user-blocker

User Blocker

To block users from admin side except admin users for specific day,time, and date or permanently.

47.2 opportunity score Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org

3.0Kactive installs

82.6Kdownloads

4.1rating

0unresolved threads

29complaints analyzed

6praise analyzed

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Download Momentum

180 days

269recent 30 days 323previous 30 days -16.7%movement 1.6Kshown total

Related Opportunities

0 markets

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Source Evidence

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.91

No Longer Blocking

No Longer Blocking: users show security, bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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If you use permanent blocked the plugin still works.

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.9

Critical Error

Critical Error: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Critical Error An update from version 1.5.2 to 1.5.3 using PHP 7.3.30 results in a critical error.

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.85

Is it supposed to work with bbPress?

Is it supposed to work with bbPress?: users show bugs, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

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I have a site with 10k+ members (subscribers), I read in the reviews that some sites crash because of the plugin.

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.85

Does it work with Theme My Logon and reCaptcha?

Does it work with Theme My Logon and reCaptcha?: users show security, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Does it work with Theme My Logon and reCaptcha?

complaint review · high severity · relevance 0.79

ONLY WORKS WITH USERS ALREADY REGISTERED ON YOUR WEBSITE, you cannot block spam

ONLY WORKS WITH USERS ALREADY REGISTERED ON YOUR WEBSITE, you cannot block spam: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

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ONLY WORKS WITH USERS ALREADY REGISTERED ON YOUR WEBSITE, you cannot block spam UPDATE: actually doesn’t work !

praise review · high severity · relevance 0.6

Cool Plugin

Cool Plugin: users show security, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Cool Plugin After several unsuccessful attempts to get rid of spam registrations on our website, I installed this plugin and… voila!

praise review · high severity · relevance 0.6

Helpful plugin

Helpful plugin: users show security, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Helpful plugin This plugin solved my problem with spam.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.93

Careful, this plugin breaks sites with lots of users

Careful, this plugin breaks sites with lots of users: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Careful, this plugin breaks sites with lots of users This immediately breaks my entire site, and I already have memory up to 1024M, with only 26k users.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86

PLEASE FIX: Session cannot be started after headers have already been sent

PLEASE FIX: Session cannot be started after headers have already been sent: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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PLEASE FIX: Session cannot be started after headers have already been sent PHP Warning: session_start(): Session cannot be started after headers have already been sent in /wp-content/plugins/user-blocker/includes/user-blocker-common-functions.php on line 448 How long is this error going to be ignored?

mixed review · medium severity · relevance 0.81

Not working quite right

Not working quite right: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Not working quite right This plugin is a great idea and does just what I want it to do.

Competitor Context

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Block User Account praise owner · intel 50.4 · weakness 28.6

praise owner

1 unresolved support thread(s) 3 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature pricing 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: membership site owners, agencies, and operations teams · Wedge: test user management roles, protected content, SSO/login handoffs, and private-data exposure

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Collected Signals

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praise Muy recomendable. (4 stars) review · 2026-04-27T13:31:22+00:00 · low severity · block user

The reviewer finds the plugin easy and intuitive, with enough useful options in the free version.

Evidence: Fácil e intuitivo. Las opciones que te entran en la versión gratis están muy bien

easy value free user blocking access control and account operations Evidence only

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mixed So far it is working (3 stars) review · 2025-12-27T04:28:42+00:00 · medium severity · block user

The user says the plugin is working so far but unblocking users is not accessible.

Evidence: Unblocking is not accessible.

missing feature quality user unblocking access control and account operations Evidence only

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praise Top Plugin (5 stars) review · 2025-12-02T08:57:39+00:00 · low severity · block user

The reviewer thanks User Blocker and calls it a very good plugin.

Evidence: Sehr gutes und verständnisvolles Plugin

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praise Good (5 stars) review · 2025-10-14T19:33:04+00:00 · low severity · block user

The reviewer says the User Blocker plugin is useful.

Evidence: Useful plugin.

quality user blocking access control and account operations Evidence only

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complaint Not worth the annoying ads… (2 stars) review · 2025-10-01T00:54:37+00:00 · low severity · block user

The user uninstalled because dashboard ads are intrusive and cannot be closed, despite finding the plugin useful.

Evidence: the in-dashboard ads and nags are very annoying... you cannot close them

missing feature dashboard ads access control and account operations Evidence only

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praise Nice Plugin (5 stars) review · 2025-08-08T12:41:13+00:00 · low severity · block user

The reviewer says the user blocking plugin is working fine.

