Title: ATD Custom Role & Access Control
Author: atdsoftlabs
Published: <strong>July 23, 2026</strong>
Last modified: July 23, 2026

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# ATD Custom Role & Access Control

 By [atdsoftlabs](https://profiles.wordpress.org/atdsoftlabs/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/atd-custom-role-access-control.1.0.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/atd-custom-role-access-control/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/atd-custom-role-access-control/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/atd-custom-role-access-control/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/atd-custom-role-access-control/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/atd-custom-role-access-control/)

## Description

**ATD Custom Role & Access Control** gives you complete control over your WordPress
user roles and admin dashboard permissions. Create tailored user roles with precise
capabilities and restrict access to specific plugins, core features, and appearance
settings.

### 🌟 Key Features:

 * **Tabbed Admin UI:** Clean and intuitive interface with iOS-style toggle switches.
 * **Granular Role Controls:** Easily manage permissions for Posts, Pages, Media,
   and Users.
 * **Plugin Access Restrictor:** Grant or revoke access to specific active plugins
   per user role.
 * **Appearance Submenu Controls:** Toggle access to Themes, Customizer, Widgets,
   Menus, and Theme Editor independently.
 * **Core Access Filtering:** Hide sensitive WordPress tools and settings menus 
   based on capabilities.
 * **Instant Role Search & Filter:** Quickly find active plugins with built-in search.

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## Installation

 1. Upload the `atd-custom-role-access-control` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/`
    directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the **Plugins** menu in WordPress.
 3. Navigate to **Custom Roles** in the WordPress admin sidebar to manage user permissions.

## FAQ

### Does this plugin modify core WordPress roles?

No, it only manages custom roles created through the plugin to keep your site safe.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“ATD Custom Role & Access Control” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ atdsoftlabs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/atdsoftlabs/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/atd-custom-role-access-control/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/atd-custom-role-access-control/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/atd-custom-role-access-control/)
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## Changelog

#### 1.0.2

 * Refactored form submission handling to execute on early action hooks (`admin_init`).
 * Replaced inline JS redirects with native WordPress safe redirection (`wp_safe_redirect`).
 * Fixed WPCS security errors including output escaping (`esc_html`, `esc_attr`,`
   esc_url`).
 * Applied strict input sanitization with `wp_unslash()` for nonce and superglobal
   checks.

#### 1.0.1

 * Fixed plugin slug references and URI mismatches.
 * Updated theme capability handlers for Customizer and Menus.

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.2**
 *  Last updated **2 days ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.0.2**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [admin menu hide](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin-menu-hide/)[custom roles](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-roles/)
   [role manager](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/role-manager/)[user role editor](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/user-role-editor/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/atd-custom-role-access-control/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ atdsoftlabs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/atdsoftlabs/)

## Support

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