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…
Block Remote Comments on a WordPress site
How to block remote comments on a WordPress site? How indeed? Here is a question for all of you – WordPress masters out there. Right now I am a bit puzzled. Problem – Comments without Visits I am noticing that people are posting a spam comments in a very tricky way. Somehow comments arrive with Site URL field populated, but I do not even have that field on the “Leave a Comment” form. It means that there is an automated way to send a comment without actually visiting the site. Is it true? I am searching all over the Internet right now. Looks like there is a product out there called CxxGxx. …
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