What is BuddyPress Blacklist Plugin?

BuddyPress Blacklist Plugin is a buddypress plugin which allow you build a blacklist to prevent spammers register as your users.

Why I need BuddyPress Blacklist Plugin?

One day when I try to reply users email ticket, I get an error notify which told me I over the limitation of SMTP, I checked all my settings and everything is works well, finally in wordpress users menu, I found I have about 10,000 users in a few days, and nearly all of these users is sapmmers  and all of them have same email domains. In web logs I find hugh register records, I tried black these IPs in .htaccess, it seems works, but a few days later, I found these spammers change their IP for each spam account, so I decide develop a plugin to block these spammers email domain, this is why I develop the buddypress blacklist plugin.

How BuddyPress Blacklist Plugin Working?

BuddyPress Blacklist Plugin will hook wordpress register API to scan each wordpress / buddypress standard new user registration progress, when we found there are any email address is listed in blacklist, we will prevent the registering on your site, and tell spammers: “Sorry: Your email address is not allowed in this site”. On my buddypress site,  it looks like this:

How to install buddypress blacklist plugin?

It is very simple:

#1 Please download buddypress blacklist plugin in https://membersonly.top.

#2 Please login your wordpress admin area and click “Plugins” menu item,then click “Add New” sub menu item

#3 In “Add Plugins” panel, click “upload plugin” button and upload the plugin zip file and activate the plugin

That’s all

How to use buddypress blacklist plugin?

It is very easy to use buddypress blacklist plugin. After installed buddypress black plugin, you will find Blacklist-Whitelist menu item, please click Blacklist-Whitelist menu and then you will open Email Blacklist Settings panel, it looks like this:

In “Email Blacklist Settings” panel, you can build your email blacklist in “email blacklist” option  by this way:

#1 Enter one email per line

#2 You can enter email address or email domain or any bad words which should not included in email address
For example:

• “admin@mysite.com” means block this email address, it can not be used to register user in your site
• “mysite.com” means block this email domain, any email address include the word “mysite.com” can not be used to register user in your site
• “sex” means block this word, any email address include the word “sex” can not be used to register user in your site

Then in frontend, when users try to registered as a members of your site, if any bad words or email address / email domains in blacklist be detected in user email address, they will get a error notify “Sorry: Your email address is not allowed in this site” and they can not register as your site members.

What we doing more for buddypress blacklist plugin now?

We are adding a few more features for buddypress blacklist plugin, for example, stop spammer publish in your buddypress activity…and so on, if you have any feature request, you are very welcome to tell us via contact us menu.

Just $5, you will stop spammers register as your member and stop them publish in your buddypress network!

Updated at 2019-05-21 by support: Features of BuddyPress Blacklist Plugin