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  • March 22, 2019 at 11:47 am #475894

    Diana
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    Hello.

    Our directory and “add listing” pages stopped loading returning a 404 error pages.

    March 22, 2019 at 11:49 am #475895

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    March 22, 2019 at 11:52 am #475896

    Guust
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    And what is the URL please?

    March 22, 2019 at 11:55 am #475897

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    March 22, 2019 at 12:27 pm #475904

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    March 28, 2019 at 11:57 am #476869

    Diana
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    March 28, 2019 at 12:23 pm #476875

    Guust
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    You are using Buddypress for registration, so all your users at least need to activate their account and therefore are using real email addresses, and they are not robots. They are just desperate people.

    I suggest you change this setting: GD > Design > Listings tab > New listing default status > Pending Review.

    They have figured out that your setting is set to Publish I guess, if they notice that they are not auto-published anymore, they may move on.

    There are some plugins that check against known spammer databases too.

    And charging a fee of course will also stop the spammers.

    Thanks

    March 28, 2019 at 12:28 pm #476876

    Guust
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    I also just noticed you allow reviews without registration.
    You can possibly change your settings at WP Settings > Discussion > Users must be registered and logged in to comment > Yes

    March 28, 2019 at 2:24 pm #476900

    Diana
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    March 28, 2019 at 10:59 pm #477024

    Guust
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    GD does not have an option to restrict access to the Add Listing page depending on role.
    With a plugin like https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/ you can restrict access to the Add Listing page based on roles.
    There are other membership plugins too.
    Thanks

    April 5, 2019 at 5:29 pm #478668

    Diana
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    April 6, 2019 at 1:15 am #478775

    Guust
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    You need to activate GD core only at …/wp-admin/plugins.php and then follow the instructions that pop up.

    Because you are hosted at WordPress, you have no FTP access, so we suggest you replace all addons using this plugin: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/useful-plugins/#easy

    Get the V2 versions at https://wpgeodirectory.com/your-account/
    Make sure to use the V2 versions.

    Note: This is a major update, so it is strongly recommended that you backup your database before start running v1 to v2 data conversion.

    Thanks

    April 7, 2019 at 2:30 pm #479034

    Diana
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    April 7, 2019 at 9:53 pm #479079

    Guust
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    Great. Let us know how you go. I see you still have to do the conversion itself.

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