New User Registered in Your WordPress
These few days I have been getting users registering to my Wordpress as subscribers. At times I was wondering what are they doing, and I am getting subscribers. Then suddenly I noticed the names of it and the email accounts all too familiar.
After going through the Internet, I had found people with similar experiences. Though little is known then as to why they do it, but one thing for sure, I have now disabled User Registration unless needed. Unless of course one needs to login to post comments and stuffs.
Though there are some who seems to say that they got hacked because of this vulnerability in the previous Wordpress versions. How true it is though, I am not sure. For now though, some safety measure could be taken. Besides since I am the only contributor and I don’t put any restrictions on my commentators, why not just lock it?
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Facing the same issue here. Automated bot registration.
I actually allow user registration. There are some WP plugins that allow you do stuff with your registered users so it’s a good idea to have subscribers and let people register for your blog. I always allow new users to register and set their level at subscriber. Then I install an email press plugin that allows me to send emails to them whenever a new post is uploaded or when I create a newsletter or other types of promos that I want my subscribers to read.