This plugin gives you the ability to disable user accounts via profile setting..
Once installed and activated, checkbox appears on the user profile settings.
When checked, the account will be disabled and they will be unable to login with the account.
If they try to login, they are instantly logged out and redirected to the login page with message that notifies them their account is disabled..
You working on site for client who has account, but do not want him to login and or make changes during development..
Can I change the message user sees..
Disable account without deleting the user..
Surprisingly this isn't feature built into WordPress, and even more surprising there isn't another plugin out there that does this.
This does what I needed — simple plugin that lets me disable user with just checkbox.
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