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    Daniel on October 19, 2022 at 7:50 am #47020

    Yo hi,

    My site is attacked by spammers with gmail addresses, then they open a user account and post the “Buy Google Review Comments, Buy Trustpilot reviews etc.”. So in fact I have to delete all these accounts daily manually.

    Is there any solution how to block those spam registrations?

    1. Is there a plugin where I can see IP addresses on the new registered users in order to block the IPs?
    2. Is there a plugin or solution to block spammers with Gmail email address registrations?

    Thanks for your input.

    Regards
    Daniel

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    Brajesh Singh on October 19, 2022 at 12:54 pm #47027

    Hi Daniel,
    I am sorry to hear about it.

    1. You may want to try this one
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/register-ip-multisite/

    2. Do you want to block all users from gmail.com? If yes, we have a simple solution. You can use our ban registration domains plugin.

    https://buddydev.com/plugins/wp-ban-registration-domain/

    Or if you want to restrict which email domains can be used for registering user, you can use our WordPress Restricted Email Domains plugin.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Daniel on October 20, 2022 at 12:50 pm #47034

    Hi Brajesh,

    Thanks for the IP plugin suggestion. I have installed it and it does exactly what I was looking for.

    I have installed Ban Hammer one week ago and it works the same as the BP plugin Ban registration, which is very effective.

    Thanks again.

    Regards
    Daniel

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    Brajesh Singh on October 21, 2022 at 12:41 am #47041

    Hi Daniel,
    You are welcome.
    I had suggested the registration plugin as you had asked for a solution to block gmail. I am glad you have already done this.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Daniel on October 26, 2022 at 11:20 am #47088

    Hi,

    I have found this link to create a honeypot for spammers for Buddypress.

    https://cyberwire.nl/code-snippets/prevent-buddypress-registration-spam/

    Could you teach me how to make a plugin out of it so I can add the plugin? Or can I add the code to a php file of Buddypress?

    Thanks for your help.

    Regards
    Daniel

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    Daniel on October 27, 2022 at 2:04 pm #47123

    Hello,

    I have to clean my website with over 30k spam registrations, but doing it manually under WP Users Dashboard it will take hours and hours. Can I delete the spam accounts in a clean way via FTP that will also delete all the activity posts of these spammers and everything what is associated with these accounts, same way as if I would delete them via WP User Dashboard?

    Thanks for your input.

    Regards
    Daniel

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    Daniel on November 1, 2022 at 8:07 am #47161
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    Brajesh Singh on November 1, 2022 at 9:20 am #47163
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    Daniel on November 1, 2022 at 11:39 am #47167

    Hi Brajesh,

    Thanks for the very useful information!

    Regards
    Daniel

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    Brajesh Singh on November 1, 2022 at 6:34 pm #47171

    Hi Daniel,
    You are welcome.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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