User Registration Spam Protection

[swissspidy]

We could probably hijack the user registration form the same way as we already modify the comment form.

See https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-registration-spam-3

[planetahuevo]

Is this something that could happen in the future?
I still need to have multiple plugins to do this and it would be great to just use the bee! :D
Thanks!

[Zodiac1978]

Hi @planetahuevo,

thanks for the question and the interest in ASB!

Removing the link from the login page has an enormous effect for me:

/**
 * Remove the register link from the wp-login.php script.
 */
add_filter(
	'option_users_can_register',
	function( $value ) {
		$script = basename( wp_parse_url( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], PHP_URL_PATH ) );

		if ( 'wp-login.php' === $script ) {
			$value = false;
		}

		return $value;
	}
);

from https://snippets.webaware.com.au/snippets/remove-register-link-wordpress-wp-login-php/

For high traffic sites with many spam attacks you maybe need to have more protection.

At the moment this has unfortunately no priority for us (not milestoned). But maybe one of the team is interested in implementing this in the future.

[planetahuevo]

Thanks. I already have this option but the bots know where to look ;)