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When customizing your site and its behavior, you do not want to forget the user registration settings. From within the administrative dashboard in phpBB. you can tailor the settings for such features as password width, username width, the number of posts a user must hit before no longer being considered 'new', etc. This article discusses all the different settings found for user registration in your phpBB 3.0 site.

Setting up User Registration Settings in phpBB 3.0
- Log into your phpBB admin dashboard .
- From there, click on the General tab if the screen is not already focused on it.
- Once you land on the General tab you will see several categories listed on the left hand sidebar. Click on the User Registration Settings link found under the Board Configuration category.
- This brings you to the User Registration Settings page. The settings are divided up into three categories: General Settings. General Options. and COPPA.
General Settings
This setting is the master switch and will turn the ATOM feeds either on or off entirely. This setting supercedes all other settings on the page.
New Member Post Limit
Enabling this setting allows the display of individual statistics on the feed items such as views, replies, date and time, etc.
Set Newly Registered Users Group to Default
This setting can be used to enable HTTP authentication to allow users to receive content otherwise hidden to guest users.
This setting allows you to control the minimum and maximum length of user names.
As above with the username, this setting allows you to set the minimum and maximum length of the user password.
Limit Username Chars
This setting lets you set the allowed composition of the username from the dropdown. The settings are as follows: