NSquared

TylerDigital

<p>Simple Client Dashboard offers a new “Admin” user role, which fits perfectly between the default WordPress roles for Administrator and Editor access. This allows clients and Webmasters to manage their website content without you having to worry about critical settings or information being removed or adjusted.</p>
<ul>
<li>Preserve your hard work</li>
<li>Avoid unexpected messes and troubleshooting sessions</li>
<li>One-click access restriction</li>
</ul>
<h3>Incorporate Into Your Clients Site with Ease</h3>
<p>Getting started with Simple Client Dashboard is a breeze — unlike other full user-role solutions that eat up your time, this one won’t have you scratching your head or testing endlessly. Simply install this on your client’s site right from the get-go and it’s smooth sailing from there.</p>
<p>There’s little to no setup required, just install Simple Client Dashboard, and you’ll instantly have access to the new “Admin” user role. If you’d like to adjust the “Admin” role, the free plugin offers a clean and tidy interface so that you can make adjustments. And, <a href="https://simpleclientdashboard.com?utm_source=website&utm_medium=promo-link&utm_campaign=wordpress-org&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple Client Dashboard Pro</a>, lets you further customize permissions for more advanced third party plugins.</p>
<h3>Give Clients and Webmasters The Access They Need</h3>
<p>Restrict access to only the features and functions they need to manage their site – without breaking it! Restrict their capabilities and permissions just enough to make sure no unexpected problems arise as they begin working on their website.</p>
<h3>Simple and Clean “Admin” Role Editing Interface</h3>
<p>The Simple Client Dashboard offers a clean and straightforward editing interface for the new “Admin” role. Effortlessly make updates to the permissions and abilities that your clients have on their websites with a few clicks.</p>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rIOTZyhDNo8?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>
<p><strong>Simple Client Dashboard creates a new user role named “Admin”</strong> which is similar to the default “Administrator” role, but with the following changes:</p>
<h3>Hides Non-essential and Troublesome WordPress Dashboard Items</h3>
<ul>
<li>Hide the WordPress Settings menu</li>
<li>Hide the WordPress Plugins menu</li>
<li>Hide the WordPress Tools menu</li>
<li>Hide the WordPress Users menu</li>
<li>Hide the WordPress Appearance > Editor tab</li>
<li>Disable the theme installation button</li>
<li>Disable theme-switching buttons</li>
<li>Disable the WordPress Core Updates button</li>
</ul>
<p>(More options in <a href="https://simpleclientdashboard.com?utm_source=website&utm_medium=promo-link&utm_campaign=wordpress-org&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple Client Dashboard Pro</a>)</p>
<h3>Simple Client Dashboard PRO also provides Third Party Plugin Constraints</h3>
<p>Upgrade to <a href="https://simpleclientdashboard.com?utm_source=website&utm_medium=promo-link&utm_campaign=wordpress-org&utm_content=readme" rel="nofollow ugc">Simple Client Dashboard Pro</a> to get even more control over how the Admin role can interact with popular third party plugins.</p>
<p>Other user role solutions expect you to enter raw code names for permissions or are limited to capabilities that WordPress exposes by default. While Simple Client Dashboard takes it a step further by custom coding beyond standard WordPress permissions.</p>
<ul>
<li>Advanced Custom Fields – Hide ACF menu and settings, including definitions, rules, and fields.</li>
<li>Custom Post Types – Restrict ability to create Custom Post Types.</li>
<li>Contact Form 7 – Restrict the ability to create new forms, delete forms, and edit forms but allow the Admin role to view submissions.</li>
<li>Draw Attention – Restrict ability to add Draw Attention images.</li>
<li>Easy Digital Downloads – Allow the Admin role to manage products, manage customer payments, manage reports & sales data, and/or manage settings</li>
<li>Five Star Business Profile and Scheme – Hide business profile settings.</li>
<li>Gravity Forms – Restrict the ability to create new forms, delete forms, and preview forms. Only allow the Admin role to edit forms and view submissions.</li>
<li>iThemes Security – Hide iThemes security menus and settings.</li>
<li>Jetpack – Hide the Jetpack stats.</li>
<li>LearnDash – Restrict permissions to edit courses, assignments, groups and the group leader.</li>
<li>Ninja Forms – Restrict the ability to import and export forms, manage settings or extensions, and view the system status. Only allow the Admin role to edit forms and view submissions.</li>
<li>Redirection – Remove permission to manage URL redirection settings.</li>
<li>Revolution Slider – Restrict access to the Revolution Slider menu.</li>
<li>Simple Custom CSS – Hide option to add CSS.</li>
<li>SiteGround Optimizer – Hide the Optimizer settings menu.</li>
<li>Sucuri Scanner – Hide security scan information.</li>
<li>TablePress – Hide the TablePress Options screen. Only allow the Admin role to show, edit, import, and export TablePress content.</li>
<li>The Events Calendar – Restrict the Admin role’s ability to manage and delete events, venues, and organizers.</li>
<li>WooCommerce – Hide the settings. Only allow the Admin role to edit & view products, coupons, or orders, allow the Admin role to view reports.</li>
<li>Wordfence – Hide the Wordfence Dashboard Widget</li>
<li>WordPress Plugins – Restrict ability to install, activate, update, edit, and delete plugins.</li>
