Mate well done!
Pour yourself a beer and go out into the sun. Seems you have been hard at
it.
Kudos
Pete
On 8 Jul 2013 17:57, "Chris Dennis" <cgdennis@???> wrote:
> Thanks to Benjie and Freaky Clown for the suggestions.
>
> I've knocked together a WordPress plugin that does extra checks at new
> user registration, and only allows HantsLUG mailing list subscribers to
> register.
>
> The plugin also uses the hidden form field trick to fool the spam bots --
> that alone is currently keeping the bots out at a rate of about 10 an hour
> at the moment.
>
> And, for luck, I've added the 'WP fail2ban' plugin. In the last half hour
> that's logged four attempts to log in with user ids that had in any case
> been denied registration.
>
> So, hopefully, that will keep it under control for a while.
>
> cheers
>
> Chris
>
> On 02/07/13 12:41, Freaky Clown wrote:
>
>> 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@???
>> <mailto:benjie@jemjie.com>> 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<http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/registration_errors>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Benjie.
>>
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