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Simple User Locking

Description

Prevent users from logging into your WordPress installation for a certain timeframe or permanently. Works also great with the multisite user management area.

The locked users are easily manageable within the users overview page. The settings are within the user edit pages.

No user can lock himself. No user with a lower role can lock a higher user and administrators in a network can not lock super administrators.

If a user is locked, he is instantly logged out of any session until the lock expires or is removed.

No useless overhead, no ads. Just a tiny, but very effective plugin to keep your website secure.

Use cases:

  • you do not want to delete a user, but you want to make sure he can not access the site (at least for a certain timeframe)
  • an employee leaves your company and access should be removed, but you want to keep his user as an author in the system
  • you want to punish a certain user which did bad things for a certain timeframe
  • you want only few persons to have access to your WordPress site in order to minimize risk of incidents
  • … or maybe some other use case

Feature requests

Currently none.

Screenshots

  • Lock settings in the user edit screen
  • User overview
  • Trying to login with a locked account

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

e.g.

  1. Upload plugin-name.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Navigate to a users profile you want to lock (also possible in network admin) and adjust the settings accordingly.

FAQ

Currently none.

Reviews

ሓምለ 4, 2019
The motivation behind writing this plugin was very practical – how can I lock users within my WordPress site without deleting them. During the time writing this it has already been used in live environments for two months, without any complaints – doing what it should do. Therefore I am satisfied with my initial work.
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Contributors & Developers

“Simple User Locking” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.0

  • Initial version