Unwanted new user registrations

CMS & WordPress
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I have always wondered, how do these spammy user registrations appear in the backend under ‘users’ when there’s no login facility on the front end.

Any help appreciated.

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It’s most likely that registration/profile pages are accessible somewhere to people who know the URL syntax, and that leaves a back door for spammer, often they attempt to insert spam links in member profiles.

Some things you can do:

  1. Turn off registrations - any decent CMS will have a setting for that
  2. Change the URL’s to member/registration pages to something obscure
  3. Lock down registration template access to only authorised users
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Check your Settings on the Dashboard. Under ‘Discussion’ there is an option to check/uncheck “Users must be registered and logged in to comment”. The default comments template has a register form if a user wishes to make a comment on an article. Also in ‘General’ there is an option to check/uncheck " nyone can register". Go through all of the settings and make sure everything is set up the way you want.

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Excellent advice! Wordpress 101 I guess.
I should have known :flushed:

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