How are others blogging on my site?
By Ellen Rothwax on Friday, 06 February 2015
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I am getting notices that a blog has been submitted to my site. It is obvious spam, but what I don't understand is how this is happening. I don't think I have any settings that allow anyone else to blog and that all posts and comments need to be approved by me. Can you check my settings and see if I have missed something? I have had the blog (although not active) up for a while but this is a recent occurrence.

All the users except you and me are unknown to me and are probably spammers.
Hello Ellen,

It seems like the user has registered to your site and made a blog post because you have set the permission to allow registered user post a blog. My suggestion is either you turn off the permission to write entry for the Registered User group in Easyblog>ACL or you can disable user registration from the Joomla User Manager>Option: http://screen.stackideas.com/2015-02-06_1253.png
Nik Faris
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Friday, 06 February 2015 12:53
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Hello Ellen,

It seems like you have enabled registration in your site via easyblog toolbar, http://screen.stackideas.com/2015-02-06_1254.png
and when a user register into your site it will fall into "registered" user group. From the ACL setting, registered user group are able to post a new entry. Refer my screenshot here, http://screen.stackideas.com/2015-02-06_1252_001.png

You can disable site registration button from your backend > easyblog > setting > layout > toolbar so that user are not able to register on your site.
http://screen.stackideas.com/2015-02-06_1257.png

If you want to enable user to register into your site you can disable some rule set that involve blog posting from your backend > easyblog > ACL > registered thus preventing them to be able to post blog post into your site.

Hope these help
Ezrul Fazwan
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Friday, 06 February 2015 13:01
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