: How to separate bot user registrations from real people? I've been getting a disproportionately high number of subscribers to my WordPress site relative to the little traffic it receives. I
I've been getting a disproportionately high number of subscribers to my WordPress site relative to the little traffic it receives. I suspect most of these subscribers are bots. Normally I delete any that have a really weird Russian email addresses, but it is getting harder to tell if any of the subscribers are real people or not.
Nobody ever comments or changes profile images, so it just seems like it might be best to disable the comments and registration features.
In particular, I keep getting this one suspicious user who uses the username "Services-Resources." It sounds like a potential exploit for sending out fake emails under my website's name. Registered users only get contributor access, so I don't see what the hackers have to gain other than the satisfaction of annoying the webmaster.
I don't know if I am missing out on something that can do a better job of blocking spam. I currently have a recaptcha, WordFence, and some email scraper blocker plugins (I don't have Akismet anymore).
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You may want to look into a Honeypot plugin. (If you test this option, you may want to turn off reCaptcha temporarily to avoid conflicts. Also, some of the Honeypot plugins haven't been updated in a while, so you may need to do some research, or to pay a few bucks for a premium one.) Otherwise, try to set up activation emails which go out to new users; if they don't click the link, they won't be added to the list.
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