Coming back around to this, I’ve been using TTC for a couple months and it’s simply too sensitive to what I need.
Example: Jane signs up to my blog but goofs her email (janedoe132@gmail.com instead of janedoe123@gmail.com). She realizes this and tries to sign up as janedoe123 BUT her IP is tagged as already being registered and WHAM she’s banned.
This is bad.
I have few spammers that get past Bad-Behavior, so really I just need a way to list emails and ips that are bad (like with comment moderation, only make it for registration). Or a way to flag a user as ‘banned’.
I know I can put them all for moderation or blacklist via comments, but that feels innefectual. If they’ve signed up, I have no way of knowing they’re on my banlist unless I match the two up. So a registration ‘Banned’ role or something. *sigh*
I ended up making my own plugin, tested only on my 2.7.1 site, and it seems to work.
Go here and look for Ban Hammer. It takes the comment blacklist entries and uses them for registration as well. There’s work to be done, it ain’t pretty (yet) and I have goals. But there it is.
Would NOT have been possible without ‘No Disposable Email’, TTC and WP-deadbolt. I studied those plugins a lot, and I consider Ban Hammer a bit of a fork off NDemail.
If you need to moderate new users registration because of “fake” registrations, I wrote a plugin that prevent people to register with a disposable email address:
http://www.joeswebtools.com/wordpress-plugins/no-disposable-email/
