Editorial Access Manager

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At the current install trend, crossing 100+ in roughly 1767 days.

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

1. ★★★★★ Satyanarayan IYENGAR

   8.1y ago

   Good one

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2. ★★★★★ Janafor

   10.4y ago

   This plugin would really help me but it seems like it’s not working anymore 🙁 crying…

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3. ★★★★★ volopolo

   11.1y ago

   It takes me 2 days to find your plugin, it was exactly what I need. thanks.

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4. ★★★★★ mimijojo

   11.8y ago

   Excellent simple and “to the point” plugin. I use it in combination with the “User Role Editor” plugin.

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5. ★★★★★ Tim Bowen

   11.8y ago

   Love this plugin! It gives granular access to pages so you can have a few users who can only edit a few pages on the site. The big thing you need to know is that these new limited roles can NOT use the role Admin, Editor or Author for this to work correctly. Use Contributor or create a new role with similar capabilities to Contributor. You may also want to hide the EAM panel for non-admins by adding a function like this: // Hides Editorial Access Manager panel if not admin if ( !current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) : ?> <style> #eam_access_manager{ display:none; }; </style> <?php endif; ?>

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6. ★★★★★ Phebee

   11.9y ago

   I have a site where I need a bunch of student (contributors) to only be able to edit certain pages. I also wanted the “edit” button to be hidden for pages they can’t edit. This plugin does that. As well as a “Manage access for roles” option, it would be great to have a “Restrict access for roles” for times when you want a user to only be able to edit one page, for example.

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7. ★★★★★ Marco Chiesi

   11.9y ago

   When developing sites for clients, it’s a recurrent need to lock some specific pages/posts to prevent editing by some users/roles. After looking for a plugin like this for a long time, my company started a very similar project, but it was abandoned after this was published. The plugin is very well coded and even if it still needs some tweaks and minor features, I’m going to use it often.

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8. ★★★★★ pwright2

   12.1y ago

   So I wanted to be able to make it so that a particular editor could only edit certain pages on the site. This plugin makes it easy to prevent an editor from editing a particular page. But to restrict them to editing a single page would require going to every other page and restricting them. I don’t see a way to do them enmasse. For a small site, it appears this would work fine. I’m off to search for other plugins.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

Translated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more · development strings

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-08-31 80+ → 90+ up after 266 days in tier
2. 2025-12-08 90+ → 80+ down after 3 days in tier
3. 2025-12-05 100+ → 90+ down after 13 days in tier
4. 2025-11-22 90+ → 100+ up after 14 days in tier
5. 2025-11-08 100+ → 90+ down after 23 days in tier
6. 2025-10-16 90+ → 100+ up after 17 days in tier
7. 2025-09-29 100+ → 90+ down after 15 days in tier
8. 2025-09-14 90+ → 100+ up after 2 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• U User Roles and Capabilities 8K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
• W WP247 Body Classes 200+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
• WPFalcons Menu Restrictions — installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• RoleGuard — Temporary Role Manager — installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress 100K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag A
• PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A

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Editorial Access Manager: 90+ active installs, 4.9★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/editorial-access-manager