Captchas don’t work and multisite isn’t a forum. 😉
Sorry Andrea, I’ve been working on multiforums all day before posting about this, but of course I do mean blogs!!
I find it shocking that capachas won’t work, but i’ve also read on google that there is a vunebility in wp-signup.php which allows bots to bypass this!!
I will give the method Ipstenu suggested a try, and if this fails, I will unfortunately have to do some sort of manual setup, of which I know will be time consuming!
Bah!
PWNtcha can break 90% of known CAPTCHA algorithms.
I use Akismet, Bad Behavior, that htaccess bit, and NOTHING else for WordPress (the rest is my server’s firewall) and I have very few spammers.
Okay,
Now there is something really strange going on here:
I have REMOVED wp-signup.php with a static page explaining that signups has been dissabled.
I’ve just had a new blog created! – How is this possible without the wp-signup.php code there?!
Might be a stupid question are you sure your site hasn’t been hacked or has a back door installed?
Do you allow site admins to add new users?
Ipstenu – I do not allow site admins to add users,
However, having said this, i had tried to delete a few spam users, and ended up corrupting the mysql database. (argh!)
With no SQL backup (even though the site is backed up!) I have no option but to start from new.
CSD_Images – I don’t think I had been hacked/back door! however, as ive now started from anew, I will see!
If you neglected to delete or block the spam users as well, they’ll just create more.
You also have to check your other plugins to see if they’re letting any in. bbpress and buddypress require different answers. 😉
Andrea – I’ve totally deleted everything (including the hosting account) and started with a new database, so currently got no users, however I am forcing any genuine users to contact me for manual setup as I am keeping signups disabled for a while to ensure that bots aren’t bypassing anything.
I don’t think I have any other plugins installed, like bbpress or budypress – how would I check this? All i have in the plugins directory is askmet and hello dolly.
I thin you’d notice if you had bbpress or buddypress installed….
Also:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/moderate-new-blogs/
And yeah. On a low volume site I have put up a contact form instead.
