Justin Parr

> Some detail about the limits/requirements on seeds and form field variables would be helpful.

No worries!!

Seed: Basically, any 4 digit number you want. The seed is used to mask the answer, so it can’t be scraped from the HTML. This allows stateless operation ?? E.g. if your seed is 100, and the math problem’s answer is “123”, then it will add the seed value of 100 to the answer, 223. When you submit 123 as your answer, it will subtract the seed value from the hidden answer field, 223, and compare your result.

Form field variable: Any combination of letters is safe. This is to prevent hackers from looking at the “MathAnswer” field, or similar. Instead, I call it “fred123” or “whatever999” or “some44thing”. Everyone’s website will have a different field name, preventing automated attacks.

Please let me know if this is helpful, or if you would like any additional information. Happy to help if I can!!

-JP

Thanks for the link to your site – NICE coat of arms!!!

I validated that the math problem works as expected. Not sure how the @ sign got in to the field name, but YES, that would cause issues. I’ll keep my ear to the ground to see if others have this issue as well.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

-JP

WOW, not sure why it had an @ sign, but YES, that would cause problems!

Perhaps I should add this to the installation instructions?

What are your thoughts?

Thanks in advance,

-JP

What is your website? I’d like to take a look at it running?

Thanks in advance,

-JP

Im not familiar with buddypress – someone else asked about this as well, but I think because of the social networking integration, some of the native wordpress user registration features are disabled. I’m not exactly sure of this.

My plugin works ONLY on the WordPress-provided user registration hooks.

Once active, any user who registers will have their IP address stored in the “website” field.

Go to “Users”, click the user (as if you were going to edit the user), then scroll down to website. The IP address from which they registered will be listed as https://1.2.3.4

(1.2.3.4 is a generic example of the IP address)

You can then block just that user by adding 1.2.3.4 to the Discussion Comments Blacklist (under settings), or the whole subnet by adding 1.2.3.

Please let me know if this helps.

Thanks in advance,

-JP

No response – I’m going to mark this as resolved, but please let me know if you continue to have an issue with this plugin.

Thanks in advance,

-JP

Hello, did you activate the plugin?

Go to the “Plugins” menu. Under “JP User Registration Blacklist”, It will say “Activate”. Click “Activate”. If it says “Deactivate”, then it’s already activated. If you get an error, please send me the details of the error.

Thanks in advance,

-JP

Please let me know if you have any additional questions regarding this topic, and we can re-open it or start a new thread.

My apologies for the delay in responding – I was on vacation. You must set your discussion settings to require user registration in order to comment. If the user ID already exists, it will not prompt for user registration. The best way to test, is modify your discussion settings to require a user registration, then sign out, then try to leave a comment. You should be prompted to log in at that time, or you can click to create a new ID. Please let me know if this helps.

I’m going to go ahead and close this thread, but please let me know if you need any additional help on this topic.

Hi, I don’t know much about Buddypress, but I’m happy to help. I don’t know if Buddypress is a direct fork of WordPress, but if so, it should work with it. If not, at least the PHP code will work — all the registration hooks would have to be adjusted for Buddypress. Let me know what I can do to help!