Title: Moderating user registrations?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Moderating user registrations?

 *  [michaelbevilacqua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelbevilacqua/)
 * (@michaelbevilacqua)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-registrations/)
 * I’d like to moderate user registrations, allowing or disallowing their requests
   at my convenience. However, it seems that with Word Press 1.5, I can not disallow
   a newly registered user (at level 0) not to post. I understand that at some point,
   increasing that user’s level to 1 might have done this, but this functionality
   doesn’t seem to exist in 1.5.

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 *  [Michael Adams (mdawaffe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdawaffe/)
 * (@mdawaffe)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-registrations/#post-144872)
 * [User level](http://codex.wordpress.org/User_Levels):
    **0** – Cannot write articles.
 * **1** – May submit drafts for review.
 * **2** – May publish articles
 * See the “Newly registered members” setting in Options->Writing.
 *  Thread Starter [michaelbevilacqua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelbevilacqua/)
 * (@michaelbevilacqua)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-registrations/#post-144881)
 * There is no such setting in Options->Writing on WordPress 1.5 to my knowledge.
   Is there something wrong with my install or are we talking about an older version
   of Word Press?
 *  [Michael Adams (mdawaffe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdawaffe/)
 * (@mdawaffe)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-registrations/#post-144919)
 * WordPress 1.5: Options->Writing
 * Newly registered members:
    *Cannot write articles *May submit drafts for review*
   May publish articles
 * If you don’t see that (_directly above_ the Writing by e-mail stuff), there’s
   something wrong. Are you logged in as Admin?
 *  Thread Starter [michaelbevilacqua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelbevilacqua/)
 * (@michaelbevilacqua)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-registrations/#post-144931)
 * [http://bevilacqua.us/ljpics/wp.jpg](http://bevilacqua.us/ljpics/wp.jpg)
 * It’s not there. Thank you for the verification on your end. Yes, I’m on as admin(
   as you can see on the ‘Logout’ Site Admin button on the top right hand side of
   the screenshot.
 *  [Michael Adams (mdawaffe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdawaffe/)
 * (@mdawaffe)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-registrations/#post-144933)
 * Ah – the source of the confusion!
 * That’s WordPress 1.2 **NOT 1.5**
 *  Thread Starter [michaelbevilacqua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelbevilacqua/)
 * (@michaelbevilacqua)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-registrations/#post-144935)
 * Note: This particular instance is a tarball from the main site running on Redhat
   EL3 running Apache2, PHP4.3.2, and MySQL 3.
 * For kicks, I also installed this onto a Gentoo unstable machine through portage
   and get the same results so it’s not the tarball, nor the OS.
 *  Thread Starter [michaelbevilacqua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelbevilacqua/)
 * (@michaelbevilacqua)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-registrations/#post-144936)
 * Oh dear 🙁 heh, time for me to download the right sources.
 *  Thread Starter [michaelbevilacqua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelbevilacqua/)
 * (@michaelbevilacqua)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-registrations/#post-144938)
 * Thanks btw 🙂
 *  [Michael Adams (mdawaffe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdawaffe/)
 * (@mdawaffe)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-registrations/#post-144939)
 * No worries – hope it goes well `:)`

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 9 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Michael Adams (mdawaffe)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdawaffe/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moderating-user-registrations/#post-144939)
 * Status: not resolved

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