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Restrict Usernames Emails Characters · Version history

Restrict Usernames Emails Characters changelog and version history

Latest version
5.1
Oct 13, 2026 (28 days ago)
Releases
50
since 2016
In the last year
6
about one every 63 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 5.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20168 releases
  • 201712 releases
  • 20183 releases
  • 20192 releases
  • 20206 releases
  • 20214 releases
  • 20222 releases
  • 20232 releases
  • 20245 releases
  • 20251 release
  • 20265 releases

20265 releases

  1. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 5.1Latest

    • Necessary security patches.
    • Tested up to WP 7.1.*

  2. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 5.0.3

    • Update file

  3. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 5.0.2

    • Updated to WordPress 7.*

  4. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 5.0.1

    • Fixed an error: when saving user data in backend.

  5. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 5.0

    • Fixed error: The absence of the “benrueeg users” table if one or more blogs exist in a multisite.
    • Fixed: author’s slug when news users is activated in multisite if “Prevent the use of all Symbols and letters accented in the username” option is enabled.
    • Fixed: compatibility with buddyboss.
    • Fixed: error message in backend with multi and single site and baddypress and buddyboss.
    • Fixed: error message for nickname in buddyboss.
    • New option: “Choose the method to update the database, manually or automatically”.
    • New option: “Disable/Enable errors in backend for certain capability”.
    • Remove options: “The name of the user_login field in registration form” and “The name of the user_email field in registration form”.
    • Remove options: “Remove the name field from the form of registration” and “Hide the entire section of the profile in the form of registration” for baddypress and baddyboss.
    • Changing the class names.
    • New filters: “filter_benrueeg_intval_update_process”,”benrueeg_filter_updb_per_get_users”,”benrueeg_cap_can_create_users”,”benrueeg_cap_can_create_users_backend”,”benrueeg_rue_delete_signup_item_activeted”
    • Remove filters: “benrueeg_filter_class_txt_register_form”.
    • New error message: ‘Error: password is required’ (baddyboss).
    • New error message: ‘Error: Empty field’ (baddypress, baddyboss).
    • New error message: ‘Error: email twice’ (baddyboss).
    • New error message: ‘Error: email not match’ (baddyboss).
    • New error message: ‘Error: password twice’ (baddyboss).
    • New error message: ‘Error: password not match’ (baddyboss).
    • New error message: ‘Error: password is not strong’ (baddypress).
    • New error message: ‘Error: acceptance of the privacy policy is required’ (baddypress).
    • New error message: ‘Error: Invalid username in activation process’ (baddypress, baddyboss, multi-site).
    • New error message: ‘Error: Invalid username in activation process in backend (baddypress, baddyboss)’.
    • New error message: ‘Error: Existing username (activation pending) message in backend’ (baddypress, baddyboss, multi-site).
    • New error message: ‘Error: Existing username (activation pending) message in frontend’ (baddypress, baddyboss, multi-site).
    • New error message: ‘Error: Existing email address (activation pending) message in backend’ (baddypress, baddyboss, multi-site).
    • New error message: ‘Error: Existing email address (activation pending) message in frontend’ (baddypress, baddyboss, multi-site).
    • Fix: User activation will be prevented if the language used for registration before activation has been changed, and an error message will be added indicating this, in (multi-site, baddypress and baddyboss) and in frontend and backend.
    • Prevent username and email from being entered during registration if they already exist and are awaiting activation.
    • Disabling certain options for those with “create_users” capability, such as limiting the number of characters in a name, allows them to create new users without restrictions, while also adding a filter (benrueeg_cap_can_create_users) for this purpose.
    • Restrict using slashes when registering a new member.

20251 release

  1. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 4.1.2

    • Tested up to wordpress 6.9
    • Tested up to php 8.5
    • Deprecated “seems_utf8” function in wordpress 6.9
    • Fix: “Allow this characters (Symbols or characters accented …)” option.

20245 releases

  1. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 4.1.1

    • Tested up to wordpress 6.7

  2. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 4.1

    • New: add compatibility with buddyboss platform.
    • New: add first name and last name in “Author Slug Structure” option.
    • Fix: when “Prevent the use of all Symbols and letters accented in the username” option is enabled.
    • Fix: “Choose language (characters) in username -> Enter another language below” option, If we enter an invalid language.
    • Requires PHP version: minimum 5.3.19
    • New option: Remove the submit button (top): Ability to remove the send button at the top.
    • Tested up to wordpress 6.6

  3. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 4.0.2

    • Fixed: “Prevent the use of all Symbols and letters accented in the username” option.

  4. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 4.0.1

    • Important fixes.

