Catpcha to reduce automated joining?

I am not sure if your question is related to the plugin.

Are you looking for a plugin that checks whether a human wants to register or an automated signup?

Sorry, let me explain further. In the past, my websites have had ‘Anyone Can register’ disabled, as I find that it just attracts automated Hotmail spam registration. I’m trying to create a member area where people can access content not viewable otherwise. You plugin is perfect for making sure that people use their real names (required field on signup) etc. However, this doesn’t get around the non-human spam stuff.

I guess I could cut the ‘grace period’ for unverified signups right down to one day, then they would be deleted quickly. I was hoping that by having a Captcha as an option on the ‘register user’ form, that would cut out spam.

Does this clarify what I’m trying to do?

Neill W

Hi Neil,

Could it be that you are mixing up plugins? Mine is called “Reduce Bounce Rate” and has nothing to do with registration. My plugin doesn’t have any options.

Thanks

You’re quite right! RTFM problem! Thanks, I’ll repost on the correct area. Your plugin works superbly, by the way!

Thanks Neil.

btw. If you don’t want automated registrations, why don’t you add these lines at the top of your .htaccess.

# BEGIN BLOKKING AUTOMATED REGISTRATION
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-signup.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://example.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule .* https://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/ [F,L]
#END BLOKKING AUTOMATED REGISTRATION

5th line: example.com. You’ll have to replace this with your domain.

In short:
– if anyone requests for the signup (registration) page
– and are not already on your website
– send them back where they were coming from

Same you can do for automated comments. Just replace line 4 with
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} wp-comments-post.php

Thanks for the tip. I’ve found a Capcha plugin that seems to be doing the job. However, I’ll note that down, it’s a useful piece of code, will probably add it also.

Cheers,

Neill W