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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Links posted on facebook of my site say WELCOME TO WORDPRESSThank you Richard! That is exactly what the doctor ordered! FIXED!! Your the best.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Spam Splogs Buddypress GOING CRAZYthe spammers are uploading avatars now. they have to be human.
i’ve been reporting the IP addresses to the hosting company that hosts the domain now. http://www.whois.net is handy for that. find out who hosts the email domain they use to sign up and go to the hosting company and find the report spam link. “junklessmail.com and supermailpro.com” haven’t signed up in about 24 hours now. we’ll see.and i put the domain names inside “options, banned email domains” but that didn’t work. they still got through. i’m assuming that buddypress overrides that?
buddypress. 🙁 so much good, but the hassle is really unbearable. if the spam could get sorted somehow it would all be fantastic. but i think sites with a large number of people and heavy traffic are all getting whacked over the head with it.
vent vent vent… 🙁
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: My blog has been hacked twice in the last weekThey try to use the admin user name all the time. Install “limit log-in attempts” and it will stop them. They try getting in my site too by guessing admin but this plug-in saves me.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Spam Splogs Buddypress GOING CRAZYCookies for comments doesn’t eliminate the spam. Woke up to 26 spam sign ups instead of 150, so it’s better at least. But still frustrating. Still have askimet, avh, block by math all running too.
And it would be nice if there was a place specifically on word press where instructions and solutions were posted for this issue so we didn’t have to sift through the forums and do this trial by error stuff.
Andrea, your vagueness, can you just post a link to a discussion? I have tried all of your “solutions” and they don’t work.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Spam Splogs Buddypress GOING CRAZYnever heard of cookies for comments. installed it, spam slowed down a little bit – at least for the 24 hours that I’ve had it going.
turned on hashcash again to see if that would weed out the one’s getting through and it was like a swarm of hornets descended upon me within 1/2 hour! i think there’s something in hashcash code that actually attracts the spammers.
I’ve tried bad behavior before and it did the same thing as hashcash and I’m not keen to try it again.
thanks for the cookies for comments suggestion. i’ll report back and to let you all know if it’s actually working, or if it’s just a fluke that I’m not getting splogs and spam sign ups. Some days are busier in the spam world than others.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Spam Splogs Buddypress GOING CRAZYChanged the default, added new fields and using custom slug. And no follow.
I’m convinced I have human spammers.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Spam Splogs Buddypress GOING CRAZY@andrea_r I’ve had the “allow users to add users” unchecked since the creation of my website. So that’s not it.
I’ve used my own email more than once after creating users then deleting for testing, so they CAN use an email address more than once if you just delete.
I’ve been blocking IPs. There are thousands of IPs hitting me. literally.
What thread should I read? I’ve gone on the BuddyPress forums and tried almost everything suggested and nothing worked. Do you have a link?
The ONLY thing I’ve ever had luck with was Monty Spam. But, since all the upgrades it no longer works on the new WPMU. Monty Spam stopped them before they got to me. They couldn’t even sign up. Monty Spam is really really missed! http://www.montyspam.net
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Spam Splogs Buddypress GOING CRAZY@mercime – this has to be my problem. i’ve done all the “nofollow” stuff. changed my registration page and and and. i have to have open registration for my site to function and i guess i’ll just be a slave to the “mark member as spammer” button. this is really discouraging. but at least there’s an explanation. thanks for that.
can anyone tell me what is better at keeping them at bay? marking them as spammers or just deleting them?
i wish there was a plug-in that would intuitively ban ips and email addresses based upon marking them as spammers. like a plug-in that would take the field info from the spammers input, email, user-name and ip address and put that in a ban field so they can’t keep coming back. or so it would make the spammers work as hard as we do booting them.
i can’t believe the amount of spam users and splogs i have to constantly delete.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Where should I keep images?click on your theme “options” and it should tell you how to place your images for your header. it may even allow you to upload one from the backend depending on the theme. go to your dashboard and scroll down to “themes” and click on “suffusion options.”
hope that helps.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: RSS Blog Portal Themebump
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: RSS Blog Portal Themebump – I am guessing that one could make the “sidebar” the main character on the blog? So that the sidebar shows up in the middle instead of the side? Is it possible to include a very tiny thumb of any image that is coming through via rss? It makes things prettier than just a link and text. Not sure if it’s possible, so just asking. – thinking text space for blogging above, like it’s shows on the link I posted, then a side bar for the bottom section but bring that bottom section up a bit.
does anyone know how to do this? I have money and a paypal acct.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Spam only in certain postsThis has actually helped me very much in preventing spam.