How to Stop WordPress & BuddyBoss Spam for Good

If you are running a BuddyBoss site, you will almost immediately notice an unusually high number of new members joining your WordPress community site every day. This is usually good news, isn’t it? However, they are not adding value, and in the worst case scenario, they are flooding your activity feed and groups with unwanted spam. WP Armour can help you get rid of BuddyBoss spam effectively.

WP Armour

On one of our community sites, we spent a lot of time deleting spam registrations. This is frustrating, but it also leaves a bad taste in the mouths of genuine members.

We have tested almost every single plugin available, both paid and free. However, none of them met all of our requirements:

• A lightweight solution.
• Effectively stop spam submissions.
• No manual approval of member registrations.
• We don’t want to be logged out of our own site anymore. This happened quite often with one of the paid plugins.
• Great user experience.

We had almost given up until we discovered WP Armour. There are no complicated settings. Just install WP Armour Free and Extended (which supports BuddyBoss and others) and the magic begins. We’ve also been using WP Armour for a couple of years now on Ahoi.dev and haven’t had a single spam submission since. As you can see in the screenshot above, it has also stopped WordPress spam comments, spam submissions in Gravity Forms, and more.

Integrations

WP Armour Extended is compatible with a variety of WordPress form and e-commerce plugins, as well as comments and registration on your sites. The 39 available integrations include Gravity Forms, SureForms, WS Form, Fluent Forms, Easy Digital Downloads (EDD), MailPoet, WooCommerce, the Elementor form widget, bbPress and BuddyPress, as well as BuddyBoss.