Disable User Registration in Joomla

With powerful content management systems like Joomla and WordPress, anyone can create any type of website on the internet. By using additional modules or plugins or extensions, you can even make a membership site on WordPress or Joomla. Many membership websites with the subscription business model run on one of these two content management systems. Modules, Extensions or plugins allow us to modify our system as much as we want, thanks to the open-source licenses of these systems.

Sometimes, you have to close registrations for new customers. It may be because you want to solve the bug in your system or you just don’t want to temporarily take new customers to improve the experience of current customers. Whatever the reason may be, you can update these settings directly from the admin panel of your content management system. In this tutorial, it is Joomla. So, Let’s see how to disable user registrations in Joomla based website.

Disable User Registration in Joomla

To disable new user registration, log in to the admin panel of your Joomla site and move your mouse on the Users option given in the top menu. It will show you a drop-down menu with detailed options. Click on the Manage link from the drop-down menu just like the following image.

In the Users section, you can manage your current users in Joomla. You can add new users, edit the current ones, bulk activate or block them and even manage user groups and access levels for your users. Now, click onthe Options button given on the top-right corner of the page to update registration settings in Joomla.

From this page, you can update all the user management settings. Click on the Component tab given on the page.

On this page, you will see a lots of switches and drop-down menus to update the user management settings. In this case, find a switch with label Allow User Registration and turn it off to disable user registration on your Joomla site.

Finally, click on the Save button given on the top-left corner of the page to apply the changes. So, this is how you can disable or enable user registrations in Joomla. If you have any questions regarding this tutorial, please let us know in the comment section given below. We will get back to you with answers as soon as possible.