My WP Directory site is being SPAMMED to death!!! (please advice)

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Padawan

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As the title states, I need urgent advice about how to stop spamming.

The site uses this free plugin:
artic*lesss.c*om/art*icle-director*y-w*ordpress-p*lugin/

I broke the author.php page and I emptied ALL of the "registered" users and users_meta tables, but they still are registering and posting.

Hosting provider has suspended the whole account twice in 7 days because of a high SQL usage.

I don't want any of them to post on the site.

How can I prevent them from doing that?

The site runs the last version of WP.

Please, any advice will be simply GREAT.

Thanks.
 
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So you want only legit users to register and post or do you want to disable registration altogether?
 
paincake said:
So you want only legit users to register and post or do you want to disable registration altogether?
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Not even that. I let Unique Article Wizard to post directly there. I need to disable any registration/posting feature of the site. I really don't need more authors, because I have automatic postings from UAW. They only send quality articles.

@wannabie: Where can I put the recaptcha? It seems that they don't need any page to post the article.

Thanks.
 
wannabie said:
Recaptcha and askimet
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Unfortunately akismet only stops comment spam; it doesn't check user registrations. Recaptcha doesn't work because almost everyone is using decapther or OCR (xrumer) to crack captchas, so that won't stop bots from registering/posting.
 
Padawan said:
Not even that. I let Unique Article Wizard to post directly there. I need to disable any registration/posting feature of the site. I really don't need more authors, because I have automatic postings from UAW. They only send quality articles.
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That's very simple to do. Go to WP admin -> Settings -> General -> Uncheck "Anyone can register"

now go to www.yourdomain.com/wp-signup.php and you'll see that the registration is disabled.
 
Askimet will work for any page on a wordpress site, it flags ip,user email blah blah

Recapthca wont stop spam but it will drasticlly slow it down


Check my thread about when i ran a artikce directory a whie back, i slowed sign ups tonext to nothing from bots
 
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paincake said:
That's very simple to do. Go to WP admin -> Settings -> General -> Uncheck "Anyone can register"

now go to www.yourdomain.com/wp-signup.php and you'll see that the registration is disabled.
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The simplest, the best. I was so blind with this issue, that I completely forgot to uncheck that option.

Thanks!
 
Have you checked amr to see if you in the list
 
sorry to hear bro but what theme are yyou using? would apprecite it you share that info.
 
in the registration, put some random mandatory forms areas. that will confuse bots registering. Not too difficult to change.
 
wannabie said:
Askimet will work for any page on a wordpress site, it flags ip,user email blah blah

Recapthca wont stop spam but it will drasticlly slow it down


Check my thread about when i ran a artikce directory a whie back, i slowed sign ups tonext to nothing from bots
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Couldn't find it. Could you please point me to that post?

Thanks!
 
Find xmlrpc.php in the root directory of your blog, rename it to something else. People can post to your blog through that file.

Rename wp-signup.php to something else if you don't want anyone registering.
 
Find xmlrpc.php in the root directory of your blog, rename it to something else. People can post to your blog through that file.

Rename wp-signup.php to something else if you don't want anyone registering.
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I'm having the same problem,

If i just change the file names to something like xmlrpc1.php and wp-signup1.php that is all i need to do and it won't break anything?:)

Apologies, I'm not too clued up when it comes to this kind of thing!
 
same happen here, i stop accepting comments from those that are not registered, and now problem is solved
 
flx89 said:
same happen here, i stop accepting comments from those that are not registered, and now problem is solved
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Its not blog comment spam. They are regisstering as users and posting actual blog posts from the WP back office dashboard.
 
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