WordPress Review Plugin - How To - Restrict or BLOCK Specific Users (from leaving Reviews and Ratings)


Restricting Access to Specific Users

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With the WordPress Review plugin, if you wish to restrict certain users from submitting reviews and ratings, navigate to Admin Dashboard â†’ CM Reviews â†’ Settings â†’ Access Restrictions tab.

Access restrictions settings tab - Product Review WordPress Plugin
Access restrictions settings tab

Access Restrictions

On this page you will find different options in moderating different users.

You can choose to:

  • Allow or disallow guests (logged-out and/or unregistered users) to leave reviews and ratings.
  • Allow or disallow specific user roles to leave reviews and ratings.
Choosing who is allowed to rate posts - WordPress Testimonials Plugin
Choosing who is allowed to rate posts

But more importantly, you can also target-block a specific user by using his IP address:

Blocking specific IP addresses - WordPress Rating Plugin
Blocking specific IP addresses

In this section, you can save a user's IP address in order to prevent him from being able to leave Reviews and Ratings on any of your posts. You can add unlimited number of IPs, simply separate each one with a comma.

How does it work? Blocked users will be able to continue accessing your website, posts and even read reviews submitted by others, but the Review form will simply not be displayed for them anywhere on the site

Once you finished editing restriction, click the Save Changes button.

Saving the changes - WordPress Rating Widget
Saving the changes

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