{"id":82,"date":"2013-02-28T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T12:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2013-02-28T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T12:27:11","slug":"protect-your-simple-machines-forum-from-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/protect-your-simple-machines-forum-from-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect your Simple Machines Forum from SPAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simple Machines Forum<\/strong> SMF in short is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fulcrum.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-83 aligncenter\" alt=\"SMF Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fulcrum-300x119.png\" width=\"350\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fulcrum-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fulcrum-1024x406.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fulcrum-624x247.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI &#8211; or Server Side Includes &#8211; function you can let your forum and your website interact with each other. It is designed to provide you with all the features you need from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server. SMF is the next generation of forum software.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have installed <strong>SMF <\/strong>one more task remains is to restrict bots from your forum. SMF can be installed with one click via Softaculous.<\/p>\n<p>How to restrict bots from your SMF installation :<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Email Activation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turn on email activation for all new registered members.<\/li>\n<li>Login to Admin panel \u00bb Administration Center \u00bb Registration \u00bb Settings<\/li>\n<li>Choose the method of registration for new members.<\/li>\n<li>This will not allow new members to post unless they activate their account.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2. Code Verification before posting for new members<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Login to Admin panel \u00bb Administration Center \u00bb Security and Moderation \u00bb Anti-Spam<\/li>\n<li>Change the value for \u201cPost count under which users must pass verification to make a post\u201d value\u00a0to\u00a010 (or more if you want).<\/li>\n<li>This will ask the user to pass verification unless they reach the above amount of posts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3. Code Verification for new Registrations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Login to Admin panel \u00bb Administration Center \u00bb Security and Moderation \u00bb Anti-Spam<\/li>\n<li>Enable \u201cRequire verification on registration page\u201d<\/li>\n<li>This will make all the new registrations to enter a verification code in order to register on your forum.<\/li>\n<li>Choose among the various verification methods available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4. That&#8217;s it !!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have made the registration process difficult for the bots.<\/li>\n<li>And even if they manage to register they wont be able to mess up due to code verification added in step 2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source : <a title=\"codefap.com\" href=\"http:\/\/codefap.com\" target=\"_blank\">codefap.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple Machines Forum SMF in short is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI &#8211; or Server Side Includes &#8211; function&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/protect-your-simple-machines-forum-from-spam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Protect your Simple Machines Forum from SPAM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25,8,24,23,167],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-tips","tag-forums","tag-secure","tag-simple-machines-forum","tag-smf","tag-softaculous","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softaculous.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}