qaiyo

Qaiyo Access Manager extends WordPress’s built-in permission system. Out of the box, WordPress only lets you assign broad roles (editor, author, contributor…). This plugin lets administrators set fine-grained access rules for individual plugins and custom post types, at both the role level and the individual user level — without writing code or touching <code>functions.php</code>.
Hide WooCommerce from editors, give a single freelancer access to one custom post type, stop contributors from seeing a page builder, redirect each role to its own landing page after login, or protect a block of content on the front end with a shortcode. Administrators always keep full access and can never be locked out.
Plugin & content access
<ul>
<li>Plugin-level access control — Decide which roles can see and manage each installed plugin. The plugin is hidden from the Plugins screen, its action links are removed, and its admin menu pages are removed and blocked (including direct-URL access) for restricted roles. This governs visibility and admin access; it is not a substitute for a plugin’s own internal capability checks.</li>
<li>Custom post type access control — Restrict any custom post type (WooCommerce Products, ACF field groups, portfolios, events…) per role, across the admin menu, list/edit queries, single front-end views (with a configurable redirect) and the core REST API. Content types registered with their own capabilities are also enforced at the capability level, so guests and unauthorised roles are blocked, not just hidden.</li>
<li>Allow / Deny mode per rule — Each rule can either allow only the checked roles, or deny the checked roles and leave everyone else untouched — whichever needs fewer clicks.</li>
<li>User-level overrides — Allow or deny a specific user regardless of their role. User rules always win over role rules.</li>
<li>Access Matrix — A bird’s-eye grid of every plugin and post type against every role, so you can audit your whole site at a glance.</li>
<li>Native capability hints — Next to each plugin and post type, see which roles already hold the relevant WordPress capabilities, so your rules and core roles never silently conflict.</li>
</ul>
Roles, login & front end
<ul>
<li>Login redirect by role — Send each role to its own URL right after login.</li>
<li>Restricted content redirect — Choose where logged-in users land when they open a single item of a content type they cannot access (home, 404, login or a custom URL).</li>
<li>Frontend protection shortcode — <code>[qaiyo_protect role="editor" deny="subscriber" logged_in="yes" cap="edit_posts"]…[/qaiyo_protect]</code> shows or hides content by role, login state or capability, with an optional replacement message.</li>
<li>Customizable restricted notice — Pick the style (info / warning / error / none) and text shown to restricted users, with <code>{user_name}</code>, <code>{site_name}</code> and <code>{admin_email}</code> placeholders.</li>
</ul>
Admin experience
<ul>
<li>Capabilities inspector — A read-only, searchable capability × role matrix that flags core vs plugin capabilities. It never changes your roles — it just shows you what they already hold.</li>
<li>Dashboard summary widget — A WordPress Dashboard widget showing how many plugins and post types are restricted and how many user-level overrides are active, for an at-a-glance health check.</li>
<li>Hide the admin bar — Remove the frontend toolbar for selected roles.</li>
<li>Hide individual admin bar items — Strip specific nodes from the top toolbar per role.</li>
<li>Hide dashboard widgets — Remove dashboard widgets per role.</li>
<li>Update permissions — Let non-admin roles update plugins and/or themes without granting full administrator access (applied at runtime, fully reversible).</li>
<li>JSON import / export — Back up every rule to a JSON file, or migrate your whole configuration to another site.</li>
<li>Explore Qaiyo plugins — An in-admin overview of the Qaiyo plugin family, with a notice on your Qaiyo screens when a newer version of an installed Qaiyo plugin is available.</li>
</ul>
Built for the real world
<ul>
<li>Administrators are protected — Anyone with <code>manage_options</code> always has full access and cannot be restricted.</li>
<li>AJAX save — Rules are saved without a page reload.</li>
<li>Translation ready — Ships with 11 languages: English, Hungarian, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Turkish and Polish.</li>
<li>Translation-plugin compatible — Plays nicely with WPML, Polylang and TranslatePress; internal translation post types are excluded automatically.</li>
<li>WordPress standards — Nonce verification, capability checks, sanitized input and escaped output throughout.</li>
</ul>
Looking for more? Qaiyo Access Manager Pro adds an editable click-to-toggle matrix, rule presets, user groups, bulk actions, temporary (time-limited) access, an activity log, admin page hiding, meta box control and email notifications.

Qaiyo Access Manager

Control which plugins and post types each role or user can access, with allow/deny rules, per-user overrides and a frontend shortcode.

