Description
This plugin creates a new role named “Admin” that is the same as “Administr’ator” with the following changes:
In WP-Admin
- Hide / Remove Settings menu
- Hide / Remove Plugins menu
- Hide / Remove Tools menu
- Hide / Remove Users menu
- Disable theme installation
- Disable theme switching
- Hide / Remove Appearance > Editor
- Disable WP core updates
- Hide non-essential dashboard items
3rd party plugin compatibility
- Advanced Custom Fields (Elliot Condon) – hide ACF menu, only admins/developers should be modifying ACF definitions/rules/fields
- Contact Form 7 – user can only read contact form ’submissions
- Gravity Forms (RocketGenius) – user can view form entries but not edit forms or create new ones
- iThemes Security – hide iThemes security menus
- Sucuri Scanner (Sucuri) – hide security scan information
- TablePress – Show/Edit/Import/Export TablePress content (all tabs except plugin options)
- Ultimate Branding (WPMU Dev) – hide branding menu
- Yoast SEO – hide Yoast SEO settings menu (also hide the SEO metabox when editing pages/posts by upgrading to Webmaster User Role Pro)
Upgrade to the Pro version of this plugin to get a settings panel to customize the admin dashboard specifically for your client:
Screenshots
Installation
Install and activate, there are no settings in the free version of this plugin. Webmaster User Role is built with a carefully chosen set of permissions intended for the majority of clients. There are many free options available for further tweaking user permissions or editing the admin menu. We also have a Pro version that makes it easy to customize for your clients.
FAQ
- Installation Instructions
-
Install and activate, there are no settings in the free version of this plugin. Webmaster User Role is built with a carefully chosen set of permissions intended for the majority of clients. There are many free options available for further tweaking user permissions or editing the admin menu. We also have a Pro version that makes it easy to customize for your clients.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Webmaster User Role” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors“Webmaster User Role” has been translated into 5 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Webmaster User Role” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
1.3.3
- Fixed: members_get_capabilities() conflict with Members plugin
1.3.2
- Improved: Improve ’support for new Gravity Forms version
- Fixed: register_scripts_and_styles PHP warning
- Fixed: potential is’sue with webmaster user being given no access permissions
1.3.1
- Improved: Show Yoast metabox when editing pages (still hide settings) by default
1.3
- New: Hide Users menu (often requested, and really the webmaster user couldn’t do much in this screen anyway)
- New: Add ’support for ACF5 (hide Custom Fields Menu compatible with new version)
- New: Add ’support for Contact Form 7
- New: Add ’support for iThemes Security
1.21
- New: Add ’support for TablePress [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/]
v 1.2
- Multisite bugfix: Prevent webmaster from removing users from individual sites
- Multisite bugfix: Stop removing Settings & Tools from network administr’ator
1.1.1
- New: Now hides non-essential dashboard items
- Fixed: Fixes a conflict with Mizzo theme (thanks djesch)
1.1
- New: Add ’support for Sucuri Scanner [https://wordpress.org/plugins/’sucuri-scanner/]
- New: Add ’support for Advanced Custom Fields [https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/]
- New: Remove tools menu – so webmaster users can’t import/export/migrate/find&replace
1.0.9
- New: Add ’support for Ultimate Branding [http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/ultimate-branding/]
1.0.8
- Improved: Add Gravity Forms edit_forms capability as an option (only allows entry viewing by default) via filter:
add_filter( ‘td-webmaster-user-roleoption_cap_gravityforms_edit_forms’, __return_true );
1.0.7
- New: Remove settings menu from wp-admin
1.0.5
- New: Remove capability to delete users
1.0.4
- Improved: Add “editor” cap for role so plugins checking for “editor” explicitly work
1.0.3
- New: Remove capabiilty to add, edit, promote users
- New: Remove capability to update core
1.0.2
- Initial Release