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Sploggers? (5 posts)

  1. carnold
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    Using MUWP 1.3.2 and have registrations disabled. How is then, spam blogs still get registered? What are others doing to defend against this?

  2. jackiedobson
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    What are others doing to defend against this?

    A quick search for splogs will show you a number of recent threads on the topic.

  3. carnold
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    Well, the main concern is how are sploggers registering when registrations are disabled? Forget the what are others doing question.

  4. PhoenixRises
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    Its possible its an already registered user that's creating the splogs if its only user registration that is disabled.

  5. RCB-IT-Solutions
    Member
    Posted 16 years ago #

    Existing users can not create blogs if registerations is set to disabled or users only, but they can if its set to blogs only or all.

    I remember hearing about a hack that would allow someone to post the registeration info to wp-register.php and it would work even if registerations were disabled but I thought that that was addressed already.

    If you don't plan on activating signups soon, you can move wp-signup.php to a non web accessable direcetory so you know that can't happen, even renaming it actually should be enough if people don't know where to find it.

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  • Started 16 years ago by carnold
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