Kunena 6.3.0 released
The Kunena team has announce the arrival of Kunena 6.3.0 [K 6.3.0] in stable which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for J! 4.4.x/5.0.x/5.1.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 6.2 and issues discovered during the last development stages of K 6.3
Merged How to protect my forum from spam
- LittleJohn
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I also saw this thread, which could help admins on the same quest:
www.kunena.com/forum/119-feature-request...g-able-to-post-links
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- jeff_j_dunlap
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I'm really glad about this because each morning, I have to go in to my forum to clean up a bunch of undesirable posts that discredit my website.
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At any rate, the offending line is currently in /components/com_kunena/template/default/fb_write.html.php on line 270. It says:
if ($fbConfig->captcha == 1 && $kunena_my->id < 1) ?>
It can be changed to:
if ($fbConfig->captcha == 1) { ?>
Then to make sure that ths code is checked, you need to change line 62 of /components/com_kunena/template/default/post.php from:
if ($fbConfig->captcha== 1 && $kunena_my->id < 1) {
to:
if ($fbConfig->captcha== 1) {
Standard warnings apply: this would be a hack and would be overwritten when you upgrade Kunena.
Kunena Developers: Ideally the config option would be changed to a three-value list:
0=Never use Captch
1=Use Captcha when users are not logged in
2=Always use Captcha
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See also Replace captcha with reCaptcha for some more up-to-date views on this subject.
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Of course, the version that I am using that doesn't have a working Captcha feature in it was downloaded only about 2 weeks ago and the post you mentioned was only 3 days old, so the "lot" that has happened has not changed this, yet. And will using reCaptcha change the way the config works?
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First thank you all for the great forum software. I run many forums and mainly vBulletin however I just set up a website with kunena and loving it.
The website and forum are new (one week old) and I'm getting daily registrations and posts (spam).
My question is what options this software offer to fight spam, automated registration bots, etc. Is there any recaptcha at the registration process? Any tips tricks are really appreciated because I dont have time to keep up with this bots (assuming) and delete posts manually.
Thank you for your time and help.
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- LittleJohn
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The registration and login process is handled by Joomla. You might want to look for some extensions in the Joomla Extensions for that.
Please beware, that you cannot seek help for those extensions here.
I found this at my first search: extensions.joomla.org/extensions/access-...authentication/10802
Also, Kunena has some captcha service in the administrator panel, which can easily be turned on.
I think it goes under the name "Antiflood protection" but I really cant remember.
Some of these features (maybe combined), may be what you are looking for?
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v2 now has native Kunena support, and will prevent spam postings using checks against Linksleeve and Akismet.
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- LittleJohn
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I have seen that plugin too, but have not tried it myself yet.
Do you know if it is possible to turn it off for logged in users?
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