{"id":67110,"date":"2011-12-24T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=67110"},"modified":"2012-11-20T14:59:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T19:59:30","slug":"daily-tip-disable-wordpress-users-without-deleting-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-disable-wordpress-users-without-deleting-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable WordPress Users without Deleting Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox[67110]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-disable-wordpress-users-without-deleting-them\/access-deinied-big\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67111\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67111\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/access-deinied-big.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"634\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you run a WordPress site that allows users to register for one reason or another, then there\u2019s a good chance you\u2019ve come across a situation where revoking their access is necessary, if only temporarily. This is not always for negative reasons, of course. There are all sorts of reasons why you would need to do this.<\/p>\n<p>If you delete a user in WordPress, then the content they\u2019ve added needs to either be deleted along with them or assigned to another user. Sometimes neither of these choices is desirable.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/user-control\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">User Control plugin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This plugin easily lets you disable users (and then re-enable them if you choose). It also lets you disable all new users by default if you choose.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[67110]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-disable-wordpress-users-without-deleting-them\/disable-users\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67115\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67115\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Disable-Users.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"647\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/user-control\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">User Control plugin here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/image-17459426\/stock-vector-access-denied-and-free-pass-tablets-set.\" target=\"_blank\">Access denied and free pass tablets set<\/a> from BigStock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avoid the messy situation of deleting users from your site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":67112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[300],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-67110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-users"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216250,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67110\/revisions\/216250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67110"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=67110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}