Bot Registration

Hi there,

Thank you for reaching out.

MarketKing extends the standard WooCommerce registration functionality by adding custom vendor fields, but the core registration process remains WooCommerce’s native implementation.

I can recommend some solutions:

1. We strongly recommend installing a CAPTCHA plugin to prevent automated bot registrations. This free plugin should work well with the registration form:
   https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/recaptcha-woo/

We specifically recommend using the reCAPTCHA v2 “I’m not a robot” checkbox option, as it provides a good balance between security and user experience.

2. For additional protection against bots, you might want to consider implementing website-wide security measures such as:

• Cloudflare Bot Protection
• Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Security plugins such as Wordfence
• Rate limiting for registration attempts

Kind regards,
Stefan

Hi again,

MarketKing does not have any kind of unique registration endpoint or dedicated registration functionality. We process all registrations through standard WooCommerce registration features – MarketKing only adds some additional custom fields to this registration to set additional data that describes the vendor store.

It is certainly possible that bots are making registrations programmatically and that kind of issue is quite frequent on WP sites. On our side, we view it as beyond the scope of our plugin to strengthen the site against these kind of attacks – they are highly complex and would be impossible for us to address properly as they have more to do with the general security of the site.

I recommend to proceed with configuring a Captcha plugin as that is able to help in the majority of these cases. Additionally a dedicated security plugin like Wordfence should be able to help.