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Do I Need To Enable “Anyone Can Register” In WordPress?

  • @kentheriot

    Participant

    Does the “anyone Can Register” option in WordPress Settings need to be enabled/checked in order for someone to sign up for the forums on my site? I have been leaving that enabled but now I have like 10,000 subscribers on my site! If people can register for the Forums without my having to enable that, it would help.

    Thanks!

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  • @robin-w

    Moderator

    if you want anyone to be able to register for the forums, yes you do, and if you do then yes anyone can register, wordpress and bbpress use the same userdatabase.

    Otherwise, you are looking at a manual registration system, which is quite easy to do, just use one of the many form plugins available – contact form 7 (and add the flamingo plugin) is very popular, and add users.

    or if it is bots registering, use one of the many anti bot plugins available eg captcha to prevent bots registering.

    @kentheriot

    Participant

    Thanks! I’m thinking it’s bots. I’ll look into antibot plugins.

    @kentheriot

    Participant

    Robin, about using a form for manual registration – where would I put the form? Is there a specific page that bbPress creates where I’d need to put the form? I use Gravity Forms. Thanks!

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    You’d just create a page – say called ‘registration’ and put the form in there. The form would mail you and you’d go into dashboard>Users>create new to create a new one.

    If you are using bbpress widgets, then there is an area within the widget setup that lets you put in the registration url, which is the permalink of the page you set up.

    @kentheriot

    Participant

    Thanks Robin!

    @robin-w

    Moderator

    you’re welcome – come back if you need further help 🙂

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