In case this hasn't been covered before one of the most impressively easy
ways to combat this is to have a hidden form field on the registration
form, this field MUST remain blank for the form to be accepted, most spam
bots will auto fill this in yet humans will not even see it - should knock
out most of the spam.
combine with another form and its pretty fool proof
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Benjie Gillam <benjie@???> wrote:
> You could make a very small plugin so only email addresses on the mailing
> list can be used to register new members; this could be combined with other
> "defences". It'd stop most of the automated Wordpress registration scripts
> that are out there; though it obviously wouldn't hold out a determined
> attacker since all they have to do is register with the mailing list to be
> allowed in...
>
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/registration_errors
>
> Cheers,
>
> Benjie.
>
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