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I don’t think this posted the first time. My client has started receiving a series of garbled event submissions. We are using the latest version of The Events Calendar Pro and The Community Events Addon. Any idea whee this problem can be coming from. Here are two of the emails. The Event Name and the lower url listing are effected.
From: WordPress [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 11:58 AM
To: Lyann Graff
Subject: [The Last Green Valley] Community Events Submission: “htHjKLkfsJTqwuyeDoz”htHjKLkfsJTqwuyeDoz
November 28 @ 4:50 pm – November 28 @ 4:50 pm
Event Organizer
Griswold Bicentennial Committee & CT Museum of Natural History
Event Venue
Pachaug River
Description
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From: WordPress [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 6:41 AM
To: Lyann Graff
Subject: [The Last Green Valley] Community Events Submission: “idibjPfDtOZWA”idibjPfDtOZWA
December 8 @ 11:40 am – December 8 @ 11:40 am
Event Organizer
Norwich Free Academy, Slater Memorial Museum, The Norwich Historical Society, NCDC
Event Venue
Walktover – Asylum St.
Description
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Hi there, Paul! Thanks for getting in touch and welcome back to the forums. 🙂
It looks like your client received a spam submission from the Community Events form.
The form does include protection against spam, though nothing will catch 100% of spam. The best way to prevent spam is to disable the ability for anonymous visitors to submit events. Head over to Events > Settings > Community and make sure the option to “Allow anonymous submissions” if left unchecked, then save your settings.
Once you do that, the only visitors who are able to submit events using the form will be real people since they first have to register an account with the site.
Cheers!
GeoffHi there, Paul! Just checking in to see if there’s been any further update or if you still need assistance on this one–let me know. 🙂
By the way, we’ve since released a newer version of the Community Events plugin and one of the features is reCAPTCHA integration, which adds more protection against spam submissions. You can activate it by heading over to Events > Settings > Community, and following the instructions at the bottom of the screen under the “reCAPTCHA API Keys” section.
Cheers!
Geoff
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