Getting thousands of registration spam
I use the SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam Plugin in combination with protecting the Site with Cloudflare. Got rid of 99,9% of the Registrationspam, from over a thousand a day to 1-2 a day.
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Emails not getting delivered to Hotmail addresses
Emails not getting delivered to Hotmail addresses
WordPress Site has 35K spam images
WordPress Site has 35K spam images
Automated spam being caught in 2 posts. Can this be used to help get rid of spam on everyone’s sites?
Automated spam being caught in 2 posts. Can this be used to help get rid of spam on everyone’s sites?
Spammers attacking my WordPress Site – Removing URL field from core? [closed]
The decision about comment status upon posting is made by wp_allow_comment() function. There is a filter in it that can be used to change it accordingly. Basic form would look something like this (not tested): add_filter( ‘pre_comment_approved’, function( $approved, $commentdata ) { if ( ! empty( $commentdata[‘comment_author_url’] ) ) { return ‘spam’; } return $approved; … Read more
All users/comments suspected as bot? [closed]
All users/comments suspected as bot? [closed]
How do I programmatically set a user as spam in BuddyPress? [closed]
How do I programmatically set a user as spam in BuddyPress? [closed]
Contact Form 7 Plugin send emails to my Gmail as spam [closed]
@janoChen, The problem could be that your email server is not using Domain Keys or a valid spf record DomainKeys is an e-mail authentication system that allows for incoming mail to be checked against the server it was sent from to verify that the mail has not been modified. This ensures that messages are actually … Read more
How is my non-published blog getting so much spam?
What are your privacy settings? Go to Dashboard -> Settings -> Privacy If it is set to I would like my site to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Bing, Technorati) and archivers, then your site is actively being crawled/indexed by search engines, and thus visible to spammers. If it is set … Read more
How to locate & delete hidden pages on a site
Posts/pages are stored in the wp_posts table. So you could get into the table and delete records. But, not recommended, unless you really know what you are doing with the tables. My procedure would be to re-install WP (from the Update page; reinstall WP), then delete any non-WP (the ‘Twenty*’ ones) themes, and remove all … Read more