Written by Alex Carter, Senior WordPress Ecommerce Developer at Elevate Digital Agency With 8 years of experience building and optimizing 50+ WooCommerce stores for DTC brands and global merchants, I specialize in helping store owners reduce tec...

Last year, I took on a project to build a community website for a friend who thought the built-in WordPress registration function was “good enough to get by.” The result? The site was flooded with over 200 spam accounts in the first week alone, turning...