Spam after posting question here | WordPress.org

funpawcare
(@funpawcare)

11 years, 4 months ago

After posting a question here on the forum, I have received dozens of spam email requests signing up for my blog posts.

I thought you should know this and also wanted to ask if there is any solution to this as I am sure I am not the only one this has affected.

Thanks Russ

https://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe2/

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Matt Robinson
(@mattyrob)

11 years, 4 months ago

@funpawcare

That’ll be down to posting your web site address on a well crawled forum. You need to deploy good anti-spam measures on your site anyway – Bad Behaviour is a good start:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bad-behavior/

Thread Starter funpawcare
(@funpawcare)

11 years, 4 months ago

I already use akismet and NoSpamNX spam filter. Do you prefer Bad behavior to those?

Also, the spammers are not leaving comments (yet) they are signing up for my blog through your Subscrbe2 plugin. Any anti spam measures through your sign up? maybe a captcha or something?

Thanks Russ

Matt Robinson
(@mattyrob)

11 years, 4 months ago

@funpawcare

Bad Behaviour should work with those plugins you already have. Subscribe2 does use some simple anti spam measures but not Captcha.

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