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User Specific Content

by Bainternet · Login & Users

Also makes 16 other plugins · 7.4K+ installs across the portfolio →

This Plugin allows you to select specific users by user name, or by role name who can view a specific post content or page content.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 79/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 59 average across 1,442 Login & Users plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.0, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

43 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 8/100
Rating quality 84/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3196 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+67% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

145

now · peak 288

15130d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

User Specific Conten · #5673 you TheTop7 · #33064

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.3Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

151per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

9.7y ago

latest release · v1.0.6

25

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.6 · 9.7y ago1.0.5 · 11.4y ago1.0.4 · 11.9y ago1.0.3 · 12.0y ago1.0.2 · 12.0y ago1.0.1 · 12.5y ago1.0.0 · 12.5y ago0.9.7 · 13.4y ago0.9.6 · 13.5y ago0.9.5 · 13.5y ago0.9.4 · 13.9y ago0.9.3 · 14.6y ago0.9.2 · 14.9y ago0.9.1 · 14.9y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 99% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 99%
v0.9 1.1%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.6K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-03-22 · 1,429 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

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.

Details

Version
1.0.6
Last updated
8.8y ago
Added
2011-04-13 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
2.9.2
Tested up to
4.7.0
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. Aleksandr Novik
    4.4y ago

    The plugin works! Just look at the FAQ, everything is written there in clear language! The usernames may match (my case), so insert in functions.php code below to see user IDs: function true_user_id_column( $columns ) { $columns['user_id'] = 'ID'; return $columns; } add_filter('manage_users_columns', 'true_user_id_column'); function true_user_id_column_content($value, $column_name, $user_id) { if ( 'user_id' == $column_name ) return $user_id; return $value; } add_action('manage_users_custom_column', 'true_user_id_column_content', 10, 3); function true_user_id_column_style(){ echo '<style>.column-user_id{width: 5%}</style>'; } add_action('admin_head-users.php', 'true_user_id_column_style'); Then just select the ID of the desired user or users, use the plugin shortcode and that’s it! P.S. The code for displaying user IDs in the WP user menu is not mine. Unfortunately I can’t attach a link to the source. I will only say that this is the misha.agency website.

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  2. munizasultan
    8.1y ago

    It does not work correctly when user role name and role slug are different for example Role name is ‘Member’ and slug is ‘abc_member’.

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  3. ssiruguri
    8.2y ago

    It does what I needed – restrict post read access to specific users

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  4. muttznutz
    8.6y ago

    Initial problem, as my template wrote content from outside the the WP $content variable, which wasn’t secured. Sorted it out with output buffering. All is good now.

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  5. Fellipe Sanches
    9.2y ago

    It’s all 🙂

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  6. holgerhubbs
    9.2y ago

    Thank you!

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  7. fdecicco
    9.7y ago

    it works great note that role name must match role id/slug or else no match – ideally slug should be used for matching and name for display only.maybe have 2 meta data fields and use one for display and one for compare. thank you for the plugin.

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  8. dittox
    9.8y ago

    works very good. I wish supports the whole custom post type for different user roles.

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. 2025-12-31 CVE-2025-62749 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.0.6 No patch available

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-02-04 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2026-02-03 1K+ → 2K+ up after 5 days in tier
  3. 2026-01-29 2K+ → 1K+ down after 523 days in tier
  4. 2024-08-24 3K+ → 2K+ down after 372 days in tier
  5. 2023-08-18 4K+ → 3K+ down after 243 days in tier
  6. 2022-12-18 5K+ → 4K+ down

Competes with

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