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Is there a way to manually approve forum registrations in bbPress? We're getting inundated with spammy registrations, and I'm concerned because Google is indexing the hundreds of /profile pages that are full of words that should be censored, etc.
I searched the plugins on bbPress but all I found was this "approve user registration" plugin: http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/ that appears to have all sorts of issues.
Any ideas web rockers?
We ran into the same problem recently. We had thousands of spammy user profiles/ registrations. To solve the issue, we finally ended up editing /registration.php (in your forum root folder) and simply placing a page asking people to contact us on our main site (Drupal) and then we would manually create user logins for the serious and legitimate users.
You can click on 'registration' above to see an example. As for the /profile URL's, I don't think the bbPress XML sitemap plugin saves these. To prohibit them from being spidered by search engines such as Google, simply create a robots.txt file in your forum root containing:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /profile/Good luck!
Anonymous
I also went into phpMyAdmin (my bbPress DB) and mass deleted all the spammy users. If you do this, be careful not to delete the anonymous user, especially if you're using the "BB Anonymous Posting" and "Human Test for bbPress" plugins.
If you accidentally delete the anonymous user, you'll see a phantom user logged in every time you view a post. To remedy this, deactivate and re-activate the above mentioned plugins. That will re-create the anonymous user.
Cheers!