Help – Spammers keep signing up to my website
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Hi everyone,
I have recently had a big problem with people who I believe are spammers signing up to my website as administrators even though I have configure the website to be able to manually approve new users and I have not checked the Anyone Can Register option in the admin section.
Firstly how are these users able to register?
Secondly how can they be admins?
Thirdly how can I stop them registering in the first place?
Many thanks
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Hi there, it looks like beautyangelsuk.com is using the open source WordPress software rather than being hosted here on WordPressdotcom.
You should be able to disable new user registrations by going to your Dashboard and disabling “anyone can register”.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_General_ScreenIn general, for help with a site using the open source WordPress software, you’ll want to head over to https://wordpress.org/support where they have more experience with the software you are using. If you don’t have a username on the ORG forums you can register one on the top of that page.
Just to clarify, this support forum assists users of the WordPressdotcom platform. WordPressdotcom (where we are ) and WordPress are separate entities with different documentation and support forums. More information about the differences can be found here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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Oh, sorry. Looks like that ORG link changed to
https://wordpress.org/support/article/settings-general-screen/
Best wishes.
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Thanks very much guys.
I disabled Anyone Can Register option but these users are still managing to sign up as administrators.
I will check out the other support forum.
Many thanks for all your help.
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