Thanks songdogtech.
I had actually noticed that, but when I went to the plugin page from the control panel, I saw this:
Warning: This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress.
And in the support page, there are a lot of unresolved issues.
http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/sabre
This is what the one and only review had to say:
Does not install correctly
By IAmMarchHare, December 7, 2012 for WP 3.4.2
Does not allow registration, then throws SQL error. Looked in forum, and this has been going on about two years without a fix. If it isn’t going to be updated or supported, it should be taken down.
This is what I meant when I said that most of the plugins I investigated before posting looked promising to me but had some scary feedback in their support forums.
Regards,
Alan OldStudent
There are fixes in the forums for that plugin; they may be worth a try. The plugin is 3.3 compatible, but no word on 3.5; it may be fine, albeit with the fixes you can try above.
It’s too bad all those plugins are not really maintained anymore. But it is a complex thing to do, code wise, to develop a plugin with that many features.
What about using a captcha to prevent bot registrations? Those may be some/most of the bogus registrations you are getting.
Thanks again for the reply. Sorry it took me 2 days to respond.
We tried the Sweet Captcha plugin, which really appeals to me. I actually try to noodle stuff out before I ask in a forum. Of course, lots of spammers hire humans to deal with captchas.
There should be some way that the email WordPress sends to new registrants have a confirmation link the user needs to click. Most forum software has that, and it seems like a logical thing to do. I’m not up to writing the plugin, and I don’t have access to the WordPress code in our installation itself.
Does anyone else have a suggestion?
Regards,
Alan OldStudent