Controlled Admin Access vs User Role Editor

Give a temporary limited admin. access to themes designers, plugins developers and support agents. The plugin is simple and clean, it helps the administrator to create a user with a temporary access and choose which pages in your admin area which you don’t want the user to access. send the details to the user and when he finished his task, you can easily deactivate the account and activate it later. Upgrade to Pro Now Documentation Features Menu Filter The plugin will allow you to select admin menu items that you want to restrict for the created admin. Not only the plugin will hide the menu item from the admin but it also will block the page if they access it in some other way. Expiration Time You may don’t want to give access indefinitely, the plugin allows you to set an expiration time for the restricted admin account. After the account expires, the account will no longer be able to login into the admin dashboard. Moreover, you can always extend the expiry time or change it. Hide Admin Bar WordPress offers an admin bar to provide quick access to some pages or to perform some actions. Using the plugin, you can hide the admin bar links at the top of the page will be hidden in both the frontend and admin areas. Disable Access You can always disable the restricted admin account at any time. For example, if you gave a developer access to fix a bug or install a theme, when they finish the task you can disable their account. This will block login in using the account but it will retain the account’s information in case you wanted to give them access in the future. Pro Features Plugins Internal Pages Take more control and restrict access to plugins’ internal pages. For example, you would like to give access to the WooCommerce Settings page, but you do not want the account to see the Payments Gateways tab. Currently, the plugin supports WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads and BuddyPress. In the future, we will add support for more plugins. No Password Login Add some convenience when sending access to the user, you can generate a secure login URL for the user, and the user will use the link to login into the dashboard without the need for a password. You can also disable login by a password for restricted admins, this will restrict the admin from login in using a password or sending a reset password email. Activity Log Keep track of what restricted admins have done while logged in, the plugin will log more than 20 actions such as activating/deactivating/deleting a plugin, switching a theme, deleting a theme, exporting data, publishing/deleting a post and uploading a file. Remote Logout At any given time, you can force logging out any restricted admin if you no longer need them logged in the admin dashboard. This action will log them out on all logged-in devices and locations.

User Role Editor WordPress plugin allows you to change user roles and capabilities easy. Just turn on check boxes of capabilities you wish to add to the selected role and click “Update” button to save your changes. That’s done. Add new roles and customize its capabilities according to your needs, from scratch of as a copy of other existing role. Unnecessary self-made role can be deleted if there are no users whom such role is assigned. Role assigned every new created user by default may be changed too. Capabilities could be assigned on per user basis. Multiple roles could be assigned to user simultaneously. You can add new capabilities and remove unnecessary capabilities which could be left from uninstalled plugins. Multi-site support is provided. To read more about ‘User Role Editor’ visit this page Do you need more functionality with quality support in a real time? Do you wish to remove advertisements from User Role Editor pages? Buy Pro version. User Role Editor Pro includes extra modules: Block selected admin menu items for role. Hide selected front-end menu items for no logged-in visitors, logged-in users, roles. Block selected widgets under “Appearance” menu for role. Show widgets at front-end for selected roles. Block selected meta boxes (dashboard, posts, pages, custom post types) for role. “Export/Import” module. You can export user role to the local file and import it to any WordPress site or other sites of the multi-site WordPress network. Roles and Users permissions management via Network Admin for multisite configuration. One click Synchronization to the whole network. “Other roles access” module allows to define which other roles user with current role may see at WordPress: dropdown menus, e.g assign role to user editing user profile, etc. Manage user access to editing posts/pages/custom post type using posts/pages, authors, taxonomies ID list. Per plugin users access management for plugins activate/deactivate operations. Per form users access management for Gravity Forms plugin. Shortcode to show enclosed content to the users with selected roles only. Posts and pages view restrictions for selected roles. Admin back-end pages permissions viewer Pro version is advertisement free. Premium support is included. Additional Documentation You can find more information about “User Role Editor” plugin at this page I am ready to answer on your questions about plugin usage. Use plugin page comments for that.