts
When i'm hanging in myphpadmin I've noticed 62 spam posts in wp_posts. Their post_author value is 0 post_status value is 'spam'
Should i delete all of them or is it more secure to keep them like ...
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How to stop direct HTTP POST to a PHP script?
I have a form on my site, created using Contact Form 7 with Captcha. Contents of the form when POSTed are being sent to a PHP script, the "action" attribute of the form is set to ...
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Auto-deleting comments that trigger the blacklist
By default, the WP 'blacklist' feature finds comments containing the blacklisted string and moves them to the spam folder. What I am trying to do is change it so that instead of going to spam, the ...
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How to disable WordPress trackback?
I have higher PR as a result of that lots of spammers make trackbacks, everyday I have to delete them.
Those trackbacks will negatively affect my site SEO?
How do I disable my site all the posts ...
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approve,spam,trash etc. options are not coming on comments in admin panel
I made some changes in comment-template.php, wp-comment-post.php so now I am storing the comments withot attaching with any post or page (I am setting the comment_post_id to 0).
But now the problem ...
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Getting thousands of registration spam
We have tried the range of Captcha options, and now have Facebook Connect with Akismet installed as a constant, but still can't stop thousands of spam registrations from attacking our WordPress site. ...
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Comments view limited to 20 results - any way to increase to 50 or 100?
Each day I manually delete the spam posted on my blog. The comments view allows a maximum of 20 comments in the view. When I have 200 spam entries - I need to click through 10 times to get rid of it ...
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How should I debug this spam? [closed]
I manage a large news site powered by Wordpress. Recently, when visitors go to the site, they are redirected to very sketchy pages as this picture shows (The URL redirected to could differ every ...
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Adding a “Report the post” button/form?
I have a user-generated-content website with WP.
I would like to allow the readers to notify me of posts that should be taken down.
I need to:
add a button to the end of each posts, that when ...
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How to deal with small scale comment spam on small commercial sites?
When I've built a few sites for small businesses in the past, I've historically been able to do without anti-spam measures. I now have several sites which get maybe between 5 and 20 spam comments a ...
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Adding Contact Form 7 to my anti-spam rules in .htaccess
I have the following rules set in my .htaccess file to block spam. It works by not allowing anyone to login, register, or make a comment unless the conditions are met. It works, but I would like to ...
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Multisite signup spam troubles
I have a installation of Multisite that has a history of serious signup spam problems.
When we ran WPMU 2.9.2 we tried this .htaccess method, this math plugin, and CAPTCHAs. After little success ...
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Is there a spam comment blocker that blocks IP addresses for a limited amount of time?
I'm getting a lot of spam on my Wordpress blog. I'd like to cut down on the amount of comments I have to moderate. I'm looking for a plugin that does something like this: automatically marks comments ...
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Allow anonymous comments, but prevent spam [closed]
Captcha, reCapthca and the like have serious usability issues. And basically anything that requires a user to fill an extra field (other than the comment) each time the user posts a comment, is ...
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WorldPress Site got lots of spam links [closed]
Recently my wordpress website has got a lot of spam links. Google has indexed a lot of spam links from my website. The links are like:
http://example.com/viagra-buy.html
I found out that my ...
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How can I delete all my existing trackbacks?
I'm sorting out a long-neglected wordpress.org blog. It has over 100,000 pieces of trackback spam. How can I remove them all?
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Getting trackback spam, even with trackbacks disabled
I'm having a heck of a time having trackbacks being disabled period on my self-hosted blog. I've disabled the "Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)" option, and have ...
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How to expire all wordpress user passwords instantly?
So I own an article directory website and recently a lot of bots have signed up and started posting spam. (I approve posts prior to publication)
I've added a captcha to the user registration page now ...
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Buddypress Fake (non-bot) Users
BuddyPress Newbie question:
I have a brand new site running WP 3.3.1 and BP 1.5. Even before launch I am plagued with numerous fake users every day. I don't think they are bots, because I have a math ...
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14,000 Wordpress Users. How did they get there?
Somehow my Wordpress site has over 14,000 users. I know from looking at the records that these are "spam users"...
Spam User Email
martin28651162 martin28651162@promatekng.com
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Local wordpress setup with SPAM in the incoming links dashboard section?
