Member Management System, An Anti Spamming Tool

October 8, 2013 | 2997 Views

By default, Social Engine offers you to ban or manage members who are spammers or post unwanted content in the site.

However when a site becomes large with thousand of members, the member management becomes out of control.

With the plugin Member Management System, the site admin spends less time on controlling this because he easily assigns moderators or normal users to do that via front-end board.

It’s extremely convenient for admin or moderator groups to manage, ban or alert a member, a group of members by email addresses or IPs, not in admin panel, but on the front-end.

In this tutorial, we will introduce the following features of Member Management System.

Manage users
Manage banned users
Put “Extra Info” widget into member profile to view more information of member.

Let’s get started!

1. Manage users (Figure 1):

Figure 1. Manage Users

With each user, you have more options then your Admin Panel: view IPs, ban, delete…

+ View IPs: view all IPs that users accessed to your site.

+ Ban/Unban: Ban or Unban user directly when viewing their profile. It will be clarified in the next section.

+ Delete users

2. Manage banned users

Ban one or multiple users or IPs at the time (Figure 2)

Figure 2: Ban users

You can set up a cronjob for your site to unban users automatically. Please refer to our knowledge base for more information. (Cronjob)

Manage banned users (Figure 3)

Figure 3. Banned Member Management page

In this page you can view and manage all banned members, IPs…

3. Put “Extra Info” widget into member profile to view more information.

After dragging “Extra Info” widget to member profile page you can view more information and take more admin actions directly to the profile owner. (Figure 4-a)

Figure 4-a: Back-end – Extra info widget

Here is an example in front-end (Figure 4-b):

Figure 4- b: “Extra Info” widget

+ Add note: you can create an instanse to note the user profile (Figure 5).

Figure 5: Add note for a user

Especially, you are flexible to configure settings for a specific Member Level from admin dashborad to perform particular administrative actions on their Member Management area. Go to Admin> Plugins> Member Management> Member Level Settings to adjust the settings(Figure 6):