Title: joe's Replies | WordPress.org --- # joe [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) In reply to: [There has been an error cropping your image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/there-has-been-an-error-cropping-your-image-5/) * [joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/) * (@joevistatech) * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/there-has-been-an-error-cropping-your-image-5/#post-11544563) * I installed the GD library just fine, and did a graceful restart of apache. Unfortunately, no dice for me. There are a slew of other things I would try, but I’m still treading lightly on best practices here at my work.. the site(s) I need to update the favicon for are sitting on RedHat Linux VMs in Azure. Due to the setup, I cannot just `sftp put` the favicon.ico where I need it. * **Workaround** (for anyone else still having the issue, beyond following suggestions above): Install/activate “Very Simple Favicon Manager” by Guido. It has not been updated in a while, but I gave it a shot and it worked like a charm. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[Contact Form 7] form no longer sends since recent recaptcha update](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-no-longer-sends-since-recent-recaptcha-update/) * [joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/) * (@joevistatech) * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-no-longer-sends-since-recent-recaptcha-update/page/2/#post-11540198) * I had a similar issue. After looking at [https://contactform7.com/faq/after-submitting-the-form-i-get-an-error-message/](https://contactform7.com/faq/after-submitting-the-form-i-get-an-error-message/) I narrowed it down to the mail server/SMTP (my error was in red). Easy fix for me was to use the SendGrid plugin (by SendGrid). I did a successful contact form submission test right after configuring the SendGrid plugin (roughly –> instead of using the hosting mail server, mail is sent via SendGrid’s smtp in the cloud). * You can try using any of the other SMTP plugins out there to workaround wp_mail(). * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[WP Mobile Menu - The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu] Can’t save options](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-options-5/) * [joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/) * (@joevistatech) * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-options-5/#post-11344643) * [@takanakui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takanakui/) So, I said I’d update you.. I moved this project from a subdirectory within my /public_html (or /www) to the _parent-level_ of the file structure. Basically, this was a website redesign project (we’ll name it “new”) held in `example.com/new`. I moved the site files of `example.com/new` to `example.com` (the /public_html directory) –removing the original site files contained in /public_html. * I hope the above makes sense! * After this move, the mobile menu plugin had stopped saving changes I made within the plugin. As well, the mobile menu settings reverted to default (same thing happened before). Luckily, I knew what to do: delete `mobmenu_options` from ` wp_options` in the database. The plugin was then able to save my changes. * I’m still novice at all of this, but my thought is that the mobile menu plugin loses its Update (PUT) ability/permissions to `mobmenu_options`. Furthermore, it reverts the `mobmenu_options` to default, if the permalink (or URL, etc) is changed. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[User Registration & Membership - Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder] Protect against spam registration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/protect-against-spam-registration/) * [joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/) * (@joevistatech) * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/protect-against-spam-registration/#post-11344167) * [@omarkasem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/omarkasem/) you probably already know.. but, it may help your troubleshooting –> if you add `/wp-login.php?action =register` at the end of your site’s url, you will see it only asks for a Username and Email. Once I saw that for my site, I realized that was how an influx of random (and not real) _users_ were registering. They were able to bypass all the other _required_ fields I had set up in the plugin, because they were not actually registering through plugin. * With “anyone can register” checked; literally, anyone can register. So whomever, is most likely using a simple REST API client to register users on your WordPress site (not via the user registration plugin) via the actual WP login page. After searching for this issue I came upon a screenshot someone had posted (sorry, I wish I could find it again to share with you), which showed a REST API client( postman, or something like it) registering new users via making calls to a `example. com/wp-login.php?action=register` (again, bypassing the plugin registration) and POSTing new users. After installing/activating/configuring the plugin I mentioned in my first reply, all user registrations (with only username and password) ended for my site. With reCaptcha enabled on the WordPress “core” registration page, the client cannot handle bypassing the reCaptcha. There is probably another way to add an extra step to the WP core registration process in the backend; in order to stop _rogue_ registrations, but this was the quickest fix I could do. * A good resource for testing your WordPress site’s vulnerabilities/security-flaws is [https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan](https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan)– this can also give you an idea of how people (or bots) scan WordPress sites; in order to find a security flaw they can exploit. Same with Amazon S3 buckets, etc. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[User Registration & Membership - Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder] Still getting registrations without required fields](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-getting-registrations-without-required-fields/) * [joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/) * (@joevistatech) * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-getting-registrations-without-required-fields/#post-11332198) * They are probably just scanning wordpress sites that have “anyone can register” checked in General Settings. They can use a REST client to go to the specific url like [@sanzeeb3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sanzeeb3/) shared for a WP site and enter username and email there. So you’ll need reCaptcha on the wp-login.php. I did this with [https://wordpress.org/plugins/login-recaptcha/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/login-recaptcha/)– Seems to have stopped the spamming. * Also, you can play around with [https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan](https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan) to check your WordPress site’s vulnerabilities. * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[User Registration & Membership - Free & Paid Memberships, Subscriptions, Content Restriction, User Profile, Custom User Registration & Login Builder] Protect against spam registration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/protect-against-spam-registration/) * [joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/) * (@joevistatech) * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/protect-against-spam-registration/#post-11332185) * We had the same issue. As soon as you check the box for “anyone can register”, that opens the door to the world. * The issue is on the WordPress framework-side. So, you’ll need reCaptcha at the wp-login.php. We did this with another plugin: “Login No Captcha reCAPTCHA” ( [https://wordpress.org/plugins/login-recaptcha/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/login-recaptcha/)). * After installing and activating this plugin, go to WP Dashboard Settings > Login NoCaptcha, then put in your reCaptcha site keys here. This seems to have done the trick * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[WP Mobile Menu - The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu] Can’t save options](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-options-5/) * [joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/) * (@joevistatech) * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-options-5/#post-11299701) * I agree! If it helps: the problem didn’t seem to side with other plugins conflicting. Doing a local test instance did show that an earlier version of WP (tried 4.7 and 4.9) fixed the ‘cannot save changes’ issue. So it may have had to do with updating to the latest WP release –something didn’t align right. For the “live” site (where my original issue was), it was only after deleting the wp_options > “mobmenu” options in the db, did the Mobile Menu plugin keep track of saves. I’ll keep you updated back here if this reoccurs –next time, checking functionality before updating WP or the plugin, which will hopefully give better insight * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[WP Mobile Menu - The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu] Can’t save options](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-options-5/) * [joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/) * (@joevistatech) * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-options-5/#post-11291444) * For me, it was a lock at the db level. Ruled out almost everything else, before finding this. MAMP helped with testing; in order to narrow down the issue. For a little background, this happened after I had moved the site and its database to another account (from “self-hosted” to HostGator). * I am using the latest 2.7.3 version. Like [@jpmerchan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpmerchan/) above, I had upgraded recently to 2.7.3. But, I did not test anything right before the upgrade to see if it was already having the issue, nor did I test right after migrating. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ * Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/) In reply to: [[WP Mobile Menu - The Mobile-Friendly Responsive Menu] Can’t save options](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-options-5/) * [joe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joevistatech/) * (@joevistatech) * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-options-5/#post-11288022) * I had the same issue.. Any changes to the Mobile Menu settings would not save. For my case, narrowed it down to the database. In **wp_options**, **after deleting“ mobmenu options”** here, the plugin was then able to save any new changes made.– to get here, had to rule everything else out (e.g. #1 reactivated, #2 delete/ install, #3 delete all plugins, #4 add plugins one-by-one; check if mobile menu plugin saved or not after installing/activating each plugin, #5 reinstall theme,# 6 test previous wordpress versions) Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total)