Users being blocked

Akismet stopped working. It is disabled in the current version. Please upgrade. I will be releasing a newer version very soon that has a second chance captcha for those denied access.

Keith

I’ve experienced this problem as well, but I’ve also recently starting having users blocked for other, non-akismet reasons that don’t make sense (too quick on pages that users take a lot of time on, or on wp-activate.php which should be quick. Any thoughts?

Once users are in the bad-cache for whatever reason they will be blocked for a few hours. Clear the cache on the history page.

The latest version offers a second chance captcha for those who are blocked and so far the spambots are no filling it out. The captcha only works for sites that have the gd graphics installed, which is usually standard.

I had to add the captcha (it is optional, though) for cases where some users are blocked and should not be.

Keith

I wish I could share my settings somehow, something is amiss, I have the latest version with Captcha, now I am getting 10-20 registrations a day. Not posting spam, but I suspect these registrations are spammers. As before I was getting one a week or so.

In general – Add Admins to white list checked
Check credentials on all login attempts: unchecked
Check IP address checked

Enable StopForumSpam Lookups: checked
Wordpress API key entered
Spam Limits: All Defaults

Other Checks: Everything here on except
Check for quick responses (disabled if caching is active): unchecked
Blacklist searches for WordPress PHP files:unchecked
Blacklist login attempts using ‘admin’ userid:unchecked
Check for TOR:unchecked
Check IP against the Akismet db on logins unchecked
Check IP against the Akismet db on comments: unchecked

Events To Check Everything on except
Check IP on wp-login.php: (As it was blocking registered users) unchecked
Don’t check plugin forms: unchecked

Login and Register are the same program: wp-login.php. If you unchecked the wp-login.php box, then there are no checks for registrations. You are getting hits of spammers trying to register because you chose not to check them.

Keith

dbeaty2,

I just added code to check action=register even if you un-checked wp-login, so you can permit logins and still check registrations.

I think some people will want it the other way around, but I don’t have time to add a new option flag.

I’ll put it out tonight as I have to fix another bug and it has to go out soon.

Keith

I appreciate your plug in and help Keith. I somewhat understand how it works, but I do not have 100% understanding.

I’m going through and trying to contact all the users that were banned back in Feb, and email them to tell them I am fixing it.

I am checking the Check IP on login.

WordPress uses the same program to register as login.

If you unchecked “Check IP on wp-login.php” then you disabled registration checks as well. By letting users login without checking them, you let spammers try to register without being checked.

Keith