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I need some help and maybe you can offer some advice about my WordPress site..
Captain Xarzu Newbie Since: 11 Aug 2010 Posts: 1	Posted 24 Jan 2011 04:54:27 I need some help and maybe you can offer some advice about my WordPress site.. I get a lot of spam from spambots and spam from people looking to register on my forum/blog for the obvious purpose of spamming on my site. I have a registration page with one of those CAPTCHA input items and I also have a form where they have to agree to conditions in order to proceed. But these things does not stop me from getting email from people "requesting a username". I think all the things that I have put on my registration page does not matter if a "_POST" message is sent to the php through the URL address. Is this right? What can I do? I need some help and maybe you can offer some advice about my WordPress site.. I get a lot of spam from spambots and spam from people looking to register on my forum/blog for the obvious purpose of spamming on my site. I have a registration page with one of those CAPTCHA input items and I also have a form where they have to agree to conditions in order to proceed. But these things does not stop me from getting email from people "requesting a username". I think all the things that I have put on my registration page does not matter if a "_POST" message is sent to the php through the URL address. Is this right? What can I do?

I need some help and maybe you can offer some advice about my WordPress site..

Captain Xarzu
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Since: 11 Aug 2010
Posts: 1

Posted 24 Jan 2011 04:54:27

I need some help and maybe you can offer some advice about my WordPress site..

I get a lot of spam from spambots and spam from people looking to register on my forum/blog for the obvious purpose of spamming on my site. I have a registration page with one of those CAPTCHA input items and I also have a form where they have to agree to conditions in order to proceed. But these things does not stop me from getting email from people "requesting a username".

I think all the things that I have put on my registration page does not matter if a "_POST" message is sent to the php through the URL address. Is this right? What can I do?

I need some help and maybe you can offer some advice about my WordPress site..

I get a lot of spam from spambots and spam from people looking to register on my forum/blog for the obvious purpose of spamming on my site. I have a registration page with one of those CAPTCHA input items and I also have a form where they have to agree to conditions in order to proceed. But these things does not stop me from getting email from people "requesting a username".

I think all the things that I have put on my registration page does not matter if a "_POST" message is sent to the php through the URL address. Is this right? What can I do?

Patrick Woldberg Official Representative Since: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 1,904	Replied 24 Jan 2011 15:01:49 if you want to check if the post is coming from the registration page you could use the HTTP_REFERER. But that probably doesn't stop the spam. You could use 3rd party spam services like akismet to stop a lot of the spam. An other solution is that you or someone else has to approve comments on the site first.

vinomilp vinomilpsto Newbie Since: 27 Feb 2012 Posts: 1	Replied 27 Feb 2012 05:44:42 It is working!