Wordpress Admins or Roles per Page

Question

I would like to define an admin that has Administrator rights to everything - thats of course possible, its the default functionality. then i would also like to create an admin (or role) that can only edit and see certain PAGES in the backend. i have gone through many plugins but i can't seem to find this functionality anywhere! any ideas? thanks! mark

Answer 1

I recommend 2 plugins:

• User Role Editor: This plugin allows you create new roles and adjust their capabilities.
• Hide Admin Menu: This plugin allows you hide menu items based on user role. You just need to select which menu items will be hidden for curtain roles.

Answer 2

I haven't seen any plugin that can do what you want.

You didn't cited any programming possibility, but if you want to scratch a plugin to do this exactly as you want, you might look at the user levels and admin hooks. Starting from there, you'll have to apply rules and modify the admin query for getting pages.

Perhaps, maybe the built-in user permissions (author and editor) can already do that, as authors can't edit things created by other users.

Hope it helps... somehow.

Answer 3

Try using http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/ its a great plugin I use on all the sites I do. You can leave admin as default but specify exactly what you want and dont want all other users to see. So you can hide everything but the pages section for all editors if you wanted.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Role Scoper (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/role-scoper/) is another option.

You can set permissions on a page or post basis, if you like. It is something I am looking into using for some of our forms. Has anyone compared it with adminimize and other similar plugins?