Are these posts or comments?
Site url?
Moderator
t-p
(@t-p)
Posts. They somehow got a user account. I don’t recall approving them, but it’s possible. Am trying to get in there to see why I didn’t get pre-approval notices prior to all these posts.
Am going to go through records/emails to see if I can find some notice about when this user registered.
I logged in to WP (really slow since 3.3.1) and went to Users and saw this user. Tried to go to Posts and Dashboard… and the blank page just spins and never loads. Can’t even get back to the Users page now.
Then it’s likely that your site has been hacked. See t-p’s list of links above.
I remember a Users control somewhere. Was it under Settings? It’s not there anymore.
There are some user controls in Settings->General – specifically:
Membership: Anyone can register
New User Default Role
In Settings, there used to be a way to require approval of any post prior to publishing. I thought this was under General or Writing, but those options aren’t there anymore.
Thanks Esmi! I changed the Membership setting. (It was “Anyone can register”, so maybe this was the problem and I wasn’t hacked.)
I thought there was a way to always be notified when someone registered, but now don’t see that.
No – they’ve been handled by the user roles for a long time. See Roles_and_Capabilities.
What was the New User Default Role set to?
The poster used an email address at a domain that is active. bill (at) thatdomain . com
