How to block users without deleting WordPress users?

Do you want to block someone from among your WordPress blog users?

The easiest way to achieve this is to delete their user profiles, but it will completely delete them from your site. In this article, we will show you how to block a WordPress user without deleting their account.

Why should not a user's account be deleted?

The easiest way to block a WordPress user is to delete the user account. However, to delete a user account in WordPress, you can submit all of their content to another user. The author information for these articles will change.

One way to deal with this problem is by changing their user profile and changing the user's password and email address. It will block their access, and they will not be able to login. However, it will also change their Gravatar image.

Would not it be nice if you did not really delete user user's user account? In this way, no content will be transferred, and you do not have to delete any user profile information.

The blocking feature can be really helpful for multi-authors blogs, forums as well as community sites.

Let's see, how you can easily prevent a WordPress user to deleting his account.

Block users without deleting users accounts

You must first install and activate the User Blocker plugin.

After activation, the plugin will add a new menu item labeled 'User Blocker' in your WordPress admin menu. Clicking on it will take you to the Plugin Settings page, which is divided into three tabs.

Block user by time

Under the Time tab by Block User, you will see all the registered user lists. You can add the time limit to select the user and block this user.

You can block all users simultaneously for a time range. Scroll down to block time options, add time to each day separately, and click Apply to all buttons.

Once added, you will need to click on the block button below to save your changes.

Block user by date

You can select all users at once and block them for the same date.

Block user permanently

To block a user permanently, you have to visit the block user permanent tab. From here you select the user and click the block user button below.

Block user by role

If you have a lot of user accounts on your website, and you want to block users with a specific user role, select Users / Categories drop down and then select Role. Now a list of WordPress User Role will be displayed. To block users, you have to select a role and click the Block User button below.

Note: You can not block Administrator by using this setting.