Andreas Andersson

<p>With this plugin, you can manage roles responsibly, define custom capabilities, and assign multiple roles to users effortlessly.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<h3>Manage Roles</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create, edit, and delete user roles with ease.</li>
<li>Maintain flexibility and control over your site’s access permissions.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Manage Capabilities</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add custom capabilities or modify existing ones.</li>
<li>Enable, disable, add, or remove capabilities seamlessly.</li>
<li>Tailor the permissions to suit your site’s specific requirements.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Assign Multiple Roles to a Single User</h3>
<ul>
<li>Enhance user flexibility by allowing multiple roles per user.</li>
<li>Combine capabilities from different roles to create a customized experience for each user.</li>
</ul>
<h3>User Switcher</h3>
<ul>
<li>Log in as any other user directly from the Users list with a single click.</li>
<li>A clear indicator in the admin bar shows when you are operating as a switched user.</li>
<li>Switch back to your original account instantly at any time.</li>
<li>Only users with the ability to edit other users can switch, and you can only switch to users you could otherwise edit — preventing privilege escalation.</li>
</ul>


Aikon Role Manager

Aikon Role Manager empowers you to take full control of user roles and capabilities in WordPress.

Rob Smelik

<h3>Description</h3>
<p>This plugin allows you to selectively display content in your themes active widget areas based on the user roles (Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor or Subscriber) of logged in users. It also comes with two user status based widget areas for displaying content to all logged in users or all logged out users. All user role and status based widget areas can be displayed in any existing sidebar or widget area within your theme.</p>
<h3>Plugin Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>5 User role based widget areas, one for each of the standard WordPress user roles.</li>
<li>2 User status based widget areas, one for logged in users and one for logged out users.</li>
<li>2 Widgets for displaying your new widget areas on the front end (public site).</li>
<li>Additional shortcodes for displaying your user role and user status based widget areas.</li>
<li>The ability to hard code the script into your theme that displays the widget areas on the front end.</li>
<li>Uses standard WordPress <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities" rel="nofollow ugc">Roles and Capabilities</a> functions.</li>
<li>Well documented, lightweight code that is built for speed (the plugin itself is only 11kb).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Rate The Plugin</h3>
<p>If you like this plugin and find it useful please take a moment to <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/user-role-widget-areas#postform" rel="ugc">rate it</a>. Thanks!</p>


Aikon Role Manager vs User Role Widget Areas