How to ban users

[sergii]

Hello,
What is the best and simpliest way to ban (block) user? If somebody posts spam messages or prohibited materials.
Read-only mode will be enough.

[EKBK]

why not simply deactivate their account in WP users?

[serhii]

Hi,

As a site admin, you can delete users in WordPress/Users, or use third-party plugins that allow switching users to read-only.

[sergii]

I had tried this but user still can add listings

[sergii]

Hi,
Thank you for your answer.
I installed few plugins for members management and blacklisting but none of them can help me. Users still can register and post.
Maybe you can recommend me some approved plugin?

[ihor]

Sorry, we don’t have a specific recommendation but any plugin that supports WordPress users should be ok since HivePress uses the WP user management system.

[sergii]

I tried

• CM E-Mail Registration Blacklist
• Ultimate Member
• Ban Hammer

Anything doesn’t work for me. Blocked user can registrate and publish listing anyway=(
It looks like Hivepress ignores WP and plugins lists during user registration…

[ihor]

We use the core WP functions for logging users in, if some plugins use the “wp_login” hook to validate users it should be ok hivepress/class-user.php at master · hivepress/hivepress · GitHub but we’ll try to test this further.

[sergii]

Solution: install this plugin Prevent Password Reset – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org , prohibit password change for user and change his password from WP.

[serhii]

Hi,

Thanks for posting the solution!