Restrict Usernames Emails Characters

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1. ★★★★★ Alex

   1.1y ago

   Exactly Does what we needed, Loved the plugin.

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2. ★★★★★ chelminski

   1.7y ago

   I dont have money to send to dev, but I love plugin

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3. ★★★★★ GyziieDK

   1.7y ago

   This plugin is very powerful and useful.It’s super simple to setup – and it JUST WORKS! Just what I needed – thank you!

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4. ★★★★★ mikejj101

   2.2y ago

   Brilliant plugin that solves all sorts of issues with user names

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5. ★★★★★ ellice909

   2.8y ago

   I am wary of hackers, so I have been trying to keep out spam accounts. I even have a captcha to sign up to comment, but the bots still get through, like 200 a day. I have been daily bulk deleting all those, “telegram,” “blogspot,” and “.ru” accounts. This plug-in relived me of the burden of having to do that so much. I think this might be one of my ‘essential’ plug-ins for any website build for new website clients from now on.

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6. ★★★★★ Vondelphia.com

   3.1y ago

   I was looking for a “Not allow these names” and this plugin did that for me. Now I can block mail.ru, blogspot, www., etc when trying to register. The admin area could use some love… I think if the addon better replicated the default wordpress admin style things would be better. remove hamburger in top right corner fix spelling “Extentions” to “Extensions” fix padding / margin spacing between UI elements sidebar admin menu name is huge “Restrict Usernames Emails Characters …” should be “Restrict Usernames” or something really short I liked and appreciated how the “leave review” banner was at the bottom of the page and not in my face at the top. That’s why I left this review… Great job! Thanks!

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7. ★★★★★ lijonghui

   3.5y ago

   wordpress的注册地方有两个，一个是官方提供的默认注册位置，你的插件只能对默认注册用户过滤，但是现在大多数都用的Elementor 提交的注册表单，我希望你能添加对Elementor提交病保存的 用户过滤的支持， There are two registration places for wordpress. One is the official default registration location. Your plug-in can only filter the default registered users. But now most of the registration forms submitted by Elementor are used. I hope you can add support for filtering the users submitted by Elementor, This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by lijonghui.

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8. ★★★★★ Anchal Malik

   3.6y ago

   block email domains doesn’t work at all and there is no support to reply. Simply useless plugin.

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.4 Restrict Usernames Emails Characters <= 3.1.3 - Authenticated(Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2024-01-31 CVE-2023-6165 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 3.1.4 Patched in 3.1.4

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-01-02 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-01-01 1K+ → 2K+ up after 3 days in tier
3. 2025-12-29 2K+ → 1K+ down after 9 days in tier
4. 2025-12-20 1K+ → 2K+ up after 2 days in tier
5. 2025-12-18 2K+ → 1K+ down after 9 days in tier
6. 2025-12-09 1K+ → 2K+ up after 3 days in tier
7. 2025-12-06 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
8. 2025-12-05 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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• Login With Ajax – Fast Logins, 2FA, Redirects 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Forget Spam Comment 9K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags B
• OOPSpam Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for WordPress Forms & Comments (No CAPTCHA) 6K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A

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Restrict Usernames Emails Characters: 1K+ active installs, 4.5★ (25 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/restrict-usernames-emails-characters