spam entries

  • Resolved resteasy

    (@resteasy)


    6 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,
    My rsvp form is getting hit with spam entries. I have enabled RSVP Captcha in the settings panel but no captcha shows on my form (yes I did flush site cache and browser cache).

    How do I bulk delete the spam entries from my event? There are almost two hundred of them, too many to individually click to remove from the rsvp report screen. I am able to do MySQL queries if I have the right command. I want to zap them all including legit ones.

    Thank you,
    Jim Batchelder

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  • Plugin Author davidfcarr

    (@davidfcarr)

    You can see the reCaptcha at work on some of the RSVPMaker.com sample posts. Not sure offhand what’s interfering with it working on your site.

    RSVPMaker registrations are stored in a custom table, which will be called wp_rsvpmaker if you haven’t changed the wp_ prefix on your site. You can query by post ID if a particular event got lots of spam entries.

    Just a sad fact that spam robots will attack anything that looks like a form. Personally, if the spam level is tolerable, I usually keep it simple because I want to make it easy for people to register — but I understand how fast it can get out of control. ReCaptcha is one of the less intrusive methods.

    Thread Starter resteasy

    (@resteasy)

    Thanks for the quick response David, and for the directions on where to clean these out of the database. Regarding the missing captcha I’m guessing I have a theme conflict, it’s a really old theme that is overdue for replacement. It looks like you update the plugin very regularly and I appreciate your intention to keep it simple to use. Perhaps the wish list for future updates could include Akismet integration and a spam honeypot? I prefer the behind-the-scenes filtering over the often frustrating captcha puzzles. I run Gravityforms on 50 or so sites with these two features enabled and I’ve literally never had a spam entry get through. Unfortunately a bot has already sent a couple hundred submissions to this form today. I removed the notification email to spare the site owner any more viagra ads but that’s not a long-term solution.
    Jim Batchelder

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