new user registration

If you don’t need registration, go to Settings -> General in your blog’s Dashboard and uncheck “Anyone can register.”

Thanks I see that but I don’t ‘how’ they’re registering. Is there a form I can’t see but visitors to my site can, which makes no sense?

It’s not through comments because I don’t get that many and certainly not as many as spam emails I’m getting from this. I called my host provider and was told it was hackers going in on the ‘backside’ and doing this. Of course I can spend 40 bucks a year for ‘protection’ from this.

Besides all that, where is the list of registrars?

On your login form, there’s a link to register. Also, most spam bots just hit the registration form directly, it’s the same file for all WordPress sites.

It’s not hackers, it’s basic WordPress functionality. I’m sorry your hosting provider mislead you.

When they register, they’re added to the Users section in your Dashboard.

I just tried to look at my ‘sitemap’ using this: freekentucky.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml and got this: https://en.wordpress.com/typo/?subdomain=freekentucky

Said it didn’t exist after WordPress supposedly did it already?

I tried it without the ‘wordpress’ part and it went to my site and said the page doesn’t exist or whatever.

You’re getting confused between WordPress.com and www.ads-software.com, two very different things. ??

With a www.ads-software.com blog, you’ll need to install a plugin, like https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/ or https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordpress-seo/

Gee, I didn’t know I had a public registration form. I’ve never seen it. How do I find it?

As far as confusing org with com or whatever I was reading one of these instruction pages and it said ‘do this’ and that’s how I got there. If I’m not paying to part of the dotcom version or whatever why do they provide me instructions for it?

OK, I found the ‘users section.’ I think I had seen that before a long time ago but didn’t bother with it at the time. How do I tell the real people from the spambots? Can I filter the spambots out as they register?

thx again…

I just looked at all the support pages I was reading. They’re all dotcom not dotorg. They need to clarify all this.

Gee, I didn’t know I had a public registration form. I’ve never seen it. How do I find it?

Below your log in form, you’ll see a link to register a new account.

If I’m not paying to part of the dotcom version or whatever why do they provide me instructions for it?

I don’t know, the two are entirely different entities, we have nothing to do with them. You were probably looking at one of their support pages, which can be found by searching, just like ours can.

How do I tell the real people from the spambots?

The most important question is, do you *need* people to register? Most bloggers don’t. If you don’t need registration, switch that off at Settings -> General and remove everyone but yourself from the Users section.