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user roles

User Roles matters only if the evidence supports a paid workflow around keeping user access, permissions, and protected content correct, not a list of isolated fixes. The current commercial thesis is: Access mistakes expose private content, block paying users, and create support-heavy account problems. The entry wedge is to audit roles, permissions, protected pages, and login handoffs before access issues reach customers.

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Opportunity Summary

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Build an access control and account operations plugin for membership site owners, agencies, and operations teams: Access mistakes expose private content, block paying users, and create support-heavy account problems. The first wedge is to audit roles, permissions, protected pages, and login handoffs before access issues reach customers.

The unmet need is not the individual complaint. It is the recurring business workflow: Access mistakes expose private content, block paying users, and create support-heavy account problems. Current stage: commercial plugin opportunity.

Competitors

15 shown
Multiple Roles 5.0K installs · 4.7
praise owner
-93.5%momentum 66.2weakness 15/15pain/praise

Pain still appears around support, compatibility despite praise for quality, easy.

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User Roles and Capabilities 8.0K installs · 4.8
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-97.0%momentum 66.5weakness 19/22pain/praise

Pain still appears around support, missing feature despite praise for quality, reliable.

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HM Multiple Roles 1.0K installs · 3.6
praise owner
-97.0%momentum 64.9weakness 7/5pain/praise

Pain still appears around bugs, support despite praise for easy, value.

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WP247 Body Classes 200 installs · 4.5
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-95.1%momentum 44.1weakness 3/6pain/praise

Pain still appears around performance, compatibility despite praise for value, setup.

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Premmerce User Roles 600 installs · 5.0
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-96.5%momentum 20.8weakness 1/2pain/praise

Pain still appears around missing feature, bugs despite praise for quality, support.

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User Role Switcher 100 installs · 5.0
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-98.3%momentum 18.4weakness 1/2pain/praise

Pain still appears around missing feature, pricing despite praise for quality, reliable.

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Menu By User Roles 1.0K installs · 5.0
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-96.2%momentum 16.0weakness 0/3pain/praise

Owned praise to avoid copying: quality.

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Evidence

Open evidence explorer
complaint Roles don’t display on users screen while plugin is activated

Roles don’t display on users screen while plugin is activated: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Multiple Roles · Roles don’t display on users screen while plugin is activated As title says, I don’t see any roles listed in the roles column of the users screen (../wp-admin/users.php) while “multiple roles” plugin is activated. complaint Security issues & no support.

Security issues & no support.: users show security, bugs, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

HM Multiple Roles · Security issues & no support. complaint Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS): users show security, bugs, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

HM Multiple Roles · I’m referring to the same cross-scripting error that was mentioned here already and was first reported on July 18th, 2023. complaint plugin error

plugin error: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Different Menu in Different Pages – Conditional Menu · plugin error i have installed the plugin and i get the below error. complaint Warning, do not use this plugin for JWT auth features

Warning, do not use this plugin for JWT auth features: users show security, bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress · Warning, do not use this plugin for JWT auth features 1 The settings for this plugin does not always persist after you make a change to them. mixed WPC Product Bundles and WPC Price by User Role CONFLICT

WPC Product Bundles and WPC Price by User Role CONFLICT: users show bugs, compatibility, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

WPC Price by User Role for WooCommerce · WPC Product Bundles and WPC Price by User Role CONFLICT It’s not compatible with WPC Product Bundles. complaint WPC Product Bundles and WPC Price by User Role CONFLICT

WPC Product Bundles and WPC Price by User Role CONFLICT: users show bugs, compatibility, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

WPC Price by User Role for WooCommerce · WPC Product Bundles and WPC Price by User Role CONFLICT When I assign a discount percentage for a specific role, the bundle price is displayed correctly, but at checkout, the price is incorrect. mixed v1.0.13 not compatible with Premmerce v1.3.20

v1.0.13 not compatible with Premmerce v1.3.20: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Premmerce User Roles · v1.0.13 not compatible with Premmerce v1.3.20 Hello! mixed Fatal error after latest AAM update

Fatal error after latest AAM update: users show bugs, compatibility, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress · Fatal error after latest AAM update Hi, after the latest update of the AAM Plus Package plugin, my site crashed and now I can only access it in recovery mode. mixed Plugin cuases critical error

Plugin cuases critical error: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress · Plugin cuases critical error In wordpress 6.8.1, installing this plugin causes a critical error. mixed v 7.0.2 crash the wp-admin Apparence > menu

v 7.0.2 crash the wp-admin Apparence > menu: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress · v 7.0.2 crash the wp-admin Apparence > menu Error 500 on the menu page with AAM v7.0.2. mixed custom roles, php

custom roles, php: users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Multiple Roles · custom roles, php I have created a number of customer roles which show up and can be selected in your checkbox UI. complaint Conflict with Nested Pages

Conflict with Nested Pages: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Editorial Access Manager · Conflict with Nested Pages Lates version of both plugin are incompatible. complaint User deleter throws a memory exausted error on the plugins page

User deleter throws a memory exausted error on the plugins page: users show bugs, compatibility, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

Role Based User Deleter · User deleter throws a memory exausted error on the plugins page I can’t recommend it, because on mine site is trows an error: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 20480 bytes) in /home/mercilin/public_html/wp-includes/class-wpdb.php on line 2328 The base contains approx 15k users. complaint Is multiple roles dead?

