Title: Proper plugin screen access
Last modified: August 20, 2016

---

# Proper plugin screen access

 *  [joemerchant2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joemerchant2/)
 * (@joemerchant2)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-plugin-screen-access/)
 * I’m writing a plugin that has submenus in the dashboard;
    Plugin Name – Plugin
   Dashboard – plugin options – plugin do something – plugin do something else.
 * In coding the menu items above, I limit whether or not the subpages are viewable
   or not by using the capability option in the add_submenu_page() function. So 
   far so good.
 * In the code for those sub-pages, is it good practice to add a is_user_logged_in()
   check? Also, should I then go ahead and check the user has the correct access?
 * As a person can type in a page address directly in the URL bar, I want to make
   sure I’m securing my plugin pages properly without doing anything that’s not 
   necessary.

The topic ‘Proper plugin screen access’ is closed to new replies.

 * 0 replies
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [joemerchant2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joemerchant2/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/proper-plugin-screen-access/)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics