How to disable new user registration in wordpress?

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I saw many wordpress user fed up with huge amount of spam registration on their wordpress blog. Here i found a working and very useful trick that will surely disable any new user registration in you wordpress blog. And more than that it will increase your wordpress blogs security.

To disable new user registration just follow these steps:

1. First open hosting cpanel, and navigate to PhpMyAdmin (which is in database menu).

2. Then navigate to your blog database (from left side database list).

3. Now in the right side there you can see all your blog database tables. Just select and browse "wp_options".



4. That will open the "wp_options" table. Now select and click edit "users_can_register" option.



5. Now you can see the field "option_value" has a big text box on it's right side with a value of 1 in it, just make it 0. Then press the "Go" button.



So that’s It. Now, unless you allow it, no new member can register on your blog anymore. You can check that if it is working or not, just browse www.yourblog.com/wp-register.php that should tell you that "User registration is currently not allowed".



Cheers!