Restrict Dashboard by Role

Restrict users with certain User Roles from accessing the WordPress Dashboard (WP Admin).

About

If you have a WordPress website with multiple users and several User Roles defined, and you wish to prevent certain User Roles from accessing wp-admin, then this plugin is for you.

The plugin provides the following functionality:

• An options screen, that lets you:
• Restrict Access to the WordPress Admin Screen (WP Admin) for one or more User Roles.
• Choose how to handle the restriction for users with multiple roles
• Define a login screen error message (if no custom redirect URL is set)
• Set a custom redirect URL

Installation

1. Download this repository and unzip it into the folder restrict-dashboard-by-role
2. Upload the restrict-dashboard-by-role folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
4. Configure the plugin via the 'Restrict Dashboard by Role' options page under the WordPress 'Settings' Menu

Changelog

1.0.0 - 17.09.2015 - First stable release.
1.0.1 - 17.09.2015 - Updated POT File, and cleaned up legacy references.
1.0.2 - 17.09.2015 - Corrected options page path.
1.1.0 - 17.09.2015 - Added ability to choose how to handle restrictions for users with multiple roles.
1.2.0 - 27.09.2015 - Stopped the plugin blocking AJAX calls.
2.0.0 - 01.10.2015 - Code review and refactor.
2.1.0 - 01.10.2015 - Updated for submission to WordPress plugin repository.
2.1.1 - 08.08.2016 - Tested with WordPress 4.5, added option to allow forced logout, allowed all AJAX requests through, updated translations.
2.1.2 - 17.03.2017 - Added new artwork