Justin Fletcher

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<p>‘User Upgrade Capability’ is a plugin to help with a multi-site network and helps with the administration of users and their roles. When you start using a multi-site WordPress installation you soon realise the power of having the ability to use a separate site for different functions (e.g. main site, separate blog, separate calendar …etc) each can then be handled separately and even with different themes.</p>
<p>However, without ‘User Upgrade Capabilities’ you would need to maintain the user access on each site, this is an overhead for administrators since for each site Admins will need to grant access and add/remove capabilties & roles as required, which all takes time.  ‘User Upgrade Capability’ helps with this admin task and allows you to create a new site and point back to a master reference site re-using its user listing and capabilties/roles to define access permissions for the new linked site.</p>
<p>One example of where this approach is helpful is for the case where you want multiple calendars for different purposes on the same WordPress site.  Calendar plugins generally use a fixed database table name, this means that you can’t install two calendars on the same site.  With ‘User Upgrade Capability’ you can create a new site for each calendar and point back to the reference site re-using its user base and capabilties.  The end user doesn’t even know that the calendars are on a different site.</p>
<h4>Plugin site</h4>
<p>read more on the <a href="http://justinandco.com/plugins/user-upgrade-capabilities/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin site</a></p>
<h4>GitHub</h4>
<p>https://github.com/justinticktock/user-upgrade-capability</p>
<h4>WARNING</h4>
<p>Activating this plugin on a site will replace the available user roles/capabilities with a copy from the reference site you will not be able to undo.</p>
<p>Translation:</p>
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<li>English</li>
<li>Serbo-Croatian, sr_RS ( props Borisa Djuraskovic <a href="http://webhostinghub.com" rel="nofollow ugc">webhostinghub.com</a> )</li>
</ul>
<p>Extensions:</p>
<p>If you select the options for extending functionality through other plugins the following are available for ease of installing..</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/" rel="ugc">User Role Editor</a> for Admins to control user access/capability.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/blog-copier/" rel="ugc">Blog Copier</a> for ease of duplicating sites.</li>
</ul>


User Upgrade Capability

Great plugin. Simple, but effective. Thank you.

Simple, but effective

Link multiple network sites/blogs together - Maintain only one site list of users.

WPRuby

Waseem Senjer

<p>Give a temporary limited admin. access to themes designers, plugins developers and support agents.</p>
<p>The plugin is simple and clean, it helps the administrator to create a user with a temporary access and choose which pages in your admin area which you don’t want the user to access. send the details to the user and when he finished his task, you can easily deactivate the account and activate it later.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpruby.com/plugin/controlled-admin-access-pro?utm_source=lite&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=freetopro" title="Upgrade to Controlled Admin Access Pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to Pro Now</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wpruby.com/knowledgebase_category/controlled-admin-access-pro/" title="Documentation " rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Features</h3>
<h3>Menu Filter</h3>
<p>The plugin will allow you to select admin menu items that you want to restrict for the created admin. Not only the plugin will hide the menu item from the admin but it also will block the page if they access it in some other way.</p>
<h3>Expiration Time</h3>
<p>You may don’t want to give access indefinitely, the plugin allows you to set an expiration time for the restricted admin account. After the account expires, the account will no longer be able to login into the admin dashboard. Moreover, you can always extend the expiry time or change it.</p>
<h3>Hide Admin Bar</h3>
<p>WordPress offers an admin bar to provide quick access to some pages or to perform some actions. Using the plugin, you can hide the admin bar links at the top of the page will be hidden in both the frontend and admin areas.</p>
<h3>Disable Access</h3>
<p>You can always disable the restricted admin account at any time. For example, if you gave a developer access to fix a bug or install a theme, when they finish the task you can disable their account. This will block login in using the account but it will retain the account’s information in case you wanted to give them access in the future.</p>
<h3>Pro Features</h3>
<h3>Plugins Internal Pages</h3>
<p>Take more control and restrict access to plugins’ internal pages. For example, you would like to give access to the WooCommerce Settings page, but you do not want the account to see the Payments Gateways tab. Currently, the plugin supports WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads and BuddyPress. In the future, we will add support for more plugins.</p>
<h3>No Password Login</h3>
<p>Add some convenience when sending access to the user, you can generate a secure login URL for the user, and the user will use the link to login into the dashboard without the need for a password. You can also disable login by a password for restricted admins, this will restrict the admin from login in using a password or sending a reset password email.</p>
<h3>Activity Log</h3>
<p>Keep track of what restricted admins have done while logged in, the plugin will log more than 20 actions such as activating/deactivating/deleting a plugin, switching a theme, deleting a theme, exporting data, publishing/deleting a post and uploading a file.</p>
<h3>Remote Logout</h3>
<p>At any given time, you can force logging out any restricted admin if you no longer need them logged in the admin dashboard. This action will log them out on all logged-in devices and locations.</p>


Controlled Admin Access

Controlled Admin Access is an excellent plugin. Just keep in mind that the access you need to provide is still controlled by WP user controls.
Ex: CF7 forms need admin access by WP. If the new user is not given admin access at WP level, the Controlled Admin Access can not provide the access. 
Have tried with different WP and CAS levels and found this behaviour. Nevertheless, the controls are very good and useful. Flip side "could be" a WP admin access has to be given and CAS filters access.

Excellent plugin

Give a temporarily limited admin access to themes designers, plugins developers and support agents.

User Upgrade Capability vs Controlled Admin Access