New users registered on my site?

  • I run MyLastNickel. I have a question and I am not sure where to put it so hopefully this is an appropriate place. Tonight I had five new “Users” register within a thirty minute time frame. This might not sound like much but read on. The total number of users is six and I am one of them. I have the site set up to register new users as a “subscriber”. To be honest I am not really sure what this means.

    What really bothers me about this is that I can’t see any new visits to the site through the site stats on WordPress, nor can I see any new visits to the site through Google Analytics. So how did they register as a user on the site without actually “visiting” the site? Should I be worried about someone hacking into the site (not sure why anyone would want to), or is this just another form of spam? If it is some type of spam is there some type of security settings that I can change to help prevent this in the future, or am I just being overly cautious here?

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  • I think bots will register on your site to leave comments with outgoing links. If you have comments set to be approved just check there and mark em as spam.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    New users as subscribers mean they can login, read, leave comments, and nothing more.

    If you don’t NEED them to register on your site, turn it off and make sure anon-comments are on ??

    Thread Starter lv2snwbrd

    (@lv2snwbrd)

    This makes a lot of since. Thanks for the replies guys!

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