  5. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 4.0

    • Fixed: “Allow this characters” option and block of < > symbols.
    • Changing the way to save the user_nicename in the database when registering or updating the database.
    • You can now divide the total database update by the number of users to reduce the load on the server if your database is very big.
    • Fixed: user nicename issue with non-Latin languages like Arabic when registering a new user or updating a user.
    • Remove restrict username email character mu-plugins.
    • New filters: “user_nicename_updb_filter_benrueeg_rue” and “user_nicename_register_filter_benrueeg_rue”.
    • New option: “Limit the number of users to update (in batches) with every click”, “Update (convert) only user_nicename not latin”.
    • New option: “Author Slug Structure”.
    • New option: “Update (convert) only names (author slug) not latin”.
    • New notes.
    • Reinstatement of the option: “Error: multi whitespace and at the beginning or the end of the username”.
    • Tested up to wordpress 6.5
    • Other important adjustments.

20232 releases

  1. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 3.1.4

    • Fixing a security issue (relatively low-risk).
    • Tested up to wordpress 6.4
    • Fix: Replace (Must be at least 4 characters …) translation option in multisite.

  2. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 3.1.2

    • Tested up to wordpress 6.2

20222 releases

  1. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 3.1

    • Tested up to wordpress 6.1.
    • Fixed: user nicename non Latin when a user’s profile is updated with wordpress 6.1

  2. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 3.0

    • Fixed: user nicename issue with non-Latin languages like Arabic when wordpress is updated or database is upgraded.
    • Fixed: user nicename issue with non-Latin languages like Arabic when registering a new user or updating a user.
    • Fixed: “Choose language (characters) in username” option.
    • Add new option: “Choose the user_nicename”.
    • Some other important adjustments.

20214 releases

  1. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.9.6

    • Add new option: “Make lowercase equal uppercase”.
    • Tested up to wordpress 5.8
    • Some adjustments.

  2. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.9.5

    • trim the blank space in username.

  3. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.9.4

    • Tested up to wordpress 5.7

  4. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.9.3

    • Change of sanitize user filter priority.

20206 releases

  1. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.9.2

    • Tested up to wordpress 5.6

  2. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.9.1

    • Tested up to wordpress 5.5.
    • Some adjustments in page plugin options in admin panel.

  3. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.9

    • Adding an option to change the name of username if the field ‘name’ of user_name in the registration form is changed.
    • Adding an option to change the name of email if the field ‘name’ of user_email in the registration form is changed.
    • Adding the options page of plugin to only network page if the multi site is installed.
    • Remove option ‘Allow spaces in usernames’ if baddypress or multisite is enabled.

  4. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.8.2

    • Add array_filter and array_unique to array.

  5. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.8.1

    • Fixed a problem with “array_filter” in options: “Not allow these names” and “Restriction by part (contain,doesn’t contain,starts with,ends with)”.
    • Fixed an error in the import process of the settings file.
    • Fixed an java error in options administration page.

  6. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.8

    • Tested with the latest wordpress update (5.4).
    • Fixed an error when entering a language that does not exist, in “Choose language -> Enter another langage below”.
    • Replacing “ERROR” with “Error” in wordpress (5.4).
    • Adding “text direction” option in textarea in options administration page.
    • New option in “Restriction by part (contain,doesn’t contain,starts with,ends with)”.
    • New option: “Restrict everything except the following (after @)” and “Restrict everything except the following (after .)” in “Not allow these emails domain”.
    • New option “Solved the problem of not being able to register with certain languages”.
    • Adding an class (css) in “Add text (notice) to the registration form” option by this filter: “benrueeg_filter_class_txt_register_form”.
    • Fixed an error in “Import Settings” option.
    • new note in “Important to read”.
    • Tested with the latest php version (5.1.5 to 7.4.x).
    • Some other important adjustments.

20192 releases

  1. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.7.3

  2. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.7.2

20183 releases

  1. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.7

  2. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.6

  3. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.5

201712 releases

  1. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.4.3

  2. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.4.2

  3. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.4.1

  4. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.4

  5. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.3

  6. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.2.4

  7. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.2.3

  8. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.2.2

  9. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.2.1

  10. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.2

  11. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.1

  12. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 2.0

20168 releases

  1. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 1.2.1

  2. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 1.2

  3. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 1.1.4

  4. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 1.1.3

  5. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 1.1.2

  6. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 1.1.1

  7. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 1.1

  8. Restrict Usernames Emails Characters 1.0

Questions about Restrict Usernames Emails Characters’s releases

What is the latest version of Restrict Usernames Emails Characters?

5.1, released on Oct 13, 2026 (4 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 5.4 or later.

How often is Restrict Usernames Emails Characters updated?

6 releases in the last year, about one every 63 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from September 2016.

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