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How to Restrict or Limit Usernames & User Emails in WordPress Free_ Characters Guide To Secure Site
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Oct 16, 2023
In this instructional video, you'll discover how to secure your WordPress website by restricting or limiting usernames and user emails. By implementing character limitations and security measures, you can safeguard your site against potential threats and unauthorized access. This guide provides step-by-step instructions on setting up these restrictions for enhanced website protection. If you're a WordPress site owner looking to bolster your security and maintain greater control over user accounts, this video offers valuable insights for a safer online presence.
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what's up guys here's cloudy from visual model wordpress teams and in today's video gonna give
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you a very very important security tip in the case that you have a membership or any kind of
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online community website and you need to manage it okay into this video we're gonna learn how to
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for free how to add restrictions or limitations to your created usernames or emails okay imagine
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that you have a public form where persons users can create username and passwords on your site
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okay i'm entering the name the email and some information they don't need to create this
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usernames okay these accounts and these persons may create usernames just like the website
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admins the website moderators so you may not want to give this person's permissions to create some
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kind of characters some kind of names some kind of bad words okay so you can it can create a
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community problem so for security you may need to restrict or limit the user names that you
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create on your site for example some kind of word isn't alloyed some kind of domain isn't alloyed
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how to do this in wordpress is what we're gonna learn into this video but before i can continue
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SEO plugins, optimizations and many many more topics in order to use
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international sites favor. So let's get this started. The very first thing to do
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is navigate your WordPress dashboard, review the left sidebar of menus over
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mouse over plugins and click on add new. Into the upper right corner of your
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screen, next to the keyword you're gonna be able to see a field called search
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plugins click on it and just type his strict username email character okay so just like this this nice plugin you gonna click on install now then you gonna click into the activate button no need to worry as soon as you do this WordPress
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gonna redirect you to the plugins list a list where we can see all of the present plugins on
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our site but let's focus into the left sidebar of menus once again screw it down until you see the
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settings field and if you hover mouse over settings now we're gonna be able
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to see a new sub menu right here called restrict username emails characters
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click on it then what we can do right here first of all we can enable or
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disable we're gonna need to enable this and we can start customizing our
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restrictions and limitations according to your community needs okay in your security problems but I'm gonna explore every single one of them so you can start understanding
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it okay first of all it's the name of your user login form if you are using some custom username
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registration or login form that isn't it WordPress the full one you need to enter the name right here
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if it's the default one nothing to do then the same for email okay now not a lossy space in
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usernames. This is important. Not-alloy use only numbers in the username. This is
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important as well for security of course. The digits must be less than the
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characters in the username. So up to you you can enable or not. Not no uppercase
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in username. Up to you as well. Do not allow usernames that are email addresses
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This is important for security. Okay, because some person with bad intentions can guess that this username has this exact
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email match Okay so I recommend it Okay prevent the use of all symbols and letters associated with username a quite hard setting right here i recommend to give it off choose language
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characters in username the full language by wordpress it's up to you but the default is good
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okay prevent the use of characters symbols permitted by wordpress so here is some symbols
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example in the case that you do not want to let persons create usernames with symbols you can
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enter the symbols right here one per line please then the same thing but this is no recommended
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okay so you can allow some symbols not recommend not alloy those emails you can enter some emails
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to not be a lawyer okay not a lawyer those names you can create for example
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name one name two name three okay it's up to you but you can enter all the
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information should not be a lawyer right here for example bad words trend market
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names okay then another important section restriction by part okay so you
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can text the direction you can restrict other important things right here not
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alloy those email domains okay so you can enter with the domain name okay so in
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the case that I do not want to let anyone form using a Gmail on your site
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just type Gmail calm up to you but it's very very important in the case that we
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having a massive number of fake users creation okay then the minimum left for
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the username max left for username left spaces I text not seen they leave all
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data and settings from plugging of the database up to you as well and we have other settings right here to export and import settings after all changes made review the upper right corner of your screen and click into the
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save chains we have other options right here we have a new tab called error message where we can
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fully customize the error message that the user may not see or not into your site okay so up to
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you but important in the case that i want to change the language for example okay then we have
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some important not see it's about hooks okay so if you're using the login error this is also
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fact hesitation ehr messages okay so take a moment to reveal this part and here we go you have all
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sets and you have enhanced in the security of your membership website and it is i hope you guys
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