Expire Users for User Profiles Made Easy
Automatically remove users without activations and approvals
Expire Users for User Profiles Made Easy is a free addon provided by UPME for expiring and removing the users who fail to activate their email or get approval in a given time frame. This is the ideal way for blocking an removing spam users from your site.
Installation
- You should have already installed UPME version 2.2.06 or higher, before using this addon.
- Upload and extract the upme-expire-users zip file into /wp-contents/plugins folder in your WordPress installation.
- Activate the addon using Plugins section of WordPress.
- Now you are ready to get started.
Usage
- Once addon is activated, you will see the settings section in left menu called UPME Expire Users as shown in the following screenshot.
Let’s identify the settings
- Remove Users Registered After – This setting defines the start date for expiring the users. Users who registered before this date will not be removed regardless of the other settings.
- Remove Users with Inactive Email Confirmation After – This settings defines number of days where user will be allowed to activate their email after registration. Once the number of days exceeds from the registration date, user will be removed from the WordPress users table.
- Remove Users with Inactive User Approval After – This settings defines number of days where user will be allowed to get account approval after registration. Once the number of days exceeds from the registration date, user will be removed from the WordPress users table.
Users will be checked using a hourly cron event and expired users will be removed from the WordPress users table. The removed users will be added to a custom table for reference. You can view the removed users list using the UPME Expire Users -> Expired Users List section as shown in the following screenshot.
You should have Email Confirmation or User Profile Approvals enabled to make use of this addon.
