jlockley

And fast!!!

Yeeeeee Haw! With both your help problem surely solved. Thanks to both of you.

I have logs, but they are pretty bad. For one thing, the visits are not dated (???). Nothing Polish, lots of Russian spider bots. Ergo my concern.

I have no doubt that they are nefarious..spamming probably the goal.
Thank you very much. custom registration looks as if it would work well. Pretty much what I am looking for.
As for the htaccess file, I think I need the IP’s to enter, which was the first question. I know from our fight against the Ukranians that the IP ranges are vast. I believe we have blocked about 110 pages of addresses so far.

Registration.
Also in site visits, which I get from my CPanel. That does not show me however, when which IP’s apeared and of course not which registered. (There may be a way to get to that information. I am working on it.)

Yes, I understand that, but I noticed Askimet being advised to someone else, and I friend I went to with the problem advised it, so I wanted to state that I have it. Askimet does a very good job of spam blocking.
The problem, as far as it exists at this time, is rashes (up to twenty or thirty a day) of new users from Poland (although my stats on the server slice show no visits from Polish IP’s) which blow my bandwidth.
I have no idea what they are up to, but my guess is that it is better to figure out how to block them all together than wait and see.
My desires (rather than my problem) are a) a plugin which will give me more visitor information and b) a more complex sign up process that my current captcha offers.
If I have the IP’s, I can find the source. I have secured our mail for now (it’s a never ending battle) but would like these guys as far from my site as possible. So security issue, I guess.

thanks again. I read past that at least ten times. duh.

no, you are not. I missed that. I knew I was going to have a fist to skull moment here. Thanks a lot!

There seems to have been an open ” in one of the plugins, but removing them has had no impact. Twenty Ten shows the same behavior, so it is not theme specific.

oops..I Meant FTP. I believe I have access to PHPMyadmin as well.

Thank you very much.

I have deactivated all plugins but still have this arbitrary behavior:
https://chefspro.com/
on the whole, more recent blogs seem to be comment enabled.
Twenty ten is a good idea. How would I rest the plugin folder? I have PHP but generally use cpanel..can it be done through wp-admin, or how?

the deafening sound of one hand clapping fills the ether.

hellooooooooooo?????

one month. No answer? Same problem here. Would love to hear what to do.

Also. Is there a way to delete earlier revisions of a post?