jeremyHixon

WP Admin Menu creates a convenient copy of the Administration menu of your site at the top of every page in your WordPress installation. It is intended to create a more convenient means of navigating your administration options from any point in your website. It uses AJAX to fetch a copy of the administration menu of your website and formats it to fit along the top of your website.
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<li>Tested and working in most modern browsers including Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE8 on WordPress 2.9.2 & 3.0.3.</li>
<li>Update notification for out of date browsers.</li>
<li>Shows pending updates for “Comments” and “Plugins”.</li>
<li>Updates itself to match whatever plugins you have active.</li>
<li>Provides you with a convenient “Edit” button on posts and pages for those who don’t have them in their themes.</li>
<li>Can suppress the default WordPress administration menu as well as the admin bar introduced in v3.1</li>
<li>Supports administrators, editors, authors and contributors.</li>
<li>Can be hidden on the front end.</li>
<li>Links to development pages on WordPress can be hidden.</li>
<li>In theory, the plugin should copy whatever is located in your administration menu. That being said it should automatically be “internationalized”. If your administration menu is in the correct language this plugin should also reflect the correct language.</li>
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Information on this plugin can also be found on my site. <a href="http://jeremyhixon.com/" title="User Experience Designer and Developer :: Jeremy Hixon" rel="nofollow ugc">Jeremy Hixon</a>

WP Admin Menu

A convenient method for navigating into administration from any place in your site. Page, post, archive or otherwise.

TrustedLogin

The easiest and safest way to restrict access to your WordPress site’s Dashboard and administrative menus. Remove Dashboard Access is a lightweight plugin that automatically redirects users who shouldn’t have access to the Dashboard to a custom URL of your choosing. Redirects can also be configured on a per-role/per-capability basis, allowing you to keep certain users out of the Dashboard, while retaining access for others.
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<li>Limit Dashboard access to user roles:
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<li>Admins only</li>
<li>Admins + editors</li>
<li>Admins, editors, and authors</li>
<li>or restrict by specific user capability</li>
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<li>Choose your own redirect URL</li>
<li>Optionally allow users to edit their profiles</li>
<li>Display a message on the login screen so users know why they’re being redirected</li>
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Blocking access to the Dashboard is a great way to prevent clients from breaking their sites, prevent users from seeing things they shouldn’t, and to keep your site’s backend more secure.
Allow only users with roles or capabilities:
You can restrict Dashboard access to Admins only, Editors or above, Authors or above, or by selecting a specific user capability.
Grant access to user profiles:
Optionally allow all users the ability to edit their profiles in the Dashboard. Users lacking the chosen capability won’t be able to access any other sections of the Dashboard.
Show a custom login message:
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<li>Supply a message to display on the login screen. Leaving this blank disables the message.</li>
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Remove Dashboard Access

This plugin is a must-have when working with public roles.

A must-have!

Disable Dashboard access for users of a specific role or capability. Disallowed users are redirected to a chosen URL. Get set up in seconds.

WP Admin Menu vs Remove Dashboard Access