<li>WordPress Themes – Restrict ability to install, update, switch, edit, or delete themes. Only allow the Admin role to edit theme options such as widgets, menus, and the Customizer.</li>
<li>WP All Import – Remove ability to use WP All Import Settings Menu.</li>
<li>Yoast SEO – Hide Yoast SEO settings menu and hide the SEO meta box when editing pages/posts.</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.7.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>New: Added support for Jetpack Stats</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.7.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>New: Added GoPricing Plugin Support</li>
<li>New: Added Revolution Slider Plugin Support</li>
<li>New: Added Boss Theme Support</li>
<li>New: Added Canvas Theme Support</li>
<li>New: Added Genesis Theme Support</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.6.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixed: members_get_capabilities() conflict with Members plugin</li>
<li>Fixed: CF7 issues with update</li>
<li>Improved: EDD capabilities</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.6.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>New: Added Ninja Forms Plugin Support</li>
<li>New: Added LearnDash Plugin Support</li>
<li>New: Added Envato Toolkit Plugin Support</li>
<li>New: Added CPTUI Plugin Support</li>
<li>New: Added Wordfence Plugin Support</li>
<li>New: Added Google Analytics Plugin by Yoast Support</li>
<li>New: Added Divi Theme Support</li>
<li>New: Added NativeChurch Theme Support</li>
<li>Update: Improved Portuguese Language Support</li>
<li>Fixed: Contact Form 7 Support</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.5.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>New: Added Settings link in plugins list</li>
<li>New: Added Easy Digital Downloads Module</li>
<li>New: Added iThemes Exchange Module</li>
<li>New: Added WooCommerce Module</li>
<li>New: Added Event Espresso Module</li>
<li>New: Added Events Calendar Module</li>
<li>New: Added WP All Import Module</li>
<li>New: Added Siteground SuperCacher Module</li>
<li>New: Theme support for Avian theme</li>
<li>New: Theme support for Cardinal theme</li>
<li>New: Theme support for Ken theme</li>
<li>New: Theme support for Total theme</li>
<li>Update: Improved Gravity Forms Module</li>
<li>Update: Improved i18n</li>
<li>New: Serbian Language Support</li>
<li>New: Portuguese Language Support (PT & BR)</li>
<li>Fix: multisite activation bug with _blogs() function</li>
<li>Fix: Improve Yoast SEO module</li>
<li>Fix: Fatal error with CF7 module</li>
<li>Fix: config array error on Multisite</li>
<li>Fix: removed Administrator from editable roles</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.3.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improved: Show Yoast metabox when editing pages (still hide settings) by default</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.3.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>New: Hide Users menu (often requested, and really the webmaster user couldn’t do much in this screen anyway)</li>
<li>New: Add support for ACF5 (hide Custom Fields Menu compatible with new version)</li>
<li>New: Add support for Contact Form 7</li>
<li>New: Add support for iThemes Security</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.2.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>New: Add support for TablePress [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/]</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.2.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Multisite bugfix: Prevent webmaster from removing users from individual sites</li>
<li>Multisite bugfix: Stop removing Settings & Tools from network administrator</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.1.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>New: Now hides non-essential dashboard items</li>
<li>Fixed: Fixes a conflict with Mizzo theme (thanks djesch)</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.1.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>New: Add support for Sucuri Scanner [https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/]</li>
<li>New: Add support for Advanced Custom Fields [https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/]</li>
<li>New: Remove tools menu – so webmaster users can’t import/export/migrate/find&replace</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.0.9</h3>
<ul>
<li>New: Add support for Ultimate Branding [http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/ultimate-branding/]</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.0.8</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improved: Add Gravity Forms edit_forms capability as an option (only allows entry viewing by default) via filter:<br />
add_filter( ‘td-webmaster-user-roleoption_cap_gravityforms_edit_forms’, __return_true );</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.0.7</h3>
<ul>
<li>New: Remove settings menu from wp-admin</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.0.5</h3>
<ul>
<li>New: Remove capability to delete users</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.0.4</h3>
<ul>
<li>New: Add “editor” cap for role so plugins checking for “editor” explicitly work</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.0.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>New: Remove capabiilty to add, edit, promote users</li>
<li>New: Remove capability to update core</li>
</ul>
<h3>2.1.0.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Initial Release</li>
</ul>


