Readministrator (Read Only Administrator)
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A read-only administrator role — users can view the entire wp-admin like an admin but cannot change anything.
Readministrator adds a "Read Only Administrator" role. Assign it to a user and they can browse the entire wp-admin like an administrator — Settings, Users, Plugins, Themes, content, comments and more — but they cannot change anything. Every write is blocked at the capability layer.
What read-only administrators can do:
- View every admin screen an administrator can see.
- Browse Settings, Tools, Users, Plugins, Themes and content lists.
- Run a read-only export.
What they cannot do:
- Save any Settings page (core or plugin Settings API).
- Create, edit, publish, trash or delete posts, pages or media.
- Add, edit, delete or promote users (including editing their own profile).
- Activate, deactivate, install, update, delete or edit plugins.
- Switch, install, update, delete or edit themes.
- Edit menus, widgets or the Customizer.
- Moderate or edit comments.
- Make changes through the REST API (the block editor included).
Known limitations
Enforcement covers core write paths plus the REST API. A small residual surface remains: some third-party plugins that perform writes through their own custom admin-ajax/admin-post handlers, and Network Admin (multisite) screens, are not yet covered. These are on the roadmap.
