Title: admin and users
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# admin and users

 *  [ladan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladan/)
 * (@ladan)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-users/)
 * Hi. I have allowed others to be able to sign up as users on my site and be able
   to post articles as authors. Recently someone is posting many articles a day 
   as admin! How is that possible? What should I do?

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-users/#post-2642632)
 * 1) Turn off Registration
 * 2) Change the user to subscriber.
 * 3) Check your site on [http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/](http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/)
 * Also you may want to rename your plugins folder to plugins-old
 *  Thread Starter [ladan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladan/)
 * (@ladan)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-users/#post-2642711)
 * Thanks for the reply. I have a question. So if I change user to subscriber, then
   nobody can post an article as an author right?
 * But also I still don’t understand how someone can post as admin?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-users/#post-2642723)
 * > So if I change user to subscriber, then nobody can post an article as an author
   > right?
 * Correct. Please try this & monitor the site for a few days to see if this solves
   the problem.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-users/#post-2642724)
 * Bump deleted.
 * Please be patient with replies. The forum is made up of volunteers, and sometimes
   we’re busy with the paying jobs 🙂
 * If you change ALL users to subscribers (except yourself), only you can post articles.
 *  [Gabe Young](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gabeyoung/)
 * (@gabeyoung)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-users/#post-2642727)
 * Call me paranoid but for my non-membership sites, I don’t allow any users to 
   register. For guests authors, I post the article for them, which takes me a few
   minutes.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-users/#post-2642728)
 * Then I’m paranoid too because that’s exactly what I’ve always done in the past.
 *  [dlanich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dlanich/)
 * (@dlanich)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-users/#post-2642729)
 * Then that makes 3. Because I do the same thing
 *  Thread Starter [ladan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladan/)
 * (@ladan)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-users/#post-2642730)
 * Thank you all for the replies. I will do that and see what happens.

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 * [author](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author/)
 * [users](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/users/)

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 * Last reply from: [ladan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ladan/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-and-users/#post-2642730)
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