The permissions plugin for posts, pages, categories, tags and more. You can control permissions for roles, individual users, and even custom groups.
As of April 2026, PublishPress Permissions: Control User Access for Posts, Pages, Categories, Tags is a WordPress access plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 64 reviews. It has been downloaded 821K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 7.2.5+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 43% this week. Support resolution rate: 80%. Top alternative: Loginizer.
PublishPress Permissions allows you to enable or deny access to posts, pages, categories, tags and more. You can apply these permissions for user roles, individual users, and even custom groups.
With PublishPress Permissions, you can control who can view and edit your WordPress content. You can choose who can access images and files in your site’s Media Library. For example, you can deny all direct access to files for logged out users.
The Pro version of PublishPress Permissions has many advanced features such as teaser previews of restricted content, custom WordPress statuses, and automatically creating personal posts for users.
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This suite of products is incredibly robust and therefore understandably complex. I’ve used it on many sites. Recently, we had a particularly complicated setup and support worked with me patiently and tirelessly, even over the winter holidays, to help resolve it. There is always a way, and if you can’t find it, they can.
Hi there,
I has been a while since the update but it seems that this plugin has not been tested with the latest version of WordPress (v6.9).
This notification keep appearing on the plugin’s detail page:
Warning: This plugin has not been tested with your current version of WordPress.
Is it safe or not to update this plugin?
Great plugin
I am using Publishpress Permissions on my site. The plugin is reliable and very easy to manage. And the Support team do their best to answer my questions in a reasonable timeframe.
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2.5+ required |
The full changelog can be found on GitHub.
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