Conrad_Farlow
Member
Hi I tried to create a new role called 'suspended' and unchecked all the boxes in the capabilities list. Unfortunately the user can still read the blog, I wish for the user to have no rights whatsoever. Can I do this with URE?
Oops sorry wrong forum and I don't know how to move it.
Regards
Conrad
Hi,
Any visitor see any your blog post if it is in the published state. He/she may be not registered at your blog at all. If you wish to hide your blog from some visitor, try some visitor blocking plugin, which could block visitor by IP, or IP range.
Regards,
Vladimir.
Conrad_Farlow
Member
Hi Vladimir yes I have done that using a plug in called wp-user which allows me to block pages to people who do not have a log in. For an example have a look at http://www.barbelfishers.com/away-days/. You will not be able to see it. What I want to do is block a user for a while without deleting all his details. People come and go and it would be easier if I could make them inactive.
User role editor should be able to prevent them from posting or commenting is that correct?
I guess I could just change their password to stop them logging in.
Conrad
Hi,
If you change user password, I think that he can reset it via 'Lost your password link' with WordPress help.
User should have at least 'Contributor' role to write post for your blog. You can change his role to the 'Subscriber' or your own self-made empty user role via user edit menu, and he will could not posting.
More general decision is available via 'authentication' filter you can add to your theme function.php file.
Check this post
http://www.johnkolbert.com/wordpress/how-to-add-your-own-authentication-criteria/
Example there checks the user name, but you can check if user has some role assigned and block him from login if such case has place.
Role checking for the user data is shown here
http://www.shinephp.com/how-to-block-wordpress-admin-menu-item/
Let me know, if you need help with a code for this case.
Finally, you can allow commenting to the registered and logged-in users only. Thus you can make a full block for posting and commenting for unwanted registered user as he could not login to your blog then.
Regards,
Vladimir.
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