Title: Changing WordPress Backend
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Changing WordPress Backend

 *  [rabmaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rabmaster/)
 * (@rabmaster)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-wordpress-backend/)
 * I’d like to alter the Back-end (admin panel) of wordpress so that the “Comments”
   tab is not open to anyone who is not an admin.
 * I have seen a couple of other posts on this subject which have only received 
   flippant responses along the lines of “why would you allow someone to make posts
   if you don’t trust them not to spam your other members?” The answer to that question
   is this:
 * I moderate all new contributors posts until I feel I can trust them. If I set
   the options to allow all new members to be “contributors” (the lowest form of
   writer, who is not allowed to make posts without being approved) then ANYONE 
   who registers with my multi-author blog can access the email address of EVERYONE
   who has left a comment… EVER. This is not right, and is presumably the reason
   why there is so much registration spam on WordPress.
 * It is my belief that this aspect needs to be written out of WP, but failing that,
   at least can someone suggest the alterations I would need to make to the code
   in order to amend this situation myself?
 * I can, of course, work out the answer on my own, but I’m pretty sure other people
   are out there looking for this fix, so the quick way would be a help for all 
   of us.
 * And if you’re planning a flippant remark, pleas remember I’m not the enemy, I
   actually want to protect the email addresses of those who leave comments on my
   WP blogs. It is the spammers and scrapers out there we should be inhibiting –
   precisely by removing this security issue.
 * I was informed of this by one of my newly promoted authors, who was shocked that
   she could access all of these addresses. I was too. Imagine if she had also run
   a mailing list somewhere. She could have put all 5,000 or so unique addresses
   on there without so much as running a small script…

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-wordpress-backend/#post-638332)
 * See this thread for continued discussion:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/139017](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/139017)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-wordpress-backend/#post-638332)
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