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Restrict Usernames Emails Characters

Restrict the usernames, email addresses, characters and symbols or email from specific domain names or language in registration ...

By Benaceur·Security·Free
4.5(25 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months ago
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As of April 2026, Restrict Usernames Emails Characters is a WordPress security plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 25 reviews. It has been downloaded 39K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP 5.3.19+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Downloads are up 14% this week. Top alternative: Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware….

4.5/525 reviews
1.0K+active installs
39K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016

Overview

This plugin allows you to Restrict a particular or certain username, email addresses or symbols,
or email from specific domain names in the form registration when registering for your site
and you can allow to use a certain language (arabic cyrillic latin …)
or all languages and characters and symbols, you can also control and modify all errors messages
and allow certain characters (Symbols and characters accented as é û),
and allowing you to change the author slug (defaults to the username of the author),
and you can control and adjust all settings from the plugin settings page in admin Panel.

and here is all plugin settings in admin Panel:

  • enable/disable the plugin
  • disallow to use the spaces in username
  • disallow to use only numbers in username
  • disallow all characters (Symbols) in…
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

4.525 reviews
5 ★
20
4 ★
2
3 ★
1
2 ★
0
1 ★
2

Recent Reviews

Awesome Plugin
by Alex·9 months ago

Exactly Does what we needed, Loved the plugin.

Perfect :D
by chelminski·1 year ago

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

Perfect!
by GyziieDK·1 year ago

This plugin is very powerful and useful.
It’s super simple to setup – and it JUST WORKS!

Just what I needed – thank you!

Brilliant Plugin
by mikejj101·1 year ago

Brilliant plugin that solves all sorts of issues with user names

Works Great
by ellice909·2 years 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.

Download Trends

Today: 11Yesterday: 15This week: 87Period total: 5K

Compatibility

WordPress3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHP5.3.19+ required

Version Adoption

v4.1
86.5%
v3.1
9.2%
Other
4.3%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

4.1.2

  • Tested up to wordpress 6.9
  • Tested up to php 8.5
  • Deprecated “seems_utf8” function in wordpress 6.9
  • Fix: “Allow this characters (Symbols or characters accented …)” option.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

BenaceurBenaceur
Plugin Info
Version
4.1.2
Last Updated
Dec 1, 2025
WP Requires
3.0+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
5.3.19+
Active Installs
1.0K+
Downloads
39K+
Added
Sep 5, 2016
Business
Free

Tags

securityanti-spamauthor slugregistrationrestrict user

Developer

B
Benaceur
3 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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