Easily create custom user roles, manage capabilities, hide admin menus, and restrict access to specific plugins and appearance settings.
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Modern role editor, multiple roles, content control and smart role rules for WordPress.
Premmerce User Rolesv1.0.17
This plugin has been developed for creating user roles from the WordPress admin area and assigning the arbitrary access rights to them.
Complete WordPress role, permission, and user management system with smart detection, presets, temporary permissions, and menu visibility control.
Create static custom admin screens with the WordPress editor, limit them to roles or users, and redirect users to a screen right after login.
Control who can view pages with a simple checkbox — restrict access to logged-in users and roles, right from the WordPress page editor.
Turn your WordPress menu into smart navigation. Show the right links to the right people.
Qaiyo Access Managerv1.4.0
Control which plugins, post types and taxonomies each role or user can access, with allow/deny rules, per-user overrides and a shortcode.
Block Editor Rolesv1.0.1
Enables role management for Gutenberg editor. Allows to define which Gutenberg blocks can be added and how they can be edited.
Control which user roles can access specific Contact Form 7 forms and restrict CFDB7 submissions visibility accordingly.