About this plugin
Dreamfox Client Edit Mode is built for agencies and freelancers who deliver WordPress sites and then hand them over. Your client gets a restricted Client Editor role: they can update text, swap images and change links on exactly the pages you assign — and nothing else. Layout, styling and page structure are locked, and the lock is enforced on the server, not just hidden in the editor UI.
How it works
- Protect the pages the client may edit.
- Assign one or more Client Editor users to those pages.
- Choose per page (and optionally per user) whether text, images and links may be changed.
Every save by a Client Editor is compared against the stored page by a permission diff engine: only allowed changes go through. Adding, removing, moving or restyling elements is rejected with a clear message — the layout you delivered cannot be broken.
Server-side enforcement
The editor UI is locked down for the role (content-only editing, no style panels, no block inserter), but that is comfort, not the security. The real protection runs on the server on every save route:
- The block editor’s REST save — rejected with a clear per-violation error in the editor.
- Classic admin saves and XML-RPC — a late wp_insert_post_data guard.
- Page-level access — map_meta_cap pins Client Editors to their assigned protected pages; everything else (including deleting and creating posts) is denied.
- Elementor-built pages — Client Editors can open the Elementor editor, and saving plus direct _elementor_data writes are validated the same way as everywhere else.
What the client sees
- A simplified admin: a My Pages screen with an Edit button per assigned page, irrelevant menus and toolbar items hidden.
- An optional “Edit this page” toolbar link on their assigned pages.
- Clear error messages when a change is not allowed, instead of a broken layout.
What you keep
- Every allowed change creates a normal WordPress revision — nothing is ever overwritten without a trace.
- An activity log of allowed and blocked saves (summaries only: element IDs and attribute names, never full content, never IP addresses), with configurable retention.
- Text / image / link permissions per page, with per-user overrides.
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Product page: Client Edit Mode.
Guides and tutorials
- Let clients edit WordPress text without breaking the layout