Simple Client Dashboard

Restrict permissions with Simple Client Dashboard. Our new "Admin" user role between Administrator and Editor is perfect for clients and Webmasters.

Freemius

Shois WP

<p><strong>Privex Password Protect – Password Protect Pages, Posts, Categories & Your Entire WordPress Site</strong></p>
<p><strong>Privex Password Protect</strong> is the most powerful and flexible <strong>WordPress password protection plugin</strong> available. Whether you need to <strong>password protect a page</strong>, <strong>lock a WordPress post</strong>, restrict access by user role, or put your entire site behind a password wall – Privex gives you complete, granular control with a modern, beautiful UI.</p>
<p>Forget the limited built-in WordPress password system. Privex replaces it with a professional-grade content protection solution that supports <strong>multiple passwords per page</strong>, <strong>brute-force protection</strong>, <strong>CAPTCHA integration</strong>, <strong>cookie-based sessions</strong>, and stunning <strong>Glassmorphism</strong> password form templates.</p>
<h4>Who Is This Plugin For?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Agencies building <strong>staging sites</strong> or <strong>client preview sites</strong> that need a site-wide password lock</li>
<li>Bloggers and content creators who want to <strong>restrict access to premium posts or pages</strong></li>
<li>WooCommerce store owners who need to <strong>password protect products or shop pages</strong></li>
<li>Membership site owners who want to <strong>lock content by user role</strong></li>
<li>Developers who need a <strong>lightweight, developer-friendly content restriction plugin</strong></li>
</ul>
<h4>Key Features: Password Protect Anything in WordPress</h4>
<p><strong>Per-Page & Per-Post Password Protection</strong><br />
Set individual passwords for any page or post. Create multiple passwords per post – perfect for sharing different access keys with different clients. (Free: up to 5 passwords per post, Unlimited in PRO)</p>
<p><strong>Site-Wide Password Protection (PRO)</strong><br />
Lock your entire WordPress website behind a single global password. Ideal for staging environments, under-construction sites, client demos, and private membership portals.</p>
<p><strong>WooCommerce Product & Shop Protection</strong><br />
Fully compatible with WooCommerce. Password protect specific products, your entire shop page, or complete product categories. Restrict access to exclusive items and ensure only authorized customers can view or purchase them.</p>
<p><strong>Category & Archive Protection (PRO)</strong><br />
Restrict entire WordPress post categories or custom taxonomy archives with a single password. Useful for gating premium content sections on your blog or news site.</p>
<p><strong>Child Page Inheritance</strong><br />
Optionally inherit password protection from parent pages to child pages – no need to set passwords on every sub-page individually.</p>
<p><strong>Custom Post Type Support</strong><br />
Privex works with all registered Custom Post Types (CPTs). Protect portfolios, events, courses, directories, or any content type your theme or plugin creates.</p>
<p><strong>Multiple Passwords per Post</strong><br />
Generate several unique passwords for the same page or post. Each password can have its own label, expiry date, and maximum usage limit – ideal for client management and time-limited access.</p>
<p><strong>Master Password</strong><br />
Set a single master password that unlocks all protected content across your entire site – useful for site owners and administrators.</p>
<p><strong>Admin Auto-Bypass</strong><br />
Logged-in administrators automatically bypass all password locks, allowing seamless content editing and previewing without entering passwords.</p>
<p><strong>Cookie-Based Session Management</strong><br />
Visitors who unlock content are granted a secure cookie-based session so they do not need to re-enter passwords on every page visit. Session duration is fully configurable (persistent or session-only).</p>
<h4>Beautiful Password Form Templates</h4>
<p><strong>Glassmorphism, Minimal, Dark & Custom Templates</strong><br />
Choose from multiple professionally designed password form templates including Glassmorphism, Dark Mode, Minimal, and Minimal Dark. All templates are fully responsive and look stunning on any device or screen size.</p>
<p><strong>AJAX-Powered Instant Unlock</strong><br />
When a visitor enters the correct password, the protected content fades in instantly without any page reload. This delivers a seamless, app-like user experience and avoids caching-related issues.</p>
