Title: Plugin: WP-Deadbolt
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Plugin: WP-Deadbolt

 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-deadbolt/)
 * WP-Deadbolt is a plugin for WordPress 2.1
 * In addition to the plugin, I have provided an alternate release that allows WordPress
   2.0.x users to achieve the same result, however, doing so requires that you edit
   one core WordPress file, wp-register.php. The need for this stemmed from the 
   lack of a hook in WordPress 2.0.6 and below.
 * WP-Deadbolt (the plugin) and deadbolt (the alternate release) provide a means
   for WordPress blog admins to restrict certain e-mails from being registered.
 * For instance, do you get a lot of signups from a domain that appears to be spammy?
   Now you can block them from registering with that e-mail address.
 * Don’t like gmail, or hotmail? Block em with a deadbolt. Done deal.
 * Details on both files, and downloads are available at [http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2007/01/10/wp-deadbolt/](http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2007/01/10/wp-deadbolt/)
 * ——–
 * PS: If the neccessary hook that is provided in 2.1 is later added to the 2.0.
   x series, the 2.1 plugin version will work. At this time, as of 2.0.6 it does
   not.

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