BuddyPress Security Check
Important: Since version 2.0, this plugin now requires at least PHP 5.3. Please ensure you are running the latest available version of PHP on your server. This plugin adds Google’s reCAPTCHA to the BuddyPress registration page and WordPress login page to prevent bots from registering and keep your site free from spam registrations. reCAPTCHA is “tough on bots, easy on humans”: while it is increbianle effective on preventing bots from registering, most of the time all the user needs to do to verify themselves is simply check a box. After installing this plugin, you will need to register your site with Google (requires a Google account) and enter the site key and secret key on the Settings > BuddyPress > Options admin menu. If you would prefer not to use Google’s service, there is an alternative security check method also available; see below; Prior to version 2.0, a less effective security check method was used where the user needed to answer simple math sum before registering. This method is still available, and can be turned on on the Settings > BuddyPress > Options menu. You can learn more at the plugin’s website, or on GitHub Translations Thanks to the awesome work of the following translators, this plugin can be used in these languages: Indonesian thanks to Jordan Silaen from ChameleonJohn.com Russian thanks to Howard Steele from SuperbWebsiteBuilders.com Swedish thanks to Thord D. Hedengren French thanks to Frédérick Baldo Serbo-Croatian thanks to Andrijana Nikolic from WebHostingGeeks and Ogi Djuraskovic from FirstSiteGuide.com Spanish thanks to Renato Alves Hungarian thanks to Laszlo Espadas Brazilian Portuguese thanks to Renato Alves Danish thanks to Andreas Bjørn Hassing Nielsen Italian thanks to Nicole Curioni Belarusian thanks to Natasha from uStarCash If you have a translation to contribute, please sent it through to me by email or on GitHub.
CIDRAM
CIDRAM (Classless Inter-Domain Routing Access Manager) is a PHP script designed to protect websites by blocking requests originating from IP addresses regarded as being sources of undesirable traffic, including (but not limited to) traffic from non-human access endpoints, cloud services, spambots, scrapers, etc. It does this by calculating the possible CIDRs of the IP addresses supplied from inbound requests and then attempting to match these possible CIDRs against its signature files (these signature files contain lists of CIDRs of IP addresses regarded as being sources of undesirable traffic); If matches are found, the requests are blocked. Requirements PHP >= 7.2.0 PCRE Updating Note: CIDRAM does not interact in any way with your database, and stores its own configuration settings, customisations, and related materials as flatfiles within its own directory. If you’ve not changed any of the default configuration settings and if you’re not using any customisations for this plugin, updating normally via the plugins dashboard, without need for any additional steps, should be sufficient and shouldn’t cause any problems. However, if you’ve modified the configuration settings for CIDRAM, or if you’ve made any customisations, I would recommend making backups of all of these prior to updating, due to that updating will overwrite all settings and customisations (after updating, you can then restore your customisations from your backups). Alternatively, if you update via the CIDRAM front-end updates page, all settings and customisations should be preserved.
