Access Areas for WordPress
Fine tuning access to your posts.
4.5(17 reviews)
·400 active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, Access Areas for WordPress is a WordPress role plugin with 400 active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 17 reviews. It has been downloaded 32K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Top alternative: User Role Editor.
4.5/517 reviews
400active installs
32K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
WP Access Areas lets you fine-tune who may read, edit or comment on your Blog posts.
You can either restrict access to logged-in uses only, certain WordPress-Roles or even custom Access Areas.
Features
- Define custom Access Areas and assign them to your blog-users
- Restrict reading, editing and commenting permission to logged-in users, certain WordPress-Roles or Access Areas
- define global access areas on a network
- Supports bulk editing
- German, Italian, Polish and Swedish localization (Huge Thankyou @ all translators!)
Known Issues
- WordPress calendar Widget still shows dates where restricted posts have been created.
When clicked on such a date a 404 will occur. There is an open WordPress Core ticket on that issue. - Taxonomy menus (e.g. Tags / Categories) also count restricted posts when th…
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Ratings & Reviews
4.517 reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.5.22
- Fix: _load_textdomain_just_in_time warning
Contributors
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