I am developing a website on my localhost and i just notice a bunch of incoming links in the dashboard's incoming links section, which doesn't look valid.
When i visit the urls i don't see a reffer ...
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WordPress Phone Verification
Is there a way to check verified members phone numbers by sending code to their mobile phones just like Facebook does?
This would be very handy to stop spammers and allows only one user per phone ...
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Has anyone developed a anti-spam plugin to simply allow users to BLOCK whatever they wish to, but one that will also go easy on IP addresses?
I'm new here xD
I'm thinking of developing a plugin to allow users to block ANY spammy traces (IPs, Email addresses, Website URLs, phone numbers, phrases, etc etc) from those evil spammers.
BUT, ...
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Akismet plugin is deleting spam despite preferences
Curiously, Akismet is deleting old spam comments after a period of time (I'm guessing within a week).
This box is NOT checked:
Auto-delete spam submitted on posts more than a month old.
I've ...
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How to add captcha to publish widget
I want to add a captcha challenge to the "publish post" widget in "add new post" to prevent spam posts. This is because my site is open to registrations and posting.
Could someone please suggest how ...
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Prevent Registration Where Role is None?
My blog is being hammered by sploggers. The good news is that in every case the role displays as "None" in the list of Users. Is there a way to use add_action("user register") in functions.php to ...
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New users must comment when requesting username
Does any one know of a Plug in that will help with reducing the number of unknown user requests to my site?
current when a new user requests access I can only see an email address and username. Is ...
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How to make a secure blog that is completely private?
I have a login safe application and it has hundreds of users.
WordPress is a separate module of it and only used for blogging purpose [no other usage].
Both using the common database.
The blogs are ...
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How to protect my website from a spammer with dynamic IP? [closed]
I am running a website based on WordPress and BuddyPress and I noticed in the background that there is a profile that sign up every time using a different email address (I don't know how they do to ...
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Wordpress VPS out of Memory Problem
I would want to put forward my case in detail.
My website www.thehardtackle.com receives around 5000-10000 pageviews every day since 4th August. The server was a VPS with 1 GB memory, 800 GB ...
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Auto post Spams on my wordpress blog?
i don't know what the hell are these spam links on my friend's photo-blog posts! when i publish a post, this texts shown there! what should i do? (sorry for my very bad English)
blog: ...
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Is the tagline area spam-bot proof?
Is the tagline area spam-bot proof?
I've added my email address into the tagline area. Could spam bots pick it up?
You can see it here: http://richardclunan.com
(And if I add my email address into ...
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How to block a someone from commenting?
I keep getting spammed by the same user, well different name and site listed but always the same email, IP, and comment.
the email is 1p@ultradrugbuy.com, the IP is 31.184.238.9, and the message is ...
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Is it possible to determine proxy based comments?
I think proxy based comments mostly spam. So what is the best way of determining proxy using comments ?
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What do spammers gain by signing up as a user?
The majority of new user signups I receive on my Wordpress blog look dodgy, with @someblog.com, @somearticle.com, or @gmail.com addresses.
What do they gain by signing up as a new user?
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How do I permanently disable Pingbacks?
How can I permanently disable pingbacks on my wordpress multi user installation?
I have disabled access to the wp-trackback.php file through permissions (chmod 000 trackback.php) thinking this would ...
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Report spam button
I can't find any plugin or script to place a "report as spam" button in my comments section.
The button could simply:
- open a form to report a spammy or problematic comment to the admin
- send an ...
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What's the easiest way to close comments on media/attachments?
I consistently get spam attempts on various and sundry media attachments on my primary WP blog. By default, media has open comments (for instance, ...
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Something is generating spam pages on my site
The site is Videos-de-musica.com it is a simple wordpress blog with music videos. Somehow the subdomain stats.videos-de-musica.com filled up with spam, I remember setting the domain for pwiki stats, ...
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What methods should be used to fend off splogs in a multiuser install?
We're running 3.1.1 multi-user with the latest BuddyPress plugin, but we're having all sorts of issues with splog signups.
So far, we've started using Anti-Splog, Bad Behavior, ReCaptcha on the ...
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How is my non-published blog getting so much spam?
A few weeks ago I created a new WordPress blog. I bought a new domain name for it, and I have not published/linked to the blog yet (because I wanted to get a few articles up first, I only have 2 so ...
