User Role Editor Pro

User Role Editor Pro is a premium extension for WordPress developed by Vladimir Garagulia that allows you to manage user roles and capabilities with surgical precision within any website. It is designed for administrators who need to control exactly what each profile can see and do in the admin panel, without touching a single line of code.

The plugin starts from a solid foundation: it allows you to edit any existing role, create new roles from scratch or by copying an already configured one, assign individual capabilities to specific users, and even grant multiple roles to the same user. But the Pro version goes much further with advanced modules that turn permission management into a visual and intuitive task.

Among its most notable features are blocking admin menu items by role, hiding front-end menus based on visitor type, restricting widgets and meta boxes on the dashboard, and controlling access to other roles to prevent a manager from promoting users to administrator. It also includes a role export and import module, making it easy to replicate configurations between sites or in multisite networks.

For sites with complex editorial content, it offers editing restrictions by post, category, author, or custom post type, as well as access control to Gravity Forms by ID list. The plugin access module allows you to decide which roles can activate, deactivate, or configure each installed extension, and the admin page permissions viewer shows on each backend screen which capabilities are being checked.

In multisite environments, management is centralized from the network administrator: you can replicate roles to all subsites with a single click, synchronize users and permissions, and limit which themes administrators of each individual site can activate.

With more than 700,000 active installations of its free version and over a decade of continuous development, User Role Editor Pro has established itself as the reference tool for agencies, editorial teams, and companies that need granular and reliable control over user permissions in WordPress.