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Describr – Community, User Profile, Content Restriction & Role Editor Plugin

The best community plugin for WordPress: front-end user profiles, content restriction, user roles, and more.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version3.1.3
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 6.0 · PHP 7.0
Directory statusactive
Last directory update1 Sept 20262mo ago
Active installationsNewAdoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 1 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Describr – Community, User Profile, Content Restriction & Role Editor Plugin version 3.1.3 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Describr is the best community and user profile plugin for WordPress. Describr makes it easy to create beautiful user profiles on the front end. Describr makes it easy for you to create websites where users can have front-end profiles.

Major Features:

  • Front-end user profiles.
  • Front-end account page.
  • Allows you to create capabilities, grant/deny capabilities to user roles, and delete user roles.
  • Allows you to grant users having specific roles the capability to delete their accounts on the front end.
  • Allows you to restrict content on user profiles using user roles.
  • Allows you to choose the fields that are shown on user profiles and the account page.
  • Allows you to activate or deactivate users.
  • Allows you to set Default User Status.
  • Allows you to change users’ status.
  • Allows you to force users to confirm their accounts.
  • Adds password field to registration form.
  • Email notifications.
  • Users can send messages to each other.
  • Users can block other users.
  • Users can upload profile photos.
  • Users can grant access to their profiles to specific set of users.
  • Shows author posts & comments on user profiles.
  • Extensible with many filters and actions.

See the structure of the URLs used to locate user profiles and account page on the front end here.

PS: If a feature does not work properly, report it at our support page, and we will fix the issue as soon as possible.

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Feedback

The plugin has many downloads, over 2000, but few active installations. This makes us very interested in finding out why people download the plugin but decide not to use it. If you fall into this category, we kindly ask that you leave your feedback at our Facebook page.

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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • user profile
  • community
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.0 · PHP 7.0
Update activity1 Sept 20262mo ago

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