Hide AMP in side bar for specific roles (authors)

@anne020 While there is no option from within the plugin you can use a plugin such as “user role editor“. There is an option also using that plugin to “hide admin bar”.

Alternatively you can use a function like the below (added to your active themes functions.php file). You’ll need to change the contributor to whatever user group you choose.

add_action('admin_init', 'my_filter_the_plugins');    
function my_filter_the_plugins()
{
    global $current_user;
    if (in_array('contributor', $current_user->roles)) {
        deactivate_plugins( // deactivate for media_manager
            array(
                '/amp/amp.php'
            ),
            true, // silent mode (no deactivation hooks fired)
            false // network wide
        );
    } else { // activate for those than can use it
        activate_plugins(
            array(
                '/amp/amp.php'
            ),
            '', // redirect url, does not matter (default is '')
            false, // network wise
            true // silent mode (no activation hooks fired)
        );
    }
}