Evidence: It’s working fine.

reliable user blocking access control and account operations Evidence only

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complaint We are glad you like User Blocker plugin and have been using it since the past f (1 star) review · 2025-08-05T14:27:02+00:00 · low severity · block user

A one-star reviewer complains they cannot close a plugin window and leaves a review because of it.

Evidence: I can not close this window so I leave review.

bugs review prompt window access control and account operations Evidence only

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complaint PHP Errors support · 2025-07-28T15:38:18+00:00 · low severity · block user

User Blocker flooded the PHP error log with thousands of session_start warnings on every session.

Evidence: There are thousands upon thousands of lines with this error

bugs performance session startup access control and account operations Evidence only

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mixed Not working quite right (3 stars) review · 2025-06-29T12:20:22+00:00 · medium severity · block user

Not working quite right: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Not working quite right This plugin is a great idea and does just what I want it to do.

bugs missing feature support access control and account operations Evidence only

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complaint Cannot see all user list support · 2025-06-25T13:28:16+00:00 · medium severity · block user

Cannot see all user list: users show bugs, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Cannot see all user list Hello I’ve just installed the plugin as there was someone I wanted to block.

bugs missing feature setup access control and account operations Evidence only

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praise Great plugin (5 stars) review · 2025-05-12T08:43:14+00:00 · medium severity · block user

Great plugin: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Great plugin Great plugin Great plugin

quality access control and account operations Evidence only

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praise Top Plugin (5 stars) review · 2025-03-12T21:38:05+00:00 · medium severity · block user

Top Plugin: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Top Plugin Einfaches und unkompliziertes Plugin Einfaches und unkompliziertes Plugin

access control and account operations Evidence only

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praise Ottimo (5 stars) review · 2025-01-04T15:11:22+00:00 · medium severity · block user

Ottimo: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Ottimo Ottimo prodotto, facile da usare This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by sirjo67 . Ottimo prodotto, facile da usare This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by sirjo67 .

access control and account operations Evidence only

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praise Great product (5 stars) review · 2024-11-26T06:04:31+00:00 · medium severity · block user

Great product: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Great product Great+++ This topic was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by lello2 .

quality access control and account operations Evidence only

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complaint No users listed, so does NOT work! (1 star) review · 2024-11-23T09:30:26+00:00 · medium severity · block user

No users listed, so does NOT work!: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: No users listed, so does NOT work!

bugs access control and account operations Evidence only

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complaint PHP Error support · 2024-11-01T17:48:17+00:00 · medium severity · block user

PHP Error: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: PHP Error Hello, Since the last upadte i have this issue : session_start(): open(/var/cpanel/php/sessions/ea-php82/sess_e03628ba178ea19e119596b8cdf366f4, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) wp-content/plugins/user-blocker/includes/user-blocker-common-functions.php:448 session_start() wp-content/plugins/user-blocker/includes/user-blocker-common-func

bugs compatibility missing feature access control and account operations Evidence only

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complaint completely useless! (1 star) review · 2024-10-05T16:50:20+00:00 · medium severity · block user

completely useless!: complaint conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: completely useless! totally useless I banned IP addresses and users of a stalker who posts comments of insults on my blog wordpress and it can always connect on! This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by cowboy69270 . totally useless I banned IP addresses and users of a stalker who posts comments of insults on my blog wordpress and it can always connec

access control and account operations Evidence only

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praise Helpful plugin (5 stars) review · 2024-09-08T02:16:56+00:00 · high severity · block user

Helpful plugin: users show security, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Helpful plugin This plugin solved my problem with spam.

security support spam access control and account operations Evidence only

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complaint option to block any email support · 2024-08-24T04:26:59+00:00 · medium severity · block user

option to block any email: users show performance, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: option to block any email there is currently no option to block as well an email that is not in the user database, please add such an option so we can input the email and block it there is currently no option to block as well an email that is not in the user database, please add such an option so we can input the email and block it

performance missing feature email access control and account operations Evidence only

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praise Cool Plugin (5 stars) review · 2024-08-12T12:03:45+00:00 · high severity · block user

Cool Plugin: users show security, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Cool Plugin After several unsuccessful attempts to get rid of spam registrations on our website, I installed this plugin and… voila!

security setup reliable quality access control and account operations Evidence only

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