Adam

OK, I see where you’re coming from to a certain extent, although that hasn’t cleared up the puzzle.

My webserver is actually a mailserver – I know that because I use it and pay for it – one of the reasons I wasn’t keen on turning to another provider to pay another bill.

I followed instructions from my hosting provider to make sure that all the configuration was correct when I set up the WP connection with one of the plugins called simply “the Newsletter plugin”. but that is one of the plugins I am complaining about – it stores my subscribers’ email addresses in a separate list and I can’t connect them up with comments, social logins or profiles.

I understand the points you are making and actually hold them to be true myself – although they are the reasons why I don’t want to use another provider like MailChimp which I was deliberately steering clear of – because of their association with the marketing, online selling and spam industries!

Having written that out, it occurs to me that you mean WordPress are deliberately not getting involved in that area as a matter of policy, which I can understand. But I don’t see the issue stopping many plugin developers. Maybe it has.

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Awesome! Thanks again. Looks great now.

That’s nice, thanks v. much ??

I just noticed the social avatar needs tweaking as well – is way too big, if you see here down the bottom:

https://carbonwatchdog.org/trillion-trees/

Hi Minor
it would have been great if you could catch and display the “wrong site key type” when the “response parameter” error happens. It would have saved me a trip to your user forum ??

A couple of other plugins do that, but otherwise they are inferior.

Oh, also, the labelling on the settings panel for the site key & secret could be more explicit, i.e. v2 recaptcha or v3 recaptcha key. Just to stop dummmies like me getting confused.

Thanks. The plugins in the article rely on services like Akismet which I’m already using now, but “registration spam” is a good search term!

It baffles me that there is any point for the spammer to set up these spam registrations. I suspect the plan is based on finding a security flaw in the future at some point with which they can do something nasty although that seems like a lot of effort for little & uncertain returns.

@carike did you read my post? That account no longer exists because I deleted it from my website and that email is similar in pattern to about 200 others that I also deleted. I doubt they are actual email addresses – just 200 aliases that are either caught by pattern matching on their server. I’d be grateful to hear why you think they are real – honestly – it might help me stop the abuse.

@bizanimesh thanks. I forgot about Akismet! I’m using it on my other sites, so I’ll install it straight away. Fingers crossed.

Weird. It was the supersocializer plugin.

Bump?

Hi Guys,
any estimate on when the IG fix will be ready?

Thanks

Blimey, a tsunami of social login plugins! Thank you for the tip.

I wonder what % of social logins will provide an email address.

I am slightly wary of not providing a password-less email registration, but I also think it’s an issue for people who only subscribe by email that they can’t just unsubscribe directly on the website. They have to have one of the emails with an unsubscribe link.

Surprising! Thanks, that’s great.

I see! So it’s the default.

That’s strange because I’m actually running wordpress myself on my own host, so I should have full control of this!

I already looked in all the core WordPress configuration files, but I didn’t see it.

I have actually worked around the main problem, which is that my mail host was putting all emails from the plugin into my spam folder, although I’m not sure why.

It may be that it doesn’t like the reply-to email from a different domain, but I’m not sure.

I got round the issue by whitelisting the “[email protected]” address.

Thanks for your prompt reply, and nice work with the plugin ??

@brideauj that’s it – exactly the same problem for me.

They were working for 2 weeks since I put the site live, and suddenly today the embedding didn’t work.

I changed the youtube URLs and it’s fine now – phew!

Hi Isabelle, I’m no expert (in fact I was hoping to learn something here) but I can tell you that you need to put the HTML code from your erreur-404 into the 404.php file.

To make it simple, just take a closer look at that 404.php file and replace the text that will appear with the text you want. You can see the stuff I mean? Like “Oops! That page can’t be found.”

HTML is not too difficult – although @jarretc might be able to help you more with the penguin picture you’re using as the background ??

Great, fingers crossed. Thanks.