Clean Zombie Users

Version 0.4d (beta)

Description:

Anyone who has run a WordPress site for more than a few weeks knows that 95% of all site registrations typically come from spammers. When they can't get a comment approved, they just sit in the database, clogging up the works.

We call these folks Zombie users, and they're coming for your brains.

This is a plugin designed to do one thing: clean up zombie users.

If you have a WordPress site with lots spammer registrations, this plugin will delete any user who has never had a post or comment approved. Zombie Users... BRAAAAINS.

The official downlaod site for this plugin is at WordPress

[Download the Clean Up Zombie Users (spammers)] 1 plugin here This is the mirrored GIT for development. Official releases are all handled by the WP repo.

Included Features:

• Target specific user roles for deletion based on whether they have ever posted or commented
• Includes a test mode to see what the results will be
• Includes the ability to delete users in chunks, for large sites.

To Do:

• Allow newer users to be excluded
• Build in logic for all major e-commerce plugins so that paying customers can't be pruned
• Boolean values don't really need to be sanitized, but we're going to do it anyway
• Save selections as session data between submit & results
• Need to make the entire introductory message change after a post
• Need to put the deleted users list into a scrolling DIV
• Investigate AJAX updates as the plugin works
• Investigate the ability to protect users without changing their roles
• Investigate the ability to line-item delete users, or remove them from the operation

Installation

1. Upload "test-plugin.php" to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the \Plugins\ menu in WordPress.
3. Visit the options page in your administrative settings and get cleaning

Changelog

= 0.4d =

• Properly sanitized the text field for limiting results

= 0.4c =

• Broke up the plugin into smaller files for greater readability
• Properly enqueued styles & scripts

= 0.4b =

• Fixed the undefined index in dynamic variables on lines 71 and 72.
• Fixed a jQuery mistake in the confirmation conditional
• Plugin now 100% error free in testing.

= 0.4a =

• Fixed the has_cap warning by changing "8" to "manage_options" in option page permissions