<p><strong>Custom Template Builder (PRO)</strong><br />
Design your own password form from scratch using a drag-and-drop block editor. Add logo, background, custom colors, typography, animations, and more. Create unlimited custom templates.</p>
<p><strong>Template Customization (Free)</strong><br />
Even without PRO, you can customize accent colors, card background, button style, border radius, and toggle the icon or description text directly from the settings panel.</p>
<h4>Advanced Security Features</h4>
<p><strong>Brute-Force Protection</strong><br />
Built-in rate limiting tracks failed password attempts per IP address. After exceeding the allowed attempts, the IP is temporarily locked out for a configurable number of minutes – protecting your site from automated password-guessing attacks.</p>
<p><strong>CAPTCHA Integration – Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha & Cloudflare Turnstile (PRO)</strong><br />
Optionally require visitors to complete a CAPTCHA challenge before submitting a password. Supports Google reCAPTCHA v2, Google reCAPTCHA v3 (invisible), hCaptcha, and Cloudflare Turnstile – all configurable from the Security settings panel.</p>
<p><strong>IP Whitelisting & Blacklisting (PRO)</strong><br />
Define specific IP addresses or CIDR ranges that should always bypass protection (whitelist) or always be denied access (blacklist). Supports Cloudflare and proxy-forwarded IPs.</p>
<p><strong>Concurrent Session Limits (PRO)</strong><br />
Control how many simultaneous devices or browsers can use the same password at the same time. Automatically invalidate older sessions when the limit is exceeded – preventing password sharing.</p>
<p><strong>User Role-Based Access (PRO)</strong><br />
Grant access to specific WordPress user roles (e.g. Editor, Subscriber, Customer) without requiring them to enter a password at all. Combine role-based access with per-post or global password protection.</p>
<h4>True Privacy & SEO Controls</h4>
<p><strong>Hide Protected Content from WordPress Search</strong><br />
Optionally exclude password-protected posts and pages from WordPress internal search results, so visitors cannot discover protected content through the search bar.</p>
<p><strong>RSS Feed Exclusion</strong><br />
Automatically block password-protected content from appearing in your RSS feed. Subscribers only see content they are authorized to access.</p>
<p><strong>Noindex Meta Tag for Protected Posts</strong><br />
Add <code>noindex, nofollow</code> robots meta tags to protected posts and pages so that search engines like Google do not crawl or index your private content – keeping your sensitive data off search engine results pages (SERPs).</p>
<p><strong>Excerpt & Snippet Hiding</strong><br />
Prevent WordPress from displaying text excerpts or archive snippets of locked content in category pages, tag archives, and post grids – ensuring no content leakage.</p>
<h4>Performance & Compatibility</h4>
<p><strong>Zero Bloat Architecture</strong><br />
Privex loads scripts and stylesheets only on pages where password protection is active. On all other pages, nothing loads. This keeps your site lightweight and fast.</p>
<p><strong>Transient Caching</strong><br />
Access control checks use the WordPress transient API for lightning-fast performance, even on large sites with many protected posts.</p>
<p><strong>Works with Popular Page Builders</strong><br />
Fully compatible with Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Oxygen, Bricks, Visual Composer, and the native WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg).</p>
<p><strong>Caching Plugin Compatible</strong><br />
Designed to work alongside WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, W3 Total Cache, and other popular caching solutions. The AJAX-based unlocking mechanism bypasses cache-related conflicts.</p>
<p><strong>Translation Ready</strong><br />
100% compatible with WPML, Polylang, and Loco Translate. All user-facing strings are internationalized and ready for translation into any language.</p>
<p><strong>Works with Popular Themes</strong><br />
Tested and compatible with Astra, Hello Elementor, OceanWP, GeneratePress, Kadence, and all other standard WordPress themes.</p>
<h4>Use Cases for Privex Password Protect</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Staging & Development Sites:</strong> Put your entire WordPress site behind a password so only your client or team can view it before launch.</li>
