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7 Ways to Prevent Fake Registrations on WordPress (with CleanTalk)
Fake registrations are more than a minor admin inconvenience. They fill your database with junk accounts, waste moderation time, reduce signup quality, and make it harder to understand what real user activity looks like. For WordPress sites, this problem is especially common. Registration forms are public by design, which makes them an easy target for
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Performance Update: Slow load times on some sites, fix in progress
We’re aware that some of you are experiencing slow website load times, or Cleantalk warning, This is due to increased server load from our growing number of clients, and we’re actively working to fix it. Our plugin team has already optimized asynchronous JavaScript loading. The updated plugins are available now through support, and will be…
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Standard WordPress Registration Forms Spam Protection Guide in 2026
If your website uses the default WordPress signup flow, spam registrations can become a real problem surprisingly quickly. Bots scan the web for open signup pages, submit fake user data, and fill WordPress sites with junk accounts that never behave like real users. For standard WordPress websites, this usually happens through the default registration endpoint.…
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Reducing Disk Load in High-Traffic PHP Applications: Switching from SQLite to Redis for Anti-Crawler Storage
Automated crawlers and scraping bots are a growing problem for modern websites. While search engine bots are useful, many other crawlers generate excessive traffic, scrape content, or overload servers. To help website owners control this type of traffic, we recently released the Anti-Crawler PHP Library by CleanTalk, an open-source tool designed to detect and limit…
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How Much Server Resources Spam Bots Waste
When you look at your hosting invoice, you see CPU, RAM, disk and traffic.What you don’t see is the hidden line: How much of this is spent on spam bots instead of real users. Today a big part of web traffic is no longer human. Bad bots: For your server, each of these bots looks…
