Gregory, thank you for your hard work! I know writing plugins, especially security, which are so hard to create and maintain, is not as easy task.
I am not happy I had to delete WP-Cerber. Makes me very sad.
The big issue is: most plugin writers and many behind the scenes at WordPress, assume everyone is a trained programmer. Not true. Many, many indie businesses, teachers, creatives love and use WordPress.
I am 100% DIY. I simply don’t know how to change settings so people signing up are not thought to be spammers.
I was on phone, listening to and walking my pal through the process. As I wrote above, my heart fell and I was shocked when he told me what happened.
When I see error messages on my or other sites, I am horrified. No one wants to be called a spammer.
What happens when strangers sign up and see that? They might not even write me to tell me what happened. I knew because he was testing for me. His behavior was not that of a spammer.
He filled it out normally for somebody having a hard time signing up because he’s a newbie. The world is full of newbies. Many are my (and others) potential customers and students.
So that’s the issue: instructions should be clear how we can change settings if legitimate users are locked out or accused of being spammers.
THAT is the focus.
MemberPress has a page listing known conflicts, plugins and themes. WP-Cerber was not on it prior to my contacting them. I don’t know if updated. I don’t know how they determined that was the issue. I didn’t give them username/password to my site.
You might want to reach out to them and ask them how they knew that was the issue.
I would LOVE for this to be resolved! That’s all. Take care, Gregory