Anti captcha has stopped it dead for me

Its not stopping real registrations because I have done a test, and both users were able to have a perfect registration and check out flow. Plus all comments are assembled in the spam folder where you can check them before emptying the spam folder with one click.

Thats what I said; its stopping spam registrations, not the real ones.

Its stopping both spam regs and comments.

There are email registrations and there are spam comments.
So far, I received only some registrations and fortunately no comments.
I think, my wordpress installation has some automatic captcha that accepts the user registrations but doesn't allow to continue with comments.
If anybody feels like testing it, go ahead and try to enter a comment on my site. I'll report back.

Where are the registrations stored, and how to delete them?

In the left hand column, click Users>All Users. There is a list. You can keep or delete as you wish.

Yet another reason why I can't stand forcing Registrations. It just opens your site up to more spam. Basically everyday I need to delete 5 to 10 emails alerting me that I've had a new "registration", and about 20 more spam posts which Askimet catches. Great fun.

BTW how do you kill the email notifications? I don't need to know every time someone (or some bot) registers.

Maybe remove your email from Symbiostock>Settings>Correspondence Email? Heres what that says:

Settings  � Email Settings Correspondence Email � The specific email address your site will use in sending automated messages to customer, and what they will respond to if they wish.
You may notice that when Symbiostock installs, a little email plugin is installed as well. If you deactivate this plugin, your Symbiostock correspondence system will break. Wordpress requires a plugin to change email settings for some reason. You an pre-write customer welcome and thank you email messages on the Settings page.

Anti captcha is not working for me. I am getting at least 2-3 spam comments from my contact us page

I have both.

Make sure you install Askimet. Askimet catches on average 40 to 50 spam comments per day for me.

Yes, i deleted 172 spams a couple of days ago. Which brings up a question...on each of those spams, to the right, was one of my photos, as tho the spam is a comment on a photo. But i have been turning off comments and pingbacks in the image upload window. Can anyone explain why? Is there another setting somewhere i have missed?

Spam is a sign of health. Djp I haven't forgotten about you 

Yes, i deleted 172 spams a couple of days ago. Which brings up a question...on each of those spams, to the right, was one of my photos, as tho the spam is a comment on a photo. But i have been turning off comments and pingbacks in the image upload window. Can anyone explain why? Is there another setting somewhere i have missed?

I tried to take a look at your website, but I couldn't get in after about 10 tries.

Quote from: cathyslife stockphotos.com on August 06, 2013, 09:52

Yes, i deleted 172 spams a couple of days ago. Which brings up a question...on each of those spams, to the right, was one of my photos, as tho the spam is a comment on a photo. But i have been turning off comments and pingbacks in the image upload window. Can anyone explain why? Is there another setting somewhere i have missed?

I tried to take a look at your website, but I couldn't get in after about 10 tries.

Thanks for trying to take a look. I will go see whats going on but my first guess is bluehost. 


Edit:my site is down but a clients is not. Clearly they are having issues (still). Might have to make a switch this weekend.

Quote from: djpadavona on August 06, 2013, 09:13

Make sure you install Askimet. Askimet catches on average 40 to 50 spam comments per day for me.

Yes, i deleted 172 spams a couple of days ago. Which brings up a question...on each of those spams, to the right, was one of my photos, as tho the spam is a comment on a photo. But i have been turning off comments and pingbacks in the image upload window. Can anyone explain why? Is there another setting somewhere i have missed?

I took a look at your website and didn't see anywhere to add a comment.  So I then did a Google search and found this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acathyslifestockphotos.com+comment&oq=site%3Acathyslifestockphotos.com+comment&aqs=chrome.0.69i57j69i58.2844j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

i keep getting all these weird changes to my website. I thought i was done with the setup.

This might happen if your host has to reload your website from a backup.  In other words, if the server crashes and they need to rebuild it from scratch, they will most likely rebuild it from backups.  And the backups might not contain the most recent changes that you made.

Quote from: cathyslife stockphotos.com on August 06, 2013, 15:20

i keep getting all these weird changes to my website. I thought i was done with the setup.

This might happen if your host has to reload your website from a backup.  In other words, if the server crashes and they need to rebuild it from scratch, they will most likely rebuild it from backups.  And the backups might not contain the most recent changes that you made.

Sounds logical but they have not reloaded my website from a backup. My site looks good...the couple of things I did over the weekend are there. That doesn't seem like it's the issue.

Weird goings on... an example. When I do a google search of site:cathyslifestockphotos.com I don't get anything like you are getting, with title with Royalty Free Content in there. The items in my search are exactly as they should be. Screenshot attached. I went through 10 pages of search and they are all correct. And what are those Metadata Sheets from?

I just don't think this is a bluehost thing.

Its about time I jump in:

OK - here's what it is. Hopefully everyone finds this extremely helpful.

Spammers will kill you when your popular, but right now you can be happy to see them because your obviously easy to find.

Still...

http://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-comments/ <--- solve-all

Another one:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/bad-behavior/ <--- good, but must be set up properly.

There's still more which will make you almost invincible, but I am afraid more threads will pop up about customer buy issues being blamed on Symbiostock, so I don't go in great depth.

As you know spammers are using automated software. So left on autopilot their software keeps hammering your site and will melt your server.

Symbiostock sites are unique in two ways:

1. They sell images, and have LOTS of pages and tags.
2. They are easy to find.

This translates to lots of database use, which your host will kick you for if you go overboard, and ask you to leave.

http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/ <--again, must be set up properly to avoid customer complaints.

The spammers will drive you "overboard" easily with their redundant and persistent "hits" on pages as they try to leave comments.

If your ready to "lock down" do it right, because you don't want to shut out buyers or paypal.

In the meantime, its another gauge to see your doing well ... a sign of health.

Regarding "BAD BEHAVIOR" plugin which works wonders - it takes special settings:
http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-technical-support/symbiostock-plugin-compatability-issues-and-reports/