<li><strong>Premium Content Gates:</strong> Lock blog posts, tutorials, or resources behind a password and share the key only with paying customers.</li>
<li><strong>Private Membership Areas:</strong> Restrict access to members-only pages without needing a full membership plugin.</li>
<li><strong>Client Portals:</strong> Create individual password-protected pages for each client with unique access keys.</li>
<li><strong>Restricted WooCommerce Products:</strong> Hide products from the public and share a password-protected link only with specific buyers.</li>
<li><strong>Internal Team Resources:</strong> Protect internal documentation, onboarding pages, or HR resources from the general public.</li>
<li><strong>Under Construction Pages:</strong> Keep your redesigned website hidden from the public with a site-wide password lock until you are ready to launch.</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin optionally connects to third-party CAPTCHA services to protect password forms from automated bot attacks. These services are only used when the site administrator explicitly enables and configures them in the plugin settings (Pass Protect -> Security -> CAPTCHA Integration). No data is sent to any external service unless the administrator actively chooses a CAPTCHA provider and enters valid API keys.</p>
<h4>Google reCAPTCHA (v2 and v3)</h4>
<p>When Google reCAPTCHA is selected as the CAPTCHA provider, this plugin loads the reCAPTCHA JavaScript library from Google’s servers on frontend password-protected pages. Upon form submission, the CAPTCHA response token is sent to Google’s verification API along with your site’s secret key and the visitor’s IP address for validation.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Service provider:</strong> Google LLC</li>
<li><strong>What data is sent:</strong> CAPTCHA response token, site secret key, visitor IP address</li>
<li><strong>When data is sent:</strong> Each time a visitor submits a password form on a protected page (only when reCAPTCHA is enabled)</li>
<li><strong>Service terms of use:</strong> <a href="https://policies.google.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">https://policies.google.com/terms</a></li>
<li><strong>Privacy policy:</strong> <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">https://policies.google.com/privacy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>hCaptcha</h4>
<p>When hCaptcha is selected as the CAPTCHA provider, this plugin loads the hCaptcha JavaScript library from hCaptcha’s servers on frontend password-protected pages. Upon form submission, the CAPTCHA response token is sent to hCaptcha’s verification API along with your site’s secret key for validation.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Service provider:</strong> Intuition Machines, Inc.</li>
<li><strong>What data is sent:</strong> CAPTCHA response token, site secret key</li>
<li><strong>When data is sent:</strong> Each time a visitor submits a password form on a protected page (only when hCaptcha is enabled)</li>
<li><strong>Service terms of use:</strong> <a href="https://www.hcaptcha.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.hcaptcha.com/terms</a></li>
<li><strong>Privacy policy:</strong> <a href="https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Cloudflare Turnstile</h4>
<p>When Cloudflare Turnstile is selected as the CAPTCHA provider, this plugin loads the Turnstile JavaScript library from Cloudflare’s servers on frontend password-protected pages. Upon form submission, the CAPTCHA response token is sent to Cloudflare’s verification API along with your site’s secret key and the visitor’s IP address for validation.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Service provider:</strong> Cloudflare, Inc.</li>
<li><strong>What data is sent:</strong> CAPTCHA response token, site secret key, visitor IP address</li>
<li><strong>When data is sent:</strong> Each time a visitor submits a password form on a protected page (only when Turnstile is enabled)</li>
<li><strong>Service terms of use:</strong> <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/</a></li>
<li><strong>Privacy policy:</strong> <a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Developer Instructions</h3>
<p>This plugin does not use any build tools. All source code is provided as-is. No compilation or bundling is required.</p>


Privex Password Protect – Lock Pages, Posts & Categories

Password protect pages, posts, categories, and your entire WordPress site. Restrict access with multiple passwords, user roles, CAPTCHA, and brute-for …

Simple Client Dashboard vs Privex Password Protect – Lock Pages, Posts & Categories