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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WP Captcha] WP captcha use in gravity form](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-captcha-use-in-gravity-form/)
 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-captcha-use-in-gravity-form/#post-14179036)
 * It should be under Forms > General Settings and then you need to scroll down 
   to the bottom to R-Captcha Settings. you will need to go to the Google Recaptcha
   v2 developer console and set up your site key and secret key for that website.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Quotes Collection] Adding a line of space](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-line-of-space/)
 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-line-of-space/#post-13753414)
 * I just viewed the source code; the plugin uses styling hooks. Now, some of my
   other styles may cause different rendition, but you should be able to declare
   everything with CSS:
 *     ```
       /* --:[ Teatimonials Styles ]:-- */ 
       .quotescollection-quote p {
       	font-family: 'open script', sans-serif;
       	font-size: 1.15em;
       	margin-left: -30px;
       	margin-bottom: 5px;
       	padding: 0;
       	font-style: oblique;
       }
   
       blockquote .attribution .author {
       	font-family: dosis, sans-serif;
       	text-align: right;
       	color: #888;
       	font-size: .975em;
       	margin: 0;
       	padding: 0;
       }
       ```
   
 * Here is my page using this plugin:
    [https://pixelita.com/about-us/our-clients/](https://pixelita.com/about-us/our-clients/)
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WP User Manager - User Profile Builder & Membership] Wonkiness in WPUM](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wonkiness-in-wpum/)
 *  Thread Starter [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wonkiness-in-wpum/#post-12337317)
 * Well, it turns out there was a plugin conflict causing the registration page 
   to throw out an error. We had Gravity forms set to use a custom registration 
   page. Once I disabled that, the registration page displays as it should.
 * However, there is still the annoying (but not crucial) behavior where the original
   default registration form will not go away or allow itself to be deleted even
   though there is a big honking “Delete” button there. It’s annoying, but not the
   end of he world if it doesn’t get fixed. 🙂
 * [https://ahcivicclub.org/wpum-cannot-delete-form/](https://ahcivicclub.org/wpum-cannot-delete-form/)
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin] Nothing Can Stop Spam Registration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nothing-can-stop-spam-registration/)
 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nothing-can-stop-spam-registration/#post-12334178)
 * Nope. I am behind a corporate firewall right now using Google Chrome and Windows
   10. I’ll try from home in about an hour and see if maybe something on my side
   is blocking it. But I didn’t complete the registration when i didn’t see a Captcha.
 * J
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin] Nothing Can Stop Spam Registration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nothing-can-stop-spam-registration/)
 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nothing-can-stop-spam-registration/#post-12334160)
 * Use Recaptcha v.2; that’s the one that Google development console recommends 
   and it works just fine and dandy for me.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin] Nothing Can Stop Spam Registration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nothing-can-stop-spam-registration/)
 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nothing-can-stop-spam-registration/#post-12334153)
 * There doesn’t appear to be any challenge to registration. I clicked the registration
   link above and started the registration process. I checked two boxes regarding
   policies and procedures. There was no Captcha in place or anything else keeping
   a “bot” from registering.
 * If you have access to your server logs, check there to see what URL string they
   are using to get through. But I suspect it’s just not hardened enough as far 
   as keeping a bot out. But those plugins should have stopped even some of that
   traffic.
 * Who is your host?
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[WP User Manager - User Profile Builder & Membership] Wonkiness in WPUM](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wonkiness-in-wpum/)
 *  Thread Starter [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wonkiness-in-wpum/#post-12333286)
 * Also, even though the “Delete” button appears next to the stripped down Default
   Registration Form (which has a green check as “Default”), it won’t delete itself.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin] Nothing Can Stop Spam Registration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nothing-can-stop-spam-registration/)
 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nothing-can-stop-spam-registration/#post-12320920)
 * And you should be using the free version of Wordfence on *every* WP install you
   have, no matter what. 🙂
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin] Nothing Can Stop Spam Registration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nothing-can-stop-spam-registration/)
 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nothing-can-stop-spam-registration/#post-12320911)
 * For the spam registration plugin, I had a lot of spammy registrations from *.
   ru so I included that as well as *.cn (china) and that seems to have dome the
   trick. Also finding that yandex.com is a spammy email exchange so might add that
   one as well. Just check your logs periodically and when you see a pattern developing,
   add it; and that should nip things in the bud.
