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"Members must be logged in to comment" feature not working, spam bot comments

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Tips and Tricks HQ Support Portal › Forums › WP eMember › WP eMember Troubleshooting › "Members must be logged in to comment" feature not working, spam bot comments

Tagged: comment box, spam bots, warning message

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  • April 9, 2013 at 5:36 am #8902
    rvlawrence
    Member

    I have the setting checked for “members must be logged in to comment” in WP Emember and am getting spam comments coming through from bots, even though the comment form is not physically showing. Somehow they are bypassing the warning box to the comment form “underneath”.

    I also have the settings in WordPress “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” and “An administrator must always approve the comment” and they are checked.

    The spambot leaves a comment anyway. And it gets held for moderation.

    Somehow the spambot is getting through to the form (even though it shows as being protected and the warning box is there). It’s as if the comment form is hidden “underneath” the warning and only the spambot can see it.

    I am using the latest version of both WordPress and Emember.

    Anyone else having an issue with this?

    April 9, 2013 at 10:45 pm #54987
    admin
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    This is more of a WordPress thing. Basically, the comment spam bot it posting data directly to “comments.php” file of your site. This is why that WordPress settings isn’t working either. WordPress’s answer to prevent this is the following:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam/Denying_Access#Deny_Access_to_No_Referrer_Requests

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