Automatically populating with fake events

[Anonymous]

I have just installed EME on a site and for some weird reason it’s automatically populated with tonnes – literally hundreds of bogus events for the current day. All have New York as their location. I am at a loss as to how to delete / remove for ever these events. I have only around 8 of my own keyed in. The show up in nearly all permutations of filtering. I wish to have people inputting events as ‘draft’ but I’ve little hope of finding new events to approve if the plugin is bunged up with hundreds that I didn’t create. Any ideas how to remove them forever?

[Franky]

I only add 3 events as a demo … maybe some old DB table was left and eme took it in …
But: put all on 1 page, search on “New York” and you can then delete all in one go

[Anonymous]

There are 2,140 entries for an alphabetical list – names actually – of fake events. I can’t get them all on one page as I can only show 100 at a time. I have tried deleting them in batches before and they just reappear. The search won’t work to show them on one page. I have no idea what to do except deactivate the plugin! My site has just gone down – the host pulled it – due to high script calls. not sure if the plugin is related to that. Any ideas how I can keep my 8 events and get rid of thousands!

[Anonymous]

OK now it’s really weird. I have deleted them in batches of 100 from all events>event status> and I thought they’d been deleted. Now, if I put all events>event status>all categories i get the entire list back again but kind of with a yellow-beige overlay. I can’t check box anything to delete them.

The other weird thing is that I now can’t see the events I listed. all events>public>all categories brings them up for a mili second and they disappear. I can’t see them but they are still there front end. I can’t access them at all!

Any ideas what I can do? This is urgent as I go away for two weeks with limited site access and can’t leave it like this.

[Anonymous]

I get this:

Showing 0 to 0 of 0 entries (filtered from 14 total entries)

My events are there but not rendering at all backend.

[Franky]

In EME once an event is deleted it is deleted, no trash box. I think there’s something seriously wrong with your database, or you have some front-end activated where people are spamming you with new events (though unlikely).
You say you entered 8 events, and was it already like that before? Because you said you just installed EME, so somehow either this started after you entered your events, or they were there already.
In EME settings, you can activate a setting to remove all EME tables upon deactivation. I suggest you use that option, deactivate/reactivate and the re-enter your events.

[Anonymous]

I moved a site from Bitnami to live and when I did that, the plugin started doing this. I had the eight events already keyed in on localhost. It looks like I have to delete and start again and see if that does it.

[Anonymous]

Just remembered that the only thing I changed when moving the site was to add categories. When I did that, I think that’s when the whole thing started populating with fake events.

[Anonymous]

OK, I deactivated and reactivated and lost all those fake events. But I still can’t see your three listings for more than a flickr of a milisecond!

Is this plugin compatible with genesis? Or does it conflict with other well-used plugins as I don’t have many installed?

I can therefore add a new event but never go in to edit it.

[Anonymous]

I am sorry to say that the plugin is once more generating fake event entries (titles and location, not body text). I now have another 200+ and counting all New York events. I deactivated and deleted and reactivated and all was fine for the first couple of events I keyed in. Then I noticed the huge lists again! I have no idea what to do. I removed the map API in case it was that.

I will stop keying in my events as clearly the plugin is mal functioning. I’ll see if it does more by itself and let you know. Otherwise, it would have been a fantastic plugin, sadly not working for me.

[Anonymous]

Sorry to add another comment but I am sure there is some spam thing happening as the fake event just won’t stop. I have now removed the EME Front End Submit although it’s a form I need. I will monitor things. I’ve also removed the google map api.

The fake events have ‘names’. See below. The 1 & 3 are my events. Either side are the ‘name’ events, fake and auto generated, Is there no way I can stop this? Hundreds and hundreds appear each time I come back into the site:

Tenor Cliff Zammit Stevens in Concert
Music Public
View event

Serenity
Heritage & Museums Draft
Preview event New York
yZVrBYvgwwUAaGqPTcx – New York

Qormi Wine Festival
Food & Drink Public
View event

Mervin
Heritage & Museums Draft
Preview event New York
EcgfMkEbLIKYfRnr – New York

[Anonymous]

The front-end submit EME form plugin is getting spam bot attacks. Since I deleted it from the site, I haven’t had any bogus events listed.

Would you be able to put some security on the form captcha etc so this doesn’t happen? I would appreciate that as I need third parties to key in their own events.

[Franky]

The front end can use a captcha. Activate the captcha option in the settings and include in your frontend template the captcha field by using EMEFS::field(‘captcha’) there.
See the FAQ: https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-made-easy-frontend-submit/faq/
Edit: I also recommend to put some security on your wordpress page for the frontend submit. The plugin can require people to be logged in into wordpress for this, or simpler: put a wordpress password on that page.

[Anonymous]

Hi, I was just using your default form. I am not sure how to create a template so will have to see how to do that. Great that is has captcha. I’ll work it out! It’s incredible how those spam bots infilitrate! Thanks for your help.

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