{"id":698,"date":"2013-08-03T15:52:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T10:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techkunji.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2014-05-21T15:14:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T09:44:32","slug":"best-way-to-protect-buddypress-from-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/2013\/08\/03\/best-way-to-protect-buddypress-from-spam","title":{"rendered":"Best Way to Protect BuddyPress from Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was getting really annoyed with all the spam registrations on my BuddyPress site. Tried different plugins to stop spam and most of them failed, including Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-recaptcha\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span id=\"0f5b97a8-bb5c-482b-82d5-8f92d2827945\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\"><span id=\"f70406f6-16b9-4316-b026-cb348160006a\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">reCAPTCHA<\/span><\/span><\/a>. I was surprised when the spammers got through <span id=\"027021b7-e352-4e6f-9fc0-21d157da106d\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">reCAPTHA<\/span>. Whatever spam plugin you use, don&#8217;t use the below mentioned plugin.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Don&#8217;t Use<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pixeljar\/BuddyPress-Honeypot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BuddyPress Honeypot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If this plugin worked properly this would have been the best plugin to stop spammers from registering on your site. I liked it because it creates an extra text field that is hidden via CSS. The visitor never sees the field, but spam-<span id=\"f7319024-44d5-463d-9051-4cd0622f501a\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\"><span id=\"1349ad29-6ac2-441a-90ac-bf1a6d7083f1\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">bots<\/span><\/span> will usually fill it out so they don\u2019t miss any required fields. The hidden field is a <span id=\"be35a795-3ae8-4da6-b4ec-73db627d42a7\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\"><span id=\"1afc5bd3-d97f-4a2f-ae10-4a1564f55d12\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">honeypot<\/span><\/span> that traps the <span id=\"325cba6e-734a-43a3-82c5-5968e93c624d\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\"><span id=\"c38b7a8b-a988-4371-8a26-84091bc5c0f0\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">bots<\/span><\/span>. Cool, isn&#8217;t it? But looks like it&#8217;s broken.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3>Safe to use<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/bp-registration-options\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BuddyPress Registration Options<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This plugin will not automatically block spammers, but you will have to manually deny their accounts. The plugin allows <span id=\"2dfb007c-441b-4569-bb44-e82d28a5197a\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">admins<\/span>\u00a0new member moderation, if moderation is switched on, any new members will be blocked from interacting with any BuddyPress elements (except editing their own profile and uploading their avatar) and will not be listed in any directory until an admin approves or denies their account.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wordpress.org\/plugins\/bp-registration-options\/screenshot-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"862\" height=\"551\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wordpress.org\/plugins\/bp-registration-options\/screenshot-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You will get an email every time a new user registers. This is the best free plugin out there which I have tried. If you have ever come across a better one, please let me know. I hope this plugin will help you protect BuddyPress from Spam.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Image Courtesy:\u00a0<a id=\"yui_3_7_3_3_1375524550453_1605\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/89949915@N07\/8593904945\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Brian Chantler<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was getting really annoyed with all the spam registrations on my BuddyPress site. Tried different plugins to stop spam and most of them failed, including Google&#8217;s reCAPTCHA. I was surprised when the spammers got through reCAPTHA. Whatever spam plugin you use, don&#8217;t use the below mentioned plugin. Don&#8217;t Use BuddyPress Honeypot If this plugin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[63,38,31,30,29],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","tag-buddypress","tag-cms","tag-tutorials","tag-website","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}