Rating: 1 star
UPDATED 12/26/18: Ok, so this plugin author will NOT update his plugin. Contacted him to no avail. I solved the issue myself by deleting the plugin. Maybe the world has moved on, because the spam level is no worse, so it truly seems without worth. Except now I’m not plagued by warnings about the outdated work of a foolish programmer.
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
It simply works without fanfare, dependably cutting a swath in the advancing line of spam by doing exactly what it purports to do. The plugin comes with the explanation that it does not address every kind of spam, just one very annoying common type.
It’s also the easiest plugin possible, you just install and activate. No spam, no premium offers. Just a free service – thank you! Justin Tadlock is a respected programmer, and this quiet little plugin is an example why.
Ok sure maybe I wish the plugin was updated more regularly/formally, just for administrative clarity, but the developer seems comfortable there isn’t need for alteration. I trust that is true, and indeed it still works!
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Such a shame. I installed it 6 months ago on WordPress 4.2. Brilliant. Not a single spammer. About 10 days ago the spam registrations returned as much as before. I’ve subsequently got around to upgrading to 4.4.2 so the failure is nothing to do with upgrading WordPress. Somebody has written a honeypot detector.
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Tried this as others seem to break my site but this does not work at all. If anything I have been getting more now than I was before
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A must have for sites with open user registrations.
Thank you, Justin!
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I had to disable “Stop Spammer Registrations” plug-in because I added a CDN that showed everyone as coming from the same IP address – therefore rendering the plug-in useless.
I immediately began drowning in BOT registrations, getting two or more registrations PER MINUTE onto my website. This is not only a drain on the CPU resources of the shared server my site is hosted on, but it slows down my mailing list of legitimate subscribers quite a bit (as I can only send 1,000 e-mails per hour).
Well the moment I enabled this plug-in (an hour ago) the crappy spam registrations stopped. So far so good (hey that’s AT LEAST 120 spam registrations stopped in 60 minutes).
Thank you Justin!! Keep up the great work.
Ciao,
L
UPDATE: Three days later, this plug-in still rocks!!
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a must have these days
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Works like a charm…problem taken care of instantly. Thank you!
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I had thought that the spam registration robots hitting my site recently were more sophisticated, but no. Nothing for the last day or so, fingers crossed. Thanks!
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