Ga Satrya

Remove dashboard access to non-admin users and easily control who can access your WordPress dashboard with simple configuration. By default, only administrators are allowed, but you can now whitelist specific trusted users by username—perfect for developers, VAs, or contractors.
Features include:
<ul>
<li>Whitelist specific users by username</li>
<li>Session expiration controls (1-24 hours)</li>
<li>Option to apply session timeout to administrators</li>
<li>Custom redirect URL for blocked users</li>
<li>Secure, validated, and sanitized settings</li>
<li>Hide admin toolbar for non-authorized users</li>
<li>Developer-friendly filters for advanced customization</li>
</ul>
Why Choose Disable Dashboard Access?
<ul>
<li>Maximum Protection: Instantly block unauthorized users from accessing sensitive dashboard areas.</li>
<li>Effortless Whitelisting: Grant dashboard access to trusted users (developers, VAs, contractors) without changing their roles. Just add their usernames!</li>
<li>Session Security: Automatically log out users after a set period for bulletproof session management. Choose from multiple timeout intervals and apply to all users or just non-admins.</li>
<li>Custom Redirects: Guide blocked users to a branded page or helpful resource instead of the generic homepage.</li>
<li>Zero Configuration Needed: Works out of the box—only administrators can access the dashboard until you customize settings.</li>
</ul>
Perfect For:
<ul>
<li>Website owners who want peace of mind</li>
<li>Agencies and developers managing multiple sites</li>
<li>Teams needing granular dashboard access</li>
<li>Anyone serious about WordPress security</li>
</ul>
Protect your site, empower your workflow, and deliver a professional experience—all with one lightweight plugin.

Disable Dashboard Access

Disable Dashboard Access: Only admins can access the dashboard by default. Whitelist trusted users easily, quick setup, and secure.

Pierre Lannoy

Hosterra

Sessions is a powerful sessions manager for WordPress with a multi-criteria sessions limiter and full analytics reporting about logins, logouts and account creation. It relies on the standard WordPress sessions manager and add it extra features and controls.
You can limit concurrent sessions, on a per role basis for the following criteria:
<ul>
<li>count per user;</li>
<li>count per IP adresses;</li>
<li>count per country (requires the free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ip-locator/" rel="ugc">IP Locator</a> plugin);</li>
<li>count per device classes and types, client types, browser or OS (requires the free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/device-detector/" rel="ugc">Device Detector</a> plugin).</li>
</ul>
For each roles defined on your site, you can also block login based on private/public IP ranges, and define idle times for sessions auto-termination.
You can also set a maximum number of IPs used for each user – useful to limit credential sharing between many people.
Sessions can report the following main items and metrics:
<ul>
<li>KPIs: login success, active sessions, cleaned sessions, active users, turnover and spam sessions;</li>
<li>active and cleaned sessions details;</li>
<li>users and sessions variations;</li>
<li>moves distribution;</li>
<li>login/logout breakdowns;</li>
<li>password resets;</li>
</ul>
Sessions supports a set of WP-CLI commands to:
<ul>
<li>manage WordPress active sessions (list, kill) – see <code>wp help sessions active</code> for details;</li>
<li>toggle on/off main settings – see <code>wp help sessions settings</code> for details;</li>
<li>modify operations mode – see <code>wp help sessions mode</code> for details;</li>
<li>display sessions and accounts statistics – see <code>wp help sessions analytics</code> for details.</li>
</ul>
For a full help on WP-CLI commands in Sessions, please <a href="https://perfops.one/sessions-wpcli" rel="nofollow ugc">read this guide</a>.
<blockquote>
Sessions is part of <a href="https://perfops.one/" rel="nofollow ugc">PerfOps One</a>, a suite of free and open source WordPress plugins dedicated to observability and operations performance.
</blockquote>
Sessions is a free and open source plugin for WordPress. It integrates many other free and open source works (as-is or modified). Please, see ‘about’ tab in the plugin settings to see the details.
<h4>Support</h4>
This plugin is free and provided without warranty of any kind. Use it at your own risk, I’m not responsible for any improper use of this plugin, nor for any damage it might cause to your site. Always backup all your data before installing a new plugin.
Anyway, I’ll be glad to help you if you encounter issues when using this plugin. Just use the support section of this plugin page.
<h4>Privacy</h4>
This plugin, as any piece of software, is neither compliant nor non-compliant with privacy laws and regulations. It is your responsibility to use it – by activating the corresponding options or services – with respect for the personal data of your users and applicable laws.
This plugin doesn’t set any cookie in the user’s browser.
This plugin may handle personally identifiable information (PII). If the GDPR or CCPA or similar regulation applies to your case, you must adapt your processes (consent management, security measure, treatment register, etc.).
<h4>Donation</h4>
If you like this plugin or find it useful and want to thank me for the work done, please consider making a donation to <a href="https://www.laquadrature.net/en" rel="nofollow ugc">La Quadrature Du Net</a> or the <a href="https://www.eff.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> which are advocacy groups defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. By supporting them, you help the daily actions they perform to defend our fundamental freedoms!

Sessions

The plugin is overly complex (I like my plugins to do just one thing) and puts two top level items in the wordpres menu.

Also relies on javascript and ajax so it is not parrticularly robust


Just do one job and do it simply and dont take over the admin and I´d be happy to give 5 stars

I want to love this plugin BUT

Powerful sessions manager for WordPress with sessions limiter and full analytics reporting capabilities.

Disable Dashboard Access vs Sessions