Wordpress “Role Manager” Plugin
August 1st, 2007
Written By: Adam Sussman
With Wordpress we can extend roles and capabilities to selected users. This feature of WP is highly useful when you have multiple people managing your Blog for you.
Summary of Roles
- Administrator - Somebody who has access to all the administration features
- Editor - Somebody who can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts, etc.
- Author - Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts
- Contributor - Somebody who can write and manage their posts but not publish posts
- Subscriber - Somebody who can read comments/comment/receive news letters, etc.
Unfortunately I have come across a situation where there is one of two features of one role that are needed but I really want to limit any extended privileges.
Such is the case where I want a user to have the ability to add / post and edit as well as be a moderator for all comments. The role of an Author fills almost all my needs but lacks the moderation ability. You have to have higher permissions to Moderate.
Now I could easily set the user to the role of an Editor but when doing so we found out this enables access to few custom plugin’s that are critical to the site. Although we could train the user to not touch that area it is highly preferred we limit access to it all together.
After doing a quick search I have found Role Manager which allows me to customize each role using a graphical interface. In just a few seconds after installing the Plug-in I was able to enable the Moderate Comments Permission in the Authors Role.
If you are running a Blog where multiple users log in, I would recommend installing this plug-in. It really gives you the ability to administrate what your users can and can not do.
May 25th, 2008 22:26
Where is the plugin? You talk about it but I don’t see it. Sounds cool
June 13th, 2008 16:51
Sounds like an awesome plugin Adam. I’m always looking for new plugins and this could definitely help on a couple of my sites. I always feel weird giving someone too many privileges. This sounds perfect.
June 29th, 2008 08:50
Role Manager works great. We share blogs and this software allows all to wor together.
July 20th, 2008 12:37
Any know where we can download the plugin?
September 9th, 2008 09:05
Role Manager works very good. Just the way I want. THANKS!!
October 2nd, 2008 17:14
This plugin does not exist, there are no links to it anywhere, not even the Wordpress plugin repository. Is there any development for it?
October 3rd, 2008 09:32
http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wordpress-plugins/role-manager/