Disable WP Registration Page Spam
Disable WP Registration Page Spam
Description
Easily disable default WordPress registration page, remove register link and stop all spam registrations, without disabling the actual registration functionality. You may still want to accept user registration using membership or registration plugin.
This plugin works great with popular registration plugins, you can have the registration form on a separate page at the same time disable the default registration of WordPress and protect the spam account creation by bots.
Features
- Stop spam / fake registrations in WordPress.
- Disable default WordPress registration page.
- Remove register link from login page.
- Remove register link from forgot password page.
- Disable registration page but allows user registration.
Installation
From your WordPress dashboard
- Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’.
- Search for ‘Disable WP Registration Page Spam’.
- Activate ‘Disable WP Registration Page Spam’ from your Plugins page.
From WordPress.org
- Download ‘Disable WP Registration Page Spam’.
- Upload the ‘disable-wp-registration-page-spam’ directory to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory, using your favourite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc…).
- Activate ‘Disable WP Registration Page Spam’ from your Plugins page.
Faq
- Log in to your WordPress admin dashboard
- Navigate to Plugins > Add New
- Search for ‘Disable WP Registration Page Spam’ plugin
- Install the plugin using ‘Install now’
- Activate the plugin
- Disabling default registration form will stop spam registration
- Log in to your WordPress admin dashboard
- Navigate to Settings > General
- Uncheck ‘Membership’ checkbox under ‘General Settings’
- Save the settings
- Log in to your WordPress admin dashboard
- Navigate to Plugins > Add New
- Search for ‘Disable WP Registration Page Spam’ plugin
- Install the plugin using ‘Install now’
- Activate the plugin
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Reviews
debug.log
By rudsonalex on May 2, 2025
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Still working in 2024!
By Reece (FirstClassCode) on March 14, 2024
This plugin still works great in 2024. It would be awesome if the developer could update it to confirm compatibility so it doesn't trigger the WordFence abandoned plugin notification.
It Works
By sjnotebook.com (simplejimbo) on September 28, 2023
I was getting too many unwanted guests; this took care of it.
Perfect simple function
By deighteu on November 16, 2022
Working perfectly with WordPress 5.7.2
By Subodh Ghulaxe (subodhghulaxe) on June 5, 2021
Changelog
1.0.0
Initial release
1.0.1
Tested with WordPress version 5.9
1.0.2
Tested with WordPress version 6.5.4
