This tutorial is about how to disable user registration in Joomla 3.0. This is useful when you are developing private websites to not allow user registration, also to prevent spammer’s registration.

User Registration not disabled

Follow these steps to disable user registration:

1. Login as administrator.
2. In the top menu, click User-> User Manager:
3. Then, on the Options tab: 
4. In the Component section, change the option “Yes” in “Allow User Registration”: 
5. That’s all to disable user registration. This is how it looks: 

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