BOP - Thanks. I realized what the optional edit meant only later and then forgot where to look. I just assumed it would be enabled below the navbar by default.

Regarding the second issue - I realize that I have another mod on my forum. I'll explain the one part about this great mod - which will improve things for most - but I feel makes it less useful for me.

I want users registering and posting asap. I do not want to force them to validate email or wait to check it and then find their password. Both creates a time lag and potential complications, especially when these emails go to the spam folder.

The captcha is what helps to separate the humans from the bots. While it makes the fast registration less fast, it's still much faster than forcing new users to confirm their email address and then login. So what is the ideal? To have users logged in after hitting "join" and having their password sent to them in email. If they don't get it, they will be able to recover their password if they don't know it or will already be logged in already from the initial autologin. This keeps users on the forum at all times. Makes sense?

I have to say l like the current version the most.

Email verification is very important, with a popup reminder to fill in correct email, that's more than enough for legit members who want to participate. Members without valid emails usually don't post follow-up to their threads, which bothers our core members.

Regarding the human verification, I haven't seen any bot registrations. If we use a custom file name, with only a few hundred forums using this mod, I don't think spammers will target this mod. Human verification is not just one more field, it makes the registration several times more complicated.

will try it out, thanks for it.

^ Nevermind, I read everypage but the last :)

Would be great to add a Q/A on it. Since installing it a few hours ago I have had 22 spam accounts, granted they cannot complete registration but thats bad news for my newsletters I send out, lots of fake members...

That is odd to me. I have my website up 9+ years and have been literally hammered by spammers and trying to block them every day.

Up until which I installed this mod.

My setup:
Really Fast Registration by BOP installed
Change registration filename by BOP installed
Allow registrations - vb OEM - turned OFF

What this configuration allows is that :
any bot will not find if looking for register.php...
If the bot is programmed to find the registration page then it will just get the error page with registrations turned off...

It ends up like a honeypot, at least for me.

That said the occasional human can figure out how if they want to spam. With that I have denied access of most IP's owned in China,Vietnam, Russian Federation and India using entries in my htaccess file. (I do not cater to these countries anyway so I am not missing out on desired traffic.

Result of several months of RFR,... only one human spammer, quickly snubbed manually.

It has been so much easier for me now to manage spam.

edit to add- I do have q&a still setup for things like the Contact Form.

How would I add this to all my templates? For forum and CMS and blog? Not sure which templates to edit...

Just take this --> and paste it in your advertisements - under navbar, thats what I did anyway.

Its not working, which template did you go into? Thanks!

This mod provides high flexibility to put anywhere you want. I really like that.