Access Areas for WordPress

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 97% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ I am GrokGPT

   7.3y ago

   Fix this ASAP

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2. ★★★★★ Jeroen

   7.5y ago

   Can’t remove plugin, page turns white, nothing happens…

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3. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   7.7y ago

   无法关闭改插件，跳到了错误页！

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4. ★★★★★ motonori

   8.6y ago

   I like this mechanism to restrict contents. But I cannot uninstall this plugin (1.5.4) by manager UI. Just a blank page is shown when clicking the uninstall link.

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5. ★★★★★ jumper

   8.9y ago

   Like everyone here, I have tested so many plugins to protect content (posts, pages, etc) based on user groups. This plugin does the job beautifully. You can set the default group for content. You can assign users to groups. You can assign content to groups. The only feature it needs, in my view, is hierarchical access. This is probably too much to ask – because it will put all paid plugins out of business 🙂 I’m a bit hesitant to implement this for clients because I fear it has been abandoned – last updated a year ago.

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6. ★★★★★ superant346

   9.2y ago

   I spent 2 full days looking for a plugin that redirects non-logged in user to specific url if the guest clicks on a specific page. I have downloaded over 30 plugins and none specifically caters my need until I find this plugin. I can’t emphasise enough how happy I am now 🙂

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7. ★★★★★ NoxPointe

   10.2y ago

   I’ve been looking for a way to restrict access to certain articles of a knowledge base to different user groups for a couple of weeks. This plugin solved all of the issues that I was having and I didn’t even need to couple it with a separate role manager plugin. (Seems like it would work really well with the Members plugin or any other role management plugin though.) Thank you!

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8. ★★★★★ Javier Carazo

   10.9y ago

   Your plugin is great :), it is really useful for everybody who wants to manage and control where people can access. I want to tell you also that I am the head creator of Import Users From CSV With Meta and in the new version of this plugin 1.7.2, I have just included compatibility with your plugin. People can import access areas directly in the CSV. Thanks!!

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 6.1 Access Areas <= 1.5.19 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-04-01 CVE-2025-30913 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.5.19 Patched in 1.5.20

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.9

Translated into 2 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-10-05 500+ → 400+ down after 26 days in tier
2. 2025-09-09 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2025-09-08 500+ → 400+ down after 4 days in tier
4. 2025-09-04 400+ → 500+ up after 9 days in tier
5. 2025-08-26 500+ → 400+ down after 3 days in tier
6. 2025-08-23 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in tier
7. 2025-08-21 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
8. 2025-08-20 400+ → 500+ up after 1 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).

• User Role Editor 700K+ installs · 4.5★ · 4 shared tags A
• Controlled Admin Access 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 4 shared tags A
• Hide This 2K+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags D
• Loginizer 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
• User Posts Limit 3K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• Simple Client Dashboard 2K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A

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Access Areas for WordPress: 400+ active installs, 4.5★ (17 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-access-areas