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Macsee · #1 11-01-2012, 07:00 PM

OK, there are numerous plugins to combat bot registrations, and I'm using several of them.

But it seems one simple solution would be to confuse bots. Bots arrive looking to fill in a form on register.php. So if you have no form there and just some text telling users that you've moved the page to new_register.php ... that could turn out quite neat!

I'd like to try it.

One caution: If you do change the name of your register.php file, you'll also need to make changes within the file. Is that easy to do and what would need to be changed? Can I just find and replace all instances of register.php with new_register.php?

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