Comments on: WordPress User Registration

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:25:11 +0000

Sorry, I’ve not seen anything like that. Plenty of registration page “theme” editors but not additional field stuff.

By: Blackjack

Blackjack — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:58:56 +0000

Hi Brian. I found your blog when googling for “wordpress user registration”, actually looking for a plugin that enables customization of the info that is taken from user during registration. For instance, I want user to enter few more things about himself during registration. Are you aware of any such plugins? Thanks!

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:47:10 +0000

Hi Sal,
I was doing the same before this last attack, yesterday I got 4 or 5 registrations within a minute and all from the same domain in Poland (unless of course it was spoofed!).
The only slight concern I really have is that WP security is like a door with multiple locks, allowing user registration opens one of the locks and potentially makes the door just that bit easier to open should more keys become available at some later date.
Anyhow, I think I’ll leave registration off for now and see if anything else happens – I can still monitor what’s going on via the log files.

BTW, thanks for “VentnorBlog Presents”, it was good to meet you and Simon. I loved the gorillas!

By: Sal

Sal — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:29:17 +0000

Hi Brian – We have the same problem on VB, so far hasn’t affected the site, we normally delete them every so often.

Registering to the site can be a good way of collecting email addresses for future mailout – not that we’ve ever tried it.