Stop Spammer Registrations 1.4

I worked on my Stop Spammer Registrations plugin this week. It is getting quite complicated. It checks for IP and Username in addition to the Email. I cache recent attempts in order to keep the bad guys out without having to hit the StopForumSpam db more than I have to.

I had to make it backward compatible so that existing users would not lose their record of hits.

I fixed a bug where email was blank, but the ip address failed.

I added the uninstall cleanup. I forgot to add this to the first 3 versions.

As usual, I had to fix up lots of spelling and grammar mistakes in the docs.

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8 Responses to “Stop Spammer Registrations 1.4”

  1. james says:
    09/22/2010 at 7:45 am

    Hi, I installed the update and it works perfectly and it has fixed the issue I reported earlier. I’m creating an article on useful security plugins for WordPress, your plugin is happily included with backlinks.

    Thanks again for the excellent plugin, highly recommended ;).

  2. Keith says:
    09/20/2010 at 3:12 pm

    I am nearly done testing 1.6 version. I’ve been making many small changes. I have it installed on 6 of my blogs and I will see how it works for a day or so and then update.
    Keith

  3. James says:
    09/19/2010 at 10:14 am

    Thanks for the feedback, I look forward to the update. Other than the issue I mentioned your plugin works really well. Before using your plugin I was getting from 3-5 spammy registrations a day and was manually checking against the Stop Forum Spam Db. Your plugin eliminated all of those completely, and since I disabled the plugin to check with the registration issues, spam registrations have started again.

    I’ll clear the cache and let you know how I get on, thanks 😉

  4. Keith says:
    09/18/2010 at 3:58 pm

    I have been fine tuning the plugin. There will be another release in a day or so. For now, clear the cache and try again. It is not a problem with googlemail or gmail. What is happening is that a spammer comes in through an ISP that has an IP address marked as bad and then anyone coming from the ISP is thought bad. I am testing the version that doesn’t have this problem so update as soon as you see the notice on your control panel.

    Keith

  5. James says:
    09/18/2010 at 2:54 pm

    Hi

    This has been a very useful plugin for me, very good at eliminating the spam registrations, but today someone got in touch asking why they couldn’t register on the site. They had a googlemail.com address. I checked it with one of my own google mail accounts and all I get is:

    “ERROR: The email address isn’t correct.”

    I don’t know if this will be the same with other email providers or is just happening with the google accounts.

  6. Veldon says:
    09/15/2010 at 1:08 am

    WOW…

    I like this already it is working very well. Thank you for a job well done.

  7. Keith says:
    09/14/2010 at 5:50 pm

    If it doesn’t work or you decide not to use, please let me know why so I can try to fix it.

    Keith

  8. Veldon says:
    09/14/2010 at 4:21 pm

    Just to let you great idea on plugin. I am running the Stop Spammer Registrations 1.4 on my multiblog social site called Twinzi. I will see how it works on one of my sites. If works well I will be recommended it to everyone I host websites for.

    I also was kind of enough to add a link back to this site in my resources section.

    Thanks for the plugin.

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