If you don’t want anyone to be able to subscribe and publish posts, then go to the Settings->General tab in your dashboard and uncheck the box “Anyone can register” in the Membership section. This can still allow visitors to comment on your site’s posts if you like, but should prevent users/bots from posting their own articles.
Go to the Users tab in your dashboard. Are the bots showing up as registered users?
That’s odd. Subscribers don’t have the ability to do that unless you’ve customized your roles’ capabilities or have a form on the front-end that permits the public to submit a post. Do either of these fit your situation?
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Roles_and_Capabilities#Subscriber
The bots are showing up as registered users. I do want people to register… but subscribers shouldn’t even have access to that.
And none of those roles fits my users.
Is it possible that this plugin is allowing it to happen?
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-user-avatar/
Is the website with the issue the one linked from your name? You should really upgrade if so as your version is pretty old by now.
What other plugins do you have active?
On the Settings > General page what is the default role given to new subscribers?
Default user role is set to “Subscriber”.
And no, that’s not the site I’m working on. I’ve updated the link and it’s this:
http://gunshowtrader.com/
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