Clean Up Zombie Users (spammers)

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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. 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: An [x] indicates this is done in the development version [ ] 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 [x] Trim ” | User Role” from the end of role listings on older WP sites. [ ] 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 Ongoing Development If you would like to contribute something, find the plugin at: https://github.com/isarmstrong/clean-zombie-users