Let's kill some spam!
Finally wpForo got built-in Spam Control and Filtering functions. They are under active development and the first version is already available with wpForo 1.2.0.
IMPORTANT - SPAM File Attachments!
Once wpForo is updated, please navigate to Dashboard > Forums > Tools admin page and check the "Possible Spam Attachments" section. We detected massive spam file uploading cases in non-protected forums. Spammers delete their topics and posts but uploaded spam files are still in your file system, most of those are PDF files. Please delete all suspected PDF files listed in this section. If you're not sure which file is spam, we recommend backup /wp-content/uploads/wpforo/ folder before starting to delete. Files are marked with different colors:
- Blue | Files with risky extensions (pdf, doc, etc...)
(25% spam suspicion) - Orange | Files with risky extensions and risky words in filename
(50% spam suspicion) - Red | Files with risky extensions and are not attached to any post
(80% spam suspicion) - Dark Red | Files with risky extensions, words in names and are not attached to any post (90% spam suspicion)
wpForo Spam Control & Akismet
You can see wpForo Spam Control options in screenshot above. wpForo 1.2.0 comes with Antispam Tools to control and protect your forum against spam as much as possible.
- Spam Control
- New Registered User Control
- Spam Attachments Control
- Topic & Post Moderation - Approve/Unapprove
- Akismet integration
wpForo Spam Control will check new topics and posts of new registered users and set them Unapproved if spam is suspected. You also can activate Akismet and let them work together.
If you want to manually moderate/approve all topics and posts you should uncheck/disable "Can pass moderation" permission in according Usergroup. For example in regular Registered Usergroup settings:
Topic and Post Moderation
You can Approve / Unapprove / Delete all topics and posts in Dashboard > Forums > Moderation admin age.
You can see number of Unapproved topics posts and auto-banned users in orange round indicator on Dashboard menus:
If topic or post is Unapproved it's only available for topic/post creator and for forum Admins/Moderators.
Full changelog:
- Added: wpForo Spam Control - New User
- Added: New Dashboard subMenu - Forums > Tools > Antispam
- Antispam: Possible Spam Attachments - lists suspected files
- Antispam: New Registered Users control and restrictions
- Antispam: Min number of posts to be able attach files
- Antispam: Min number of posts to be able post links
- Antispam: Restricts New Users to attach risky file extensions
- Antispam: Integration with Akismet
- Added: wpForo Spam Control - Topics & Posts
- Added: New Dashboard subMenu - Forums > Moderation
- Antispam: Makes topics/posts unapproved if spam is suspected
- Antispam: Topic moderation through dashboard Approve/Unapprove/Delete
- Antispam: Bans new registered users if spam content is detected
- Antispam: New Forum Access - "Can pass moderation"
- Added: RTL Font-Awesome
- Added: Swedish Translation (sv_SE) by Mathias Persson
- Fixed Bug: Don't allow empty topics and posts
- Fixed Bug: Post Link URL problem (pagination part in URL)
- Fixed Bug: Notice: Undefined index: set in .../class-template.php
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Hi Robert! Nice news!
I would like to ask you about fixing a problem with rewrite rules flushing? I can not use a cache plugin for my Custom Post Types (made with Pods) due wpForo flushes rewrite rules.
Is there any time-frame for forum sitemap.xml?
Forum search also not allow to search by exact phrase. Any plans on this?
Thanks!
Hi Robert! Nice news!
I would like to ask you about fixing a problem with rewrite rules flushing? I can not use a cache plugin for my Custom Post Types (made with Pods) due wpForo flushes rewrite rules.
This is in our to-do list of the next 1.2.1 release.
Is there any time-frame for forum sitemap.xml?
I'm sorry but not yet. We'll probably work on this next month.
Forum search also not allow to search by exact phrase. Any plans on this?
Not planned.
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Hi Robert, great update.
Can you tell please do we need to update files if we have customizations in child theme?
What was the version you've updated? If the custom theme was created with 1.1.2 you don't need to update. The lower versions should be updated.
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Thank you for this addition to wpForo!
Is it mandatory to activate Akismet?
Akismet is not mandatory, but recommended.
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Possible first bug?
Just installed 1.2.0 without a glitch.
In no time I got a message of possible spam attachment.
Well, this is a file that I've uploaded to the media library and not as attachment to a post and the owner is the admin...
So why is it flagged as spam?
Thank you.
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Possible first bug?
Just installed 1.2.0 without a glitch.
In no time I got a message of possible spam attachment.
All is correct, this is not a bug. It's not flagged as spam it's suspected as spam the title of this section is "Possible Spam Files". Probably the reason is you don't use this file in any post or the filename is non-recognizable/non-searchable. Please make sure this file is used in forum posts. We'll add new option in next release to Ignore suspected file attachments.
wpForo Spam Control only scans /wp-content/uploads/wpforo/ directory. This file was uploaded to wpForo attachments directory. There is no way to upload file from Media Library to wpForo attachment directory, you've uploaded it by creating a forum post, which was deleted.
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Thanks,
This file is used for internal documentation for admins of wpForo install and customization 🙂
wpForo Spam Control only scans /wp-content/uploads/wpforo/ directory. This file was uploaded to wpForo attachments directory. There is no way to upload file from Media Library to wpForo attachment directory, you've uploaded it by creating a forum post, which was deleted.
Please use WordPress Media Uploader to do this kind of uploads. Don't put it in wpForo attachment folder if you don't use it in posts.
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>> Fixed Bug: Don't allow empty topics and posts
It woks, but not user friendly. It is better to check post empty or not on client side and activate or deactivate Submit button.
Sure, this was only done for antispam purposes. We'll improve it for sure.
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Hi Robert, great update.
Can you tell please do we need to update files if we have customizations in child theme?
What was the version you've updated? If the custom theme was created with 1.1.2 you don't need to update. The lower versions should be updated.
I updated anyway to make sure all will be fine, thank you.
If I may continue from here:
https://wpforo.com/community/wpforo-announcements/wpforo-1-2-0-is-released/#post-7907
Is there a way to flag a file as safe and/or to eliminate by a filter files of trusted members like admins and moderators?
Thank you
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