Hello,
I am being spammed by casinos like crazy so would like to block any username that contains slots, casino or gamble from being created. Is this possible? I have shield, forum anti spam, captcha and even email approval before account can be used or post made, but still get 10-20 casino almost daily - it's driving me nuts.
Any help appreciated
You can turn on the manual approval of new accounts in wpForo > Settings > Login & Registration admin page. Please read the doc: https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/settings/login-registration/#enable-user-manually-approval-system
@robert Thank you, I have changed from the email activation/set password option to manually approve registration instead.
You can try this
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ban-hammer/
but i don't know if it can be used with wildcards.
@dimalifragis Thank you, had not heard of this but on their page they say 'Stop Spammer' is even better so I'm having a look at that and may try it after I do a full backup. I was unaware I could add additional wp plugins to help with the forum running - I thought I could only buy the extra modules for wpforo, so thanks for that (yes, I paid someone to sett his up and am a total novice) 😀
@pudzpud Yes, most people (if not all) think that wpForo is handling users/registrations/logins/emails.
The truth is that wpForo has some nice forms for ease. All the above are handled/queued from/to Wordpress core.