New user registration?
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Hi everyone!
I am a newbie blogger, I started recently a new blog (www.musafrugal.com) and from time to time I get emails from WordPress saying that a new user registered in my page. I see them in my list of users as “subscribers”. However, in my stats under “subscriptions” I can see I have “0 followers”.
Does that mean those new users registered in my page are some sort of spam thing? How does this work? What do I do?
Thank you!
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Despite the name, those are actually two separate systems.
They’re registering because you have “Anyone can register” checked at Settings > General in your site’s Dashboard, and you’ll notice below that you have “Subscriber” set as the default user level.
On its own, a user with the Subscriber level can’t do anything more than edit their profile: https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Roles_and_Capabilities#Subscriber They don’t even receive subscription content unless further extended by a plugin, and most subscription plugins (like Jetpack) don’t even use this users system (they run their own).
In the old days, the WordPress developers felt that subscription plugins would love this blank-slate/extend-with-a-plugin role, and that was true for a while, but over time almost all subscription plugins grew to provide their own users system.
If you have nothing in your site that requires registration via WordPress’s users system, it’s safe to uncheck “Anyone can register” at Settings > General in your site’s Dashboard and delete those “Subscribers” from the Users section of your site’s Dashboard.
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