Name: bbPress Email Domain Bad-Words Blacklist Plugin
SKU: 597
Availability: InStock

Description

What is bbPress Blacklist Plugin?

bbPress Blacklist Plugin is a bbPress plugin which allow you build a blacklist to prevent spammers register as your users.

Why I need bbPress Blacklist Plugin?

One day when I try to reply users email ticket, I get an error notify which told me I over the limitation of SMTP, I checked all my settings and everything is works well, finally in wordpress users menu, I found I have about 10,000 users in a few days, and nearly all of these users is sapmmers and all of them have same email domains. In web logs I find hugh register records, I tried black these IPs in .htaccess, it seems works, but a few days later, I found these spammers change their IP for each spam account, so I decide develop a plugin to block these spammers email domain, this is why I develop the bbPress blacklist plugin.

How bbPress Blacklist Plugin Working?

bbPress Blacklist Plugin will hook wordpress register API to scan each wordpress / bbPress standard new user registration progress, when we found there are any email address is listed in blacklist, we will prevent the registering on your site, and tell spammers: “Sorry: Your email address is not allowed in this site”. On my bbPress site, it looks like this:

How to install bbPress blacklist plugin?

It is very simple:

#1 Please download bbPress blacklist plugin in https://www.bbp.design.

#2 Please login your wordpress admin area and click “Plugins” menu item,then click “Add New” sub menu item

#3 In “Add Plugins” panel, click “upload plugin” button and upload the plugin zip file and activate the plugin

That’s all

How to use bbPress blacklist plugin?

It is very easy to use bbPress blacklist plugin. After installed bbPress black plugin, you will find Blacklist-Whitelist menu item, please click Blacklist-Whitelist menu and then you will open Email Blacklist Settings panel, it looks like this:

In “Email Blacklist Settings” panel, you can build your email blacklist in “email blacklist” option by this way:

#1 Enter one email per line

#2 You can enter email address or email domain or any bad words which should not included in email address
For example:

“admin@mysite.com” means block this email address, it can not be used to register user in your site
“mysite.com” means block this email domain, any email address include the word “mysite.com” can not be used to register user in your site
“sex” means block this word, any email address include the word “sex” can not be used to register user in your site

Then in frontend, when users try to registered as a members of your site, if any bad words or email address / email domains in blacklist be detected in user email address, they will get a error notify “Sorry: Your email address is not allowed in this site” and they can not register as your site members.

How to Import bbPress Spam Email / Domain / Bad Words Blacklist From CSV File in One Click?

You can import bbPress spam blacklist from csv file in back end by this way:

1: Login wordpress admin area

2: Click “bbPress Blacklist” menu item

3 Click “Import Blacklist” sub menu item

4 You will open “Import blacklist from csv” Setting panel, it looks like this:

Import blacklist from csv

5 Upload your csv file and click import button, all bbPress spam email or domain will be added into bbPress register email blacklist automatically.

Please note:

#1 You can find sample.csv in the folder “bbpress-blacklist-whitelist”, we have make sample in this csv file, you can just follow our format to build your csv file

#2 In sample.csv, there are only one field: “email blacklist”, you can input email in csv file, or just input domain in here, or even just input some bad words in here, for example adult and so on, then specificed email or emails from specificed domain or email which have bad words will be disabled to registered as users .

#3 If email or domain imported from sample.csv eixsted in system already, duplicated records will be ignored.

How to Install Default Spam Domain lists in bbPress Spam Blacklist Plugin?

By default, bbPress spam blacklist plugin have included a spam domain list, we will add new spam domains into this bbPress spam register domain list in every week, once we found new spam domains.We have put the bbPress spam email domain lists in the csv file:spamemaildomains.csv, which you should can find it at the bbpress blacklist whitelist plugin folder, just import spam email domain list via :bbPress blacklist: menu -> “Import Blacklist” sub menu. In the current time, in the 2020-03, we have added about 364 domains which always register spam users in bbPress forums 🙂

What we doing more for bbPress blacklist plugin now?

We are adding a few more features for bbPress blacklist plugin, for example, stop spammer publish in your bbPress topics and bbpress replies…and so on, if you have any feature request, you are very welcome to tell us via contact us menu.