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I can't seem to get registration to work. Every time someone tries to register, it gives an error that says "suspected bot". There are no options to add a captcha, and we can't even get to the point where we could do an email registration confirmation. I've installed a few different captcha programs, but none of them give options to be used in wpforo.
Let me clarify - the captchas show up, but they do nothing. Whether the input is right or wrong, it still gives the error "suspected bot".
This issue doesn't have direct relation to wpForo plugin. wpForo uses WordPress user registration functions. This error comes from other plugins for sure. Please read this support topic: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suspected-bot/
@robert Well, here it is April 2021, and I'm having the same problem. I deactivated all other plugins except WPForo, and I still get the "Bot Suspected" message whenever I try to register as a new user on my staging site. Was there ever a solution found to this, other than plugin conflict? I even turned off ReCaptcha, but no success.
@tintinmilou If it doesn't come from a WP plugin (and you are 100% sure), then it comes from some server-wide protection that your hosting company has.
For example we are using Litespeed webserver and we had to turn its Wordpress protection off.
Ask your hosting company.
