RoleArchitect – Role & Permission Manager
RoleArchitect is a professional WordPress plugin that gives you complete architectural control over user roles and permissions. Like an architect designs buildings with precision, RoleArchitect lets you design and build your site’s access control system with expert-level tools and capabilities.
Core Features
- Role Management: Edit WordPress default roles (Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, Subscriber)
- Capability Management: Manage all WordPress and WooCommerce capabilities for default roles
- User Assignment: Assign roles to users (single role per user)
- User Management: Search and manage users by username, display name, or email
- Content Restriction (Posts): Use [ROAR_restrict] shortcode to restrict post content by role
- Post Restriction: Bulk and individual post restriction via UI
- Default Role Setting: Set default role for new user registrations
- Security Logging: Track role changes and permission modifications
- Translation Ready: Turkish language support included
- Multisite Compatible: Works on multisite networks
PRO Features (Separate Plugin)
- Create Custom Roles: Unlimited custom role creation
- Clone & Delete Roles: Manage custom roles with ease
- Admin Menu Restriction: Control which admin menu items each role can see
- Content Permissions: Granular edit/publish/delete permissions per content type
- Pages & Custom Post Types: Restrict pages and any custom post type
- Multiple Roles Per User: Assign multiple roles to a single user
- Export/Import: Backup and migrate role configurations
- Capability-Based Restrictions: Advanced content restriction options
- Priority Support: Direct email support from developers
Content Restriction
- Shortcode-based content restriction:
[ROAR_restrict role="editor"]Content here[/ROAR_restrict] - Multiple role support:
[ROAR_restrict roles="administrator,editor"]Content here[/ROAR_restrict] - Custom access denied messages
- Meta box for individual post restrictions
- Bulk restriction operations for posts
- PRO: Pages restriction
- PRO: Custom post types restriction
- PRO: Capability-based restrictions
Security Features
- AJAX request validation with security nonce checks
- Permission control ensuring only authorized users can manage roles
- Prevention of removing your own administrator privileges
- Page access control
- Security event logging
- Session validation
Developer Friendly
- GPL v2 or later licensed
- Clean, well-documented code
- WordPress coding standards compliant
- Extensible with filters and actions
License
This plugin is licensed under GPL v2 or later.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.