Managing Signup, Login, and Security Settings for Your Site Members
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You can customize the signup, login, and security settings of your Members Area to control who can be a member and to prevent bots and spammers from attacking it.
In this article, learn more about:
Controlling who can be a site member
You can choose to enable everyone who visits your site to join as a member, or restrict it to only people you manually approve. Restricting means you can manually verify who is joining your site and prevent bots from flooding your site with fake members.
To control who can be a site member:
- Go to Signup, Login, and Security in the Settings section of your site's dashboard.
- Select whether you want everyone to be able to sign up or only people you manually approve under Who can be a site member?.
- Click Save.
Preventing attacks from bots and spammers
Bots and spammers can flood your site with spam emails, irrelevant forum posts, and fake members.
To prevent attacks, you can choose to send a confirmation email to your new site members when they join. This ensures that they signed up with an active email address that they own.
You can choose to make your new site members confirm their email during the signup process or after their member profile is created.
- During signup: This is the most secure way to prevent spammer attacks. After your new member signs up, they receive a 6-digit passcode in their sign-up email. Their member profile is not created until they enter this code on your Wix site. They also can't access your members area until they enter the code.
- After signup: When your new member signs up, their profile is created immediately and they receive a 6-digit code in their sign-up email. They can't use their profile or access your Members Area until they enter this code on your Wix site. Learn more about the confirmation email
You can also choose to add reCAPTCHA fields to your signup and login forms that site visitors need to check. If your visitors don't check the field, they won't be able to continue to the member's area of your site.
To prevent attacks by bots and spammers:
- Go to Signup, Login, and Security in the Settings section of your site's dashboard.
- Enable the toggle next to Ask new members to confirm their email when signing up.
- Select whether you want your new members to confirm their email address after signup or during signup.
- Customize the reCAPTCHA settings under Use reCAPTCHA for signup and login.
- Add reCAPTCHA to signup: Enable the toggle to add a reCAPTCHA field to your signup form. You can choose to always display the field, or only display it to suspected bots.
- Add reCAPTCHA to login: Enable the toggle to add a reCAPTCHA field to your login form. You can choose to always display the field, or only display it to suspected bots.
- Click Save.
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