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No-Bot Registration – Stop fake accounts

By Arnan de Gans
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Description

Tired of spam bots, false registrations and other spammy nonsense? Don’t wan’t to use a clumsy and user-unfriendly Captcha?
Meet No-Bot Registration, superior protection without making it hard for users. Easily blacklist (partial) email addresses or domains so they can no longer register.
Have unregistered users answer a logic and basic question upon registration. Deny them registration if they fail.

Features

  • Protect registration forms
  • Protect the WooCommerce checkout form if you let people register from there
  • Protect the Classic Commerce checkout form like you do with WooCommerce
  • Protect the comment form
  • Prevents comment spam, trackback spam and other nuisances with ease
  • Set up multiple security questions to further confuse bots
  • Blacklist any email, domain or tld you don’t like
  • Configurable notification messages for users failing the security tests

Screenshots

  • Registration Protection Settings
  • Blacklist Settings
  • Example of security question on registration
  • Example of security question on WooCommerce

Installation

  1. Navigate to Plugins > Add New in your dashboard.
  2. Search for ‘Arnan No-Bot’ or ‘Arnan’ in the plugin database and click install.
  3. Activate the plugin when done.
  4. Navigate to Tools > No-Bot Registration in your dashboard for settings.

FAQ

This looks familiar

  • This plugin is inspired by Mika Epsteins Banhammer plugin with some improved routines and borrows some methods from WP No Bot Question from Digicompitech. I have rewritten most methods to work easier and more efficient. But the core functionality is very similar.

I need help with this plugin

Check out my Support Forum

This is cool, do you have more plugins?

Yep, check out my website AJdG Solutions

Reviews

Great Plugin With Great Support

Andrew1977 Dec 28, 2022 2 replies
Fantastic plugin, with great support!

I think this will help me

Japanese Explorer Nov 30, 2022 2 replies
have not explored anough, but this plugin is works so good

Stopped working

makas Oct 16, 2021 2 replies
I have used it for a long time without any problems, but recently got bombarded with thousands of fake registrations. Even now at this moment as I write a review I get a fake registration every 2 minutes or so. It's sad, used to be a good protection.

Does what it promises

JohnP Sep 28, 2021
I was getting dozens of bot registrations every day. Now I don't.

Works Better Than Captcha

FragMagnet Jul 27, 2021 1 reply
Captcha did literally nothing to stop all the blank spambot registrations clogging up my userlist, but this did the trick and I haven't had a single fake user turn up since installing this plugin.

Work

Alex Molina Maranho Jun 10, 2021
Work

Contributors & Developers

“No-Bot Registration – Stop fake accounts” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors
  • Arnan de Gans

“No-Bot Registration – Stop fake accounts” has been translated into 4 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “No-Bot Registration – Stop fake accounts” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Change log

1.8.2 – 2 January, 2023

  • Fixed better check for filtering comments/registrations
  • Tweak replaced alias functions with actual functions
  • Tweak minor code cleanups

1.8.1 – 30 December, 2022

  • Fixed excempting editors and admins on field check
  • Fixed excluding non-protected fields from field check

1.8 – 22 October, 2022

  • Fixed email error on wrong question answer
  • Fixed redone the filter process (simpler and better hooks/filters)
  • Fixed added native Classic Commerce compatibility
  • Tweak better formatted error message

1.7.12 – 21 October, 2022

  • Fixed support links
  • Fixed compatibility info
  • Fixed plugin links

1.7.11 – 18 October, 2022

  • Added several missing translation strings

1.7.10 – 7 October, 2022

  • Updated support links
  • Tested to work with WordPress 6+

1.7.9 – 25 January, 2022

  • Tested to work with WordPress 5.9
  • Tested to work with ClassicPress 1.3.1

1.7.8 – 20 June, 2021

  • Updated readme.txt
  • Tested to work with WordPress 5.7

1.7.7 – 25 January, 2021

  • Happy New Year
  • Added News&Update links

1.7.6 – 3 August, 2020

  • Updated to work with WordPress 5.5
  • [change] Dashboard tweaks

1.7.5 – 16 July 2020

  • [fix] Captcha trap not always checked
  • [fix] Empty question list causing array errors

1.7.4 – 3 February, 2020

  • [fix] Review notification linking to wrong dashboard url
  • [fix] Deleting answers not always removing an variation
  • [change] New style for notification banners

1.7.3 – 4 October, 2019

  • [fix] Not always showing the captcha if WooCommerce protection is on
  • [change] Dashboard tweaks
  • [change] Moved dashboard to Tools Menu

1.7.2 – 9 September, 2019

  • [fix] Dashboard widgets showing properly
  • [i18n] Updated translations

1.7.1 – 30 August, 2019

  • [change] Dashboard tweaks
  • [i18n] Updated translations

1.7 – 21 August, 2019

  • [change] Updated dashboard
  • [change] WordPress 5.2.2 compatibility
  • [i18n] Updated translation implementation

1.6.1 – 16 June, 2019

  • [change] Updated dashboard
  • [fix] Wrong url in plugin links

1.6 – 29 May, 2019

  • [fix] Not able to hide Rate plugin banner
  • [change] Answers are now case-insensitive, ‘Nine’ and ‘nine’ are the same
  • [i18n] Added more strings to translate
  • [i18n] Updated translation file

1.5 – 9 May, 2019

  • [change] WordPress 5.2 compatibility
  • [fix] Improved WooCommerce compatibility
  • [change] Updated dashboard

1.4 – 26 March, 2019

  • [change] WordPress 5.0 compatibility
  • [change] Updated dashboard

1.3 – 8 July, 2018

  • [new] Bot trap in registration forms
  • [new] Bot trap in comment form
  • [change] Updated dashboard

1.2.3 – 3 June, 2018

  • [fix] Close link on notification not working

1.2.2 – 17 May, 2018

  • [change] Compatibility update
  • [change] Updated dashboard
  • [change] Cleaned up CSS
  • [i18n] Added missing translation strings
  • [i18n] Updated translation files

1.2.1 – 13 December, 2017

  • Dashboard tweaks
  • Removed unused assets
  • Compatibility update

1.2 – 14 May, 2017

  • Dashboard tweaks

1.1 – 19 April, 2017

  • Improved WooCommerce compatibity
  • Fixed security field on my-account page of WooCommerce
  • Dashboard tweaks

1.0 – 24 February, 2017

  • First release

Meta

  • Version: 1.8.2
  • Last updated: 4 weeks ago
  • Active installations: 1,000+
  • WordPress Version: 4.9 or higher
  • Tested up to WordPress Version: 6.1.1
  • Languages:

    English (US), Spanish (Colombia), Spanish (Ecuador), Spanish (Spain), and Spanish (Venezuela).

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  • Tags:
    accountbotprotectionspam
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  • 2 stars 1
  • 1 star 3
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Contributors

  • Arnan de Gans

Support

Issues resolved in last two months:

4 out of 4

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