Is multiple roles dead?: users show security, bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Multiple Roles · Hi guys, Sorry I did not notice that issue, I received a security report, I have to update the plugin Hi Florian, Can you let us know when this plugin will be updated as we have been rather relying on using this on our website? complaint please connect with me asap

please connect with me asap: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Different Menu in Different Pages – Conditional Menu · please connect with me asap please connect with me asap, i want hlp for Different Menu in Different Pages plugin support team, my worpdress website I used lot on webapages to Different Menu in Different Pages and i used the pro plugin but it suddently stop the working and my website completly broken The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] please mixed Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS): users show security, bugs, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

HM Multiple Roles · Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but WP Toolkit on Plesk has just alerted me to the following vulnerability: WordPress HM Multiple Roles plugin <= 1.9 – Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability Do you know about this already and is a fix in the works? mixed Parse error with PHP 7.2

Parse error with PHP 7.2: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress · Parse error with PHP 7.2 Hello, The AAM version 7.0 crashs with PHP 7.2. mixed PHP 8 incompatible

PHP 8 incompatible: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Premmerce User Roles · PHP 8 incompatible Please check your code to make it compatible with PHP 8. complaint Version 2.4.1 caused an error on the WooCommerce login screen: /index.php/my-ac

After updating, customers immediately lost access to WooCommerce accounts needed to place orders, so the user reverted while a hotfix was planned.

PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus · my customers immediately lost access to their WooCommerce accounts to place orders complaint Shows admin bar for guests

Shows admin bar for guests: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles · Hi, In next update, I will add this feature as well. complaint No Support / No Response

No Support / No Response: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress · No Support / No Response It’s pretty clear to me that the author has disappeared. mixed Fatal Error on WP Admin Menus Page

Fatal Error on WP Admin Menus Page: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress · Fatal Error on WP Admin Menus Page After today’s update I am unable to access the WP admin menu page (/wp-admin/nav-menus.php) due to a critical error. complaint V7.0.10 causes no access to the WordPress dashboard (default shown after login)

Version 7.0.10 blocked users from accessing the WordPress dashboard after login until they downgraded.

Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress · causes users after login having the “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page” complaint Composer requires PHP 8

An update blocked all admin access on PHP 7.4 even though the plugin page claimed support for PHP 5.6 or higher.

Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress · updated this morning and blocked all access to the admin area complaint Latest update seems to have caused a fatal error

An Advanced Access Manager update caused a fatal error in an add-on during plugin loading.

Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress · PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method AAM::isAAM() mixed Hide plugins via Access & Security Policy

Hide plugins via Access & Security Policy: users show security, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress · Hide plugins via Access & Security Policy I don’t know why below code doesn’t work with latest version AAM. complaint PHP Fatal Error Fix – Array to String Conversion in cap-helper.php

PublishPress Capabilities crashed sites when third-party plugins provided capability values as arrays, and the reporter supplied a type-validation fix.

PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus · causing complete site crashes complaint WP 6.8 regression “Sorry, you are not allowed to give users that role.”

A WordPress 6.8 change made adding users on Multisite fail when Multiple Roles hid the default role field, and the maintainer dismissed the report.

Multiple Roles · adding or inviting users on a Multisite sub-site fails with the fatal error complaint Critical error on sites after update to 2.41.0

Capability Manager Enhanced 2.41.0 caused critical errors across managed sites after an automatic update, with support merging the report into a broader breakage thread.

PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus · the websites we manage have returned with the WordPress critical error on the site complaint 2.41 breaks on front-end: “pp_capabilities_feature_enabled()” undefined.

A PublishPress Capabilities update took sites down with an undefined function error, though the vendor shipped a quick fix.

PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus · Site went down after the update. Reverting to 2.40.0 fixed things complaint PHP Fatal error

A PublishPress Capabilities update caused a front-end fatal error, and support closed this duplicate in favor of the first reported thread.

PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus · last update cause pp fatal error complaint [NSFW] Recent Update – Critical PHP Fatal Error On Frontend

A PublishPress Capabilities update caused a frontend PHP fatal error from an undefined function, with support closing as a duplicate.

PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus · Critical PHP Fatal Error On Frontend neutral Improve I18N Issues (Based on 4.1.0)

Improve I18N Issues (Based on 4.1.0): users show security, bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Hide Admin Bar Based on User Roles · Improve I18N Issues (Based on 4.1.0) For getting better I18N, I modified some codes as the following. complaint Administrator Role No Longer Able to Add/Delete Plugins, Themes Or WordPress

An administrator role lost the ability to add or delete plugins, themes, and WordPress updates, possibly after a plugin update, but the cause was not confirmed.

PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus · Admins No Longer Able to Add/Delete Plugins, Themes Or WordPress. praise Very Good Costumer Service

Very Good Costumer Service: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Different Menu in Different Pages – Conditional Menu · Very Good Costumer Service I bought the premium version and had a critical bug on my website that the developer helped me fix. praise The perfect solution for protecting files and content.

The perfect solution for protecting files and content.: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress · The perfect solution for protecting files and content. neutral HM Multiple Roles Vulnerability

HM Multiple Roles Vulnerability: users show security, bugs, performance pain that may indicate a product gap.

HM Multiple Roles · HM Multiple Roles Vulnerability got this message: Rafie Muhammad (Patchstack) discovered and reported this Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress HM Multiple Roles Plugin. neutral Security issue

Security issue: users show security, bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

HM Multiple Roles · Security issue Hi Any user with a basic role can go to his edit profile page and change his role to admin. praise Restricting password changes for non-administrators

Restricting password changes for non-administrators: users show security pain that may indicate a product gap.

Restrict Password Change for Non-Administrators · Restricting password changes for non-administrators is useful for the admin as it enhances security and ensures controlled access management.