Blair Williams

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Members is a roles and capabilities based WordPress membership plugin. It gives your users the ultimate member experience by giving you powerful tools to add roles and capabilities and assign them to your users.
Members allows you to set permissions to restrict content on your site by providing a simple user interface (UI) for WordPress’ powerful roles and capabilities system, which has traditionally only been available to developers who know how to code this by hand.
<h3>Plugin Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Role Editor: Allows you to edit, create, and delete roles as well as capabilities for these roles.</li>
<li>Multiple User Roles: Give one, two, or even more roles to any user.</li>
<li>Explicitly Deny Capabilities: Deny specific capabilities to specific user roles.</li>
<li>Clone Roles: Build a new role by cloning an existing role.</li>
<li>Role Import / Export: Export all roles and Members settings to a JSON file, export selected roles from the roles table, and preview imported roles before choosing whether to import, skip, overwrite, or rename each one.</li>
<li>Content Permissions / Restricted Content: Protect content to determine which users (by role) have access to post content.</li>
<li>Shortcodes: Shortcodes to control who has access to content.</li>
<li>Widgets: A login form widget and users widget to show in your theme’s sidebars.</li>
<li>Private Site: You can make your site and its feed completely private if you want.</li>
<li>Administrator Rescue (Magic Link): If you lose access to the WordPress admin (e.g. after editing roles), you can request a secure, time-limited link by email to restore your Administrator role and Members capabilities—no support ticket or database access required.</li>
<li>Plugin Integration: Members is highly recommended by other WordPress developers. Many existing plugins integrate their custom roles and capabilities directly into it.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Seamless MemberPress Integration</h4>
If you’re looking to build a business out of your membership site by creating paid memberships there’s no better way than to <a href="https://memberpress.com/plans/pricing/?utm_source=members_plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme&utm_content=integration_1" rel="nofollow ugc">use MemberPress</a>. Members and <a href="https://memberpress.com/plans/pricing/?utm_source=members_plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme&utm_content=integration_2" rel="nofollow ugc">MemberPress</a> work together to provide the ultimate member experience and will help you start and profit from your amazing WordPress membership sites!
<h4>All Add-ons are now included</h4>
Members now includes ALL of it’s add-ons completely free of charge! Here are some of the awesome features they add to Members:
<ul>
<li>Block Permissions: Allows site owners to hide or show blocks based on user logged-in status, user role, or capability.</li>
<li>Privacy Caps: Creates additional capabilities for control over WordPressâ€™ privacy and personal data features (GDPR).</li>
<li>Admin Access: Allows site administrators to control which users have access to the WordPress admin via role.</li>
<li>Core Create Caps: Adds the create_posts and create_pages caps to posts/pages to separate them from their edit_* counterparts, providing more flexible editing capabilities.</li>
<li>Categories and Tag Caps: The Category and Tag Caps add-on creates custom capabilities for the core category and post tag taxonomies. This allows site owners to have precise control over who can manage, edit, delete, or assign categories/tags.</li>
<li>Role Levels: Exposes the old user levels system, which fixes the WordPress author drop-down bug when users don’t have a role with one of the assigned levels.</li>
<li>Role Hierarchy: Creates a hierarchical roles system.</li>
<li>ACF Integration: Creates custom capabilities for the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin for managing with the Members plugin.</li>
<li>EDD Integration: Integrates the Easy Digital Downloads plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager.</li>
<li>GiveWP Integration: Integrates the GiveWP and GiveWP Recurring Donations plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager.</li>
<li>Meta Box Integration: Integrates the Meta Box plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager.</li>
<li>WooCommerce Integration: Integrates the WooCommerce plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager.</li>
</ul>
For more info, visit the <a href="https://members-plugin.com/?utm_source=members_plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme&utm_content=learn_more" rel="nofollow ugc">Members plugin home page</a>.
<h3>Like this plugin?</h3>
The Members plugin is a massive project with 1,000s of lines of code to maintain. A major update can take weeks or months of work. We don’t make any money directly from this plugin while other, similar plugins charge substantial fees to even download them or get updates. Please consider helping the cause by:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://memberpress.com/?utm_source=members_plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme&utm_content=memberpress_upgrade" rel="nofollow ugc">Adding MemberPress</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/members/reviews/?filter=5#new-post" rel="ugc">Rating the plugin</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<a href="https://members-plugin.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read the full documentation</a>
<h3>Support</h3>
If you need plugin support from us, you can <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/members/" rel="ugc">visit our support page</a>.
<h3>Plugin Development</h3>
If you’re a theme author, plugin author, or just a code hobbyist, you can follow the development of this plugin on it’s <a href="https://github.com/caseproof/members" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.

Members – Membership & User Role Editor Plugin

Works fine and helped me a lot. 

Of course it can be improved, I'd suggest some checkbox to choose all options with one click. 

Cheers, 
keep the great job.

Great plugin


Easy to configure, simple to use, does the job it's supposed to do. Thank you!


Works great!

The best WordPress Plugin to manage user roles

Easy to Use

Excellent plugin


This is exactly what I needed! Works great!



This is the easiest way to add capabilities to existing roles but beware. If you start experimenting with adding a lot of capabilities to a role and forget which capabilities you added, there is no easy way (at least that I have found) for reverting the capabilities back to the way you found them. Even disabling the plugin or uninstalling it will not do the trick. A Revert button would be an awesome addition!



Also, though it says it supports multisite (WPMU / Network) sites, I cannot see how it works. It does not show a superadmin user. Nothing I have tried in terms of removing permissions does anything in the administrator role, which I assume is not superadministrator. There is no documentation on this so I am looking for another solution on multisite.


Really Awesome, but beware

The best WordPress membership and user role editor plugin. User Roles & Capabilities editor helps you restrict content in just a few clicks.

Qaiyo Access Manager vs Members – Membership & User Role Editor Plugin