Turn off user registration?

[maxgaine]

Is there anyway I can just turn off registration so no one can register for an account? I am plagued by hundreds of spammers registering even though I have email verification turned ON. These spammers or spambots are registering and posting without having to verify their emails.. it's crazy!

Any advice helps. Thanks!

[lintu]

Renamed the registration.php page (and updated the link to it on header.php) to something else and that will stop these automated registrations by spammers quite a bit.

[maxgaine]

I can't seem to find registration.php and header.php only the .TPL files. I am running the facelook template. ANy idea which directories these 2 files are located?

[lintu]

You can find these two files here:

\pligg\register.php
\pligg\templates\wistie\header.tpl

[ChuckRoast]

Here is a quick tutorial for doing that in the social pro kit's facelook template.

Rename register.php to something like x3dqR758.php
It can be anything really. As long as it matches up with the code below.

Then open templates/facelook/header.tpl in any kind of text editor and find the line around 104

<a style=" color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;" href='{$URL_register}'>{#PLIGG_Visual_Register#}</a>

Change to the following, note you'll need to replace example.com with your own domain.

<a style=" color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;" href='http://www.example.com/x3dqR758.php'>{#PLIGG_Visual_Register#}</a>

That's all there is to it.

If you want go even further you do the following with the submission process.
Rename submit.php to something like 4Tr8jsvd.php

Then in the same header.tpl file find the following around line 155

<form Method="GET" Action="submit.php?url=">

Change it to

<form Method="GET" Action="4Tr8jsvd.php?url=">

I wouldn't suggest using my exact numbers/characters renaming posted here. The main idea is to make it something obscure.
Hope that helps.

[maxgaine]

Thanks a lot guys.. will try and then follow up!

chuck, it looks like when I rename the "submit.php", it affects my Auto Thumb mod... any idea what I can change in the Auto Thumb mod to match the name change of submit.php ?

Thanks!