 * Wordfence pretty much stops most DOS attacks and repeated attempts to login within
   seconds (as a spammer or bot might try to do when trying to hack). So it works
   right out of the box as is.
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/).
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/).
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Ultimate Member – User Profile, Registration, Login, Member Directory, Content Restriction & Membership Plugin] Nothing Can Stop Spam Registration](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nothing-can-stop-spam-registration/)
 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nothing-can-stop-spam-registration/#post-12320801)
 * I started having that problem as soon as one of my client’s rabbit forums (based
   on BuddyPress) went live. The only thing that seems to help is this combination:
 * 1. WordFence
    2. Stop Spanners ([https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/))
 * HTH.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[BuddyPress Default Cover Photo] Plugin broke BuddyPress](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broke-buddypress/)
 *  Thread Starter [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broke-buddypress/#post-12265777)
 * …
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[BuddyPress Default Cover Photo] Plugin broke BuddyPress](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broke-buddypress/)
 *  Thread Starter [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-broke-buddypress/#post-12265748)
 * https://
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Registration Options for BuddyPress] Unapproved User Can Interact With Other Users](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unapproved-user-can-interact-with-other-users/)
 *  Thread Starter [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unapproved-user-can-interact-with-other-users/#post-10750973)
 * I added this to the theme’s functions.php file. This creates another custom user
   role (we call ours “Unapproved Member” but you can call it whatever you want):
 * ‘// Set Unapproved Member as default role before registration and approval
    function
   lois_set_default_role( $user_id ) { $user = new WP_User( $user_id ); $user->set_role(‘
   unapproved_member’ ); // role can be whatever you like } add_action( ‘bp_core_signup_user’,‘
   lois_set_default_role’ );
 * // Remove certain tabs from user profile based on member role.
    function buddydev_remove_tabs_based_on_member_roles(){
   if ( ! bp_is_user() ) { return; }
 *  if ( ! $unapproved_member ) {
    bp_core_remove_nav_item( ‘friends’ ); //removes
   the tab friends bp_core_remove_nav_item( ‘messages’ ); //removes the tab messages
   bp_core_remove_nav_item( ‘reviews’ ); //removes the tab reviews }
 * }
 * add_action( ‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘buddydev_remove_tabs_based_on_member_roles’, 1001);
   ‘
 * The theme uses BuddyPress which is somewhat interwoven. Good news is none of 
   the “forbidden” panels on the left appear using this code. HOWEVER, there is 
   a dropdown menu in the upper right of the site/dashboard once the user is logged
   in, and those “forbidden” areas still appear there. But when you click on them,
   the page throws out a 404 error. To get around that, we just customized our 404
   to explain that user might also see the 404 page pending their approval. A crude
   workaround but at least it seems to do the job.
 * Hope this helps someone else.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Registration Options for BuddyPress] Unapproved User Can Interact With Other Users](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unapproved-user-can-interact-with-other-users/)
 *  Thread Starter [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unapproved-user-can-interact-with-other-users/#post-10726387)
 * We have a similar issue where we want to corral the new user and restrict her
   from interacting with the rest of the members until she has been vetted and approved
   by an admin.
 * I found some code that would disable private messaging, walls, and feeds for 
   a custom user type. Once the user is vetted and approved, their status is changed
   and they can then have access to the entire site.
 * Could this code be beneficial to your purposes? I can share it if so.
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Registration Options for BuddyPress] Unapproved User Can Interact With Other Users](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unapproved-user-can-interact-with-other-users/)
 *  Thread Starter [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unapproved-user-can-interact-with-other-users/#post-10719263)
 * Hi, thanks for the super fast reply. I am impressed!!! Before I take up any more
   of your time, I need to check the plugin settings to be sure there isn’t some
   setting that I’ve missed. Once I’ve done that, I can grant you access to the 
   back end of the sandbox where we are developing this site. But I am not where
   I can do any of that right now so it will be ab it. But again,thanks so much 
   for your quick reply.

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