• I used a different paid plugin to manage site roles that failed to provide the results I wanted. This plugin was recommended by Gravity Forms to control role access to their PI. It took me about an hour to install and set up, and gave me about 90 – 95% of what I tried to achieve with the paid plugin.

    Refer to ‘Roles and Capabilities’ in the WP codex to learn how they’re structured in WP. The Codex documentation lists the functions assigned to each role in a handy table. This plugin follows that documentation exactly, and provides administrator’s with the means to grant or deny access to each function listed in the Codex.

    The user interface is easy and intuitive to follow. Props to Justin for the improvements.

    A note to users of the Genesis framework. If you grant users permission to ‘manage_options’, the Genesis parent theme and child theme will appear in the WP Admin menu. Haven’t figured out yet how to block access to the parent theme settings. That will come later with further research.

    The plugin also does not currently provide granular control over which widgets are accessible to users at the Editor level and below. If users are granted permission to ‘manage_options’, then all widgets will be accessible on the site.

    I highly recommend this plugin to anyone who needs to set up and manage user roles on their site.

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