This article addresses the problem of robot user registrations on all WordPress versions including WP 3.3.1. I would be very interested to hear, what is the purpose of registering all these users, what is the goal? Did you notice that despite your best efforts to allow only human registrations, the ranks of your registered users keep growing? All these are dead records in your database. Each new user registration is one record in “wp_users” table and about 15 new records in “wp_usermeta” table. And none of them ever change their default password. Total waste. You might even install a CAPTCHA plug-in to torture real human users with typing a four-digit code to…
WordPress Error 500 – Internal server error on Empty Comment
Problem – Embarrassing Error 500 I am running latest Word Press 3.0.1 on IIS 7.0. If visitor tries to leave an empty comment or forgets to enter name or email, an ugly 500 – Internal server error will appear on the screen. This is extremely embarrassing for the host and for the site. I approximately know that I have three ways to approach this problem: – Disable error 500 on IIS side to allow WordPress to handle it; – Lower level of error generated in WordPress code (IIS will not catch it then) or – Write a local JavaScript to prevent user from posting with empty fields. Solution – One click in…
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