Users that are NOT admins (subscribers, ..) are not allowed to modify their own profiles. "Profile" tab is removed from wordpress admin.
As of April 2026, WP User Vandalism Protection is a WordPress subscriber plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Subscriber by BestWebSoft.
Do you offer a test user to potential clients for a WordPress site? Then you really need “WP User Vandalism Protection” plugin, to protect yourself from bad people that will modify your test account.
“WP User Vandalism Protection” removes “Profile” tab from admin bar and side menu, where users can edit their profile and kill profile page if user isn’t an administrator.
Why did we do it?
In order to let potential clients to test the plugins we are creating, we offered a test site, with a test subscriber user. We communicated the user and password for the test user to potential clients.
So far so good.
The problem was that some people, once they logged in, they changed the name, email and password, which was very annoying, because the rest of potent…
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 3.9.40 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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