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Media Restriction is a lightweight and powerful WordPress plugin that gives site admins full control over media library visibility. Easily restrict access to media files based on user roles, while selectively allowing individual users to bypass these restrictions.
Perfect for multi-author blogs, online course platforms, membership sites, and client-based projects — this plugin ensures that users can only access their own uploads, reducing clutter, confusion, and potential privacy risks.
Whether you’re using default WordPress roles or custom roles created by LMS, membership, or e-commerce plugins — Media Restriction works seamlessly across your site.
<h3>🌟 Features</h3>
✅ Restrict Media Access by User Role 
✅ Exclude Individuals from Restrictions 
✅ Works with Custom User Roles 
✅ Compatible with both grid and list views of the media library 
✅ Compatible with All Plugins 
✅ Clean & Simple Settings Panel
<h3>🧠 Use Cases</h3>
Online Learning Platforms (LMS): 
Prevent instructors from seeing or using each other’s uploaded course files. Allow a few trusted ones full access.
Client Sites & Freelancers: 
Limit clients to only their own media files in multisite or shared admin setups.
Multi-Author Blogs: 
Ensure each contributor only sees their own images and uploads, keeping the media library tidy and secure.
Membership or Community Sites: 
Allow members to upload profile or content images but restrict them from accessing admin uploads.
Agencies & Teams: 
Give your designers/editors restricted media access while allowing managers or team leads full access.

Media Restriction

Restrict media library access based on user roles.

lienann

This plugin allow to set access level value for users and materials and limit 
access to materials of a specific type (posts, pages, custom post types) when 
user access level lower then material access level.
Also this plugin creates a new capabilities:
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<li>dal_admin – capability to change plugin settings</li>
<li>dal_edit – capability to change user access level</li>
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Attention to developers! 
Filters used in this plugin does not work when using get_posts() with 
the parameter ‘suppress_filters’ => true.
Install script don’t assign any values of user access levels and post access levels. 
By default post access level = 100 and user access level = 0 (except Administrator = 100 ). 
By default access to posts is limited in front-end. There is an option 
“Should we apply restrictions in admin console?” in plugin settings to limit access in 
administrator interface too. 
Users can assign records access level equal or lower their own access level.
Languages: English, Русский
I apologize for possible mistakes in plugin translation. 
I will be glad to accept the help with the correct translation of a plugin into 
English and to correction of my mistakes.

Data access levels

Restrict access to posts by user access level.

Media Restriction vs Data access levels