{"id":907957,"date":"2014-12-04T12:17:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tri.be\/support\/forums\/topic\/new-venues-getting-created-even-though-code-has-been-commented-out\/"},"modified":"2015-01-13T11:56:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:56:12","slug":"new-venues-getting-created-even-though-code-has-been-commented-out","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/new-venues-getting-created-even-though-code-has-been-commented-out\/","title":{"rendered":"New venues getting created even though code has been commented out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have anonymous submissions turned on and would like to prevent users from creating new venues. So, the way I did that was to comment out lines 57 to 179 in mytheme\/tribe-events\/community\/modules\/venue.php.<\/p>\n<p>So, on my add event form: http:\/\/cruzio.com\/events\/community\/add, users can now only select from a preaproved list of venues.<\/p>\n<p>But, over the past two weeks, 2 additional venues have been created, seemingly from Russia? The location points to Moscow. I&#8217;m wondering if it&#8217;s some script kiddie or something and they&#8217;re able to force the creation of a new venue somehow?<\/p>\n<p>I did some searching in the forums here and it looks like there&#8217;s not a built in way to disable to creation of new venues. Just wanted to make sure I&#8217;m not missing something or if there&#8217;s some other way to disable to creation of new venues. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a screenshot of the latest venue: http:\/\/note.io\/1vsxVlW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-907957","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New venues getting created even though code has been commented out -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/new-venues-getting-created-even-though-code-has-been-commented-out\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New venues getting created even though code has been commented out -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have anonymous submissions turned on and would like to prevent users from creating new venues. 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