Restrict the usernames, email addresses, characters and symbols or email from specific domain names or language in registration ...
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….
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.
Exactly Does what we needed, Loved the plugin.
I dont have money to send to dev, but I love plugin
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 that solves all sorts of issues with user names
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.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.3.19+ required |
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