I’m trying to temporarily disable a user account temporarily but that simply isn’t happening. When I go to wp-admin/ms-users.php , click Edit, and select Blocked or Inactive, the user is still able to freely login.

If this is true, the only way I can block access is to delete the account. Can someone help me fix this weird issue? Thanks.

[@meini Member 13 years, 9 months ago]

Hey @pjnu
have you been able to sort out this issue? I am having the same.
Thanks
Meini

[@gunju2221 Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

Do you have buddypress installed? This is not really a bp issue. Although if you do have buddypress installed, just mark him as spammer

[@pjnu Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

It definitely is a BP issue to some degree.

@meini , I haven’t found an answer yet. I created a ticket at https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/3098

[@gunju2221 Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

NO, this is NOT a buddypress problem.

If you mark a user as Spammer, does it block him from logging in?

Use a plugin called “wp-ban” to ban users

[@r-a-y Keymaster 13 years, 9 months ago]

[EDIT]
“blocked” and “inactive” roles appear to come from bbPress as this is not native to WordPress. My suggestion would be to *not* use these roles at all for the moment.

If you’re using multisite, just use WordPress’ native Network Admin user administration panel and set users as spammers:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Network_Admin_Users_Screen

Do not use the regular WP admin users screen for this!
https://codex.wordpress.org/Users_Users_SubPanel

[@pjnu Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

I apologize for not fully understanding the issue.
I disabled Buddypress per @DJpaul ‘s suggestion, and @r-a-y ‘s followup post explains how to approach this.

Thank you.

[@djpaul Keymaster 13 years, 9 months ago]

@pjnu How had you installed bbPress for this site? Via the easy click method in BuddyPress?

[@pjnu Participant 13 years, 9 months ago]

@DJpaul Yeah, the easy click method.

[@dunc Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

I marked a large number of users as spammers to temporarily block them from the site. When I reinstated them all of their BP data had gone (custom fields, activity, etc)! I don’t know if this is ‘normal’ behaviour for BP so I suggest anyone considering doing this tests it first.

I’ve done a complete restore from back up and am now looking for an alternative. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Thanks.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

This issue hasn’t been addressed yet. See:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3099

It’s probably best to keep backups in the meantime.

[@dunc Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

It sounds like your patch only covers activity. When I unmarked the spammed users there was no x_profile data, friends, groups, blogs or messages either.

I was running BP 1.2.8 and WP 3.1.1.

[@dunc Participant 13 years, 7 months ago]

… in multi-site mode.