[philippowell]

Hi I have been trying to set up a forum but I keep getting sign ups which I think are spam, they all have random letters for the user name. I have akismet enabled.
The forum is at https://www.stinglessbeesinternational.com/ Im using “the7” theme
any ideas?
thank you for the help

[Pascal Casier]

Hi @philippowell, user signups are following WordPress user subscriptions.
1) You could remove ‘Anyone can register’ in /wp-admin/options-general.php, but that is probably not what you want to do
2) Check for WordPress plugins that will add protection to people signing up (like captcha)

[Pascal Casier]

Check also https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/spam-registrations-2/ as the topic seems the same