Overload of "Users"

  • EnduringEpilepsy

    (@enduringepilepsy)


    12 years, 6 months ago

    I’m just starting to build my site on WordPress and woke up this morning to find I had 18 users registered. All of them had weird names and email accounts on hotmail, for example:

    Username: PatriceOAJH

    E-mail: Saraufm803 @hotmail. com

    I’ve deleted them from my page but I wanted to check on how to stop this from continuing. I shut off “anyone can register” under General Settings but eventually will want to allow followers.

    Anyone with advice? Similar experiences?

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  • Borko

    (@media-x)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    I use Pie Register on few sites.

    Ensure your users are registering with valid email accounts by forcing them to click a validation link that’s sent out with their registration email. Email validation initially sets the username to a random generated string (something like: ‘unverified__h439herld3′). The user can’t login until they click on that validation link sent in the email. This will put their real username in place allowing them to login.

    Unverified registrations have a defined grace period. They are automatically deleted after a specified period of time so you don’t get clogged up with those fakes. (Manage under Users > Unverified Users)

    leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    I shut off “anyone can register”…but eventually will want to allow followers.

    Users are people with accounts at the site so they can make pages and posts. Have a look here about that:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

    Followers are only subscribers to a feed or newsletter or whatever and do not have accounts for logging in…
    https://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+follower

    Then for comments, be sure to prepare for SPAM management ahead of time:
    http://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=spam

    Thread Starter EnduringEpilepsy

    (@enduringepilepsy)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    These were “subscribers” who showed up on my Dashboard as “users”

    * The emails came titled with “New user registration”

    * But they were listed on the Dashboard as “subscribers”

    I knew it was spam based on the names and emails. Which is why I wanted to know about stopping it.

    leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    Understood, and “eventually will want to allow followers” is not the same as having registered users with Subscriber-role WordPress accounts for logging in at your site. So unless or until you want other people at your site’s Dashboard to make pages and posts, keep that “Anyone can register” turned off while letting people subscribe or follow, not register.

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