Considering this plugin for my commercial site.

  • Resolved jodisolbrig

    (@jodisolbrig)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    This plugin is so new, so few people using it as of yet I wanted to reach out and see what my support options might be if I had any issues using it on our commercial site. I’m primarily concerned with preventing bots from creating accounts. We seem to have a bit of an issue with accounts being created from “seemingly” valid domains (pingable, but not real sites). Is there a paid support version of this plugin? Do you think this plugin prevent spammers from creating random accounts?

    I’ve set it up in my dev environment, and so far I like what I see.

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  • Plugin Author Jeff Sterup

    (@foomagoo)

    It can help prevent spammers from creating fake accounts if their IP is on the Project Honeypot or Spamcop blacklists. It can also help identify and block visitors that are trying to use brute force attacks or scanning your website. I regularly check the support threads for all my plugins and try my best to solve any issues people find. There is no paid version of any of my plugins. I do all of them for free. If you create a support thread or post on one here I will get an email and try to respond as quickly as possible.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Jeff Sterup.
    Thread Starter jodisolbrig

    (@jodisolbrig)

    Thank you for the quick reply! Does this plugin also add “honeypot” fields to the site forms to eliminate bots? From what I understand, honeypot fields are blank fields, that are purposefully hidden from real users, that are expected to be blank on form submission. This is intended to kick act as a trap for bots and spammers.

    Thanks again!

    Plugin Author Jeff Sterup

    (@foomagoo)

    No. It doesn’t do that. It adds links to a honeypot that you get from projecthoneypot.org. You just follow their instructions for setting up a honeypot script on your site and then enter it’s location on the settings page. Then the plugin puts the link to that script throughout your site. Your normal visitors will not see the link but bots coming to your site to scrape content will see it and fall into the trap. Then you get your API key and every visitor will be checked against the Project Honeypot blacklist. I’m also working on a feature to change the address of author archives so bots coming to your site and scanning your author archives will get a random string instead of the authors username and automatically be blocked when they try to log in with it. But that feature is going to take some time.

    Thread Starter jodisolbrig

    (@jodisolbrig)

    Awesome! Thank you for a great plugin!

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