frontier-restrict-backend

Frontier Restrict Backend

Frontier Restrict Backend will restrict users from access to the backend (admin area)

43.5 opportunity score Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org

100active installs

7.5Kdownloads

5.0rating

0unresolved threads

4complaints analyzed

3praise analyzed

Proof Health

Open evidence

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53.6% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

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Download Momentum

180 days

39recent 30 days 70previous 30 days -44.3%movement 337shown total

Related Opportunities

3 markets

Commercial opportunity Admin: Admin and client-governance operations admin and client-governance operations · final 77.1 · proof validated Needs sharper proof Access: Access control and account operations access control and account operations · final 65.7 · proof partial Generic category Backend: WordPress operations workflow WordPress operations workflow · final 48.0 · proof not collected

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.88

Restrict level filter for Frontier Restrict Backend not working.

Restrict level filter for Frontier Restrict Backend not working.: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Hi, I have installed Frontier Post, Frontier Restrict Backend, Frontier Restrict Media, and Frontier Set Featured.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78

limit only to Subscriber & Contributor

limit only to Subscriber & Contributor: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

limit only to Subscriber & Contributor Work nicely but would it be possible to have a workaround to have your plugin to restrict backend on roles instead (Contributor & Subscriber)?

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75

Don’t work now

Don’t work now: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Don’t work now the first time I installed it it didn’t work anymore 🙁 The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] the first time I installed it it didn’t work anymore 🙁 The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link]

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75

Featured Image problem

Featured Image problem: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Featured Image problem There has been an issue with Featured Image upload, introduced by some change in an earlier version (not sure which).

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.69

Logging in when Plugin Enabled

Logging in when Plugin Enabled: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

But if you don’t have a link to login, then to login when this plugin is enabled you, need to go to your wordpressurl/wp-login.php Not sure if this is mentioned elsewhere.

praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44

Perfect

Perfect: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Perfect Really thanks for this helpful plugin.

praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38

Great plugin

Great plugin: users praise easy, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Great plugin Easy to use and does exactly what is needed.

praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38

Cool Beans

Cool Beans: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Cool Beans Just works.

mixed support · low severity · relevance 0.57

Filter doesn’t work for me

Filter doesn’t work for me: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

This is my code in the function.php of my child-theme.

question support · low severity · relevance 0.51

Restrict Pages

Restrict Pages: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

Proof Blocked card complete admin and client-governance operations Evidence linked to opportunity

Yes The plugin restricts access to the back-end (admin area), so unless you have a plugin or theme that enables editing post and/or pages in tje front-end, it will not be possible Yes The plugin restricts access to the back-end (admin area), so unless you have a plugin or theme that enables editing post and/or pages in tje front-end, it will not be possible

Competitor Context

16 shown

User Role Editor weak incumbent · intel 78.5 · weakness 64.2

weak incumbent

4 unresolved support thread(s) 29 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: membership site owners, agencies, and operations teams · Wedge: test user roles, protected content, SSO/login handoffs, and private-data exposure

source 1 source 2

Loginizer weak incumbent · intel 78.1 · weakness 63.1

weak incumbent

3 unresolved support thread(s) 11 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

source 1 source 2

WP JV Post Reading Groups praise owner · intel 73.6 · weakness 66.0

praise owner

stale update history below-average rating compatibility support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts

source 1 source 2

Read More Login praise owner · intel 70.7 · weakness 61.6

praise owner

stale update history 13 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect shortcode layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues

source 1 source 2

User Access Manager praise owner · intel 69.5 · weakness 52.5

praise owner

25 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: membership site owners, agencies, and operations teams · Wedge: test user management roles, protected content, SSO/login handoffs, and private-data exposure

source 1 source 2

Remove Dashboard Access praise owner · intel 67.8 · weakness 50.9

praise owner

9 collected complaint signal(s) support bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: test login lockouts, bot/spam defenses, risky access changes, and incident alerts

source 1 source 2

User Access Manager – NextGEN Gallery Extension praise owner · intel 67.7 · weakness 63.1

praise owner

stale update history 24 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check gallery publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

source 1 source 2

Members – Membership & User Role Editor Plugin praise owner · intel 66.6 · weakness 46.6

praise owner

3 unresolved support thread(s) 4 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: course creators, membership businesses, and agencies · Wedge: monitor memberships access rules, course delivery, subscriber billing, and support-heavy failures

source 1 source 2

Repeated Themes

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No repeated plugin-level themes have been generated yet.

Collected Signals

11 shown from 11 collected

complaint Don’t work now support · 2023-10-24T16:14:44+00:00 · medium severity · access

Don’t work now: users show support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Don’t work now the first time I installed it it didn’t work anymore 🙁 The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] the first time I installed it it didn’t work anymore 🙁 The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link]

support setup value access control and account operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

source plugin

praise Cool Beans (5 stars) review · 2018-07-18T00:28:37+00:00 · medium severity · access

Cool Beans: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Cool Beans Just works.

reliable access control and account operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

source plugin

complaint Logging in when Plugin Enabled support · 2018-04-14T18:11:21+00:00 · medium severity · access

Logging in when Plugin Enabled: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: But if you don’t have a link to login, then to login when this plugin is enabled you, need to go to your wordpressurl/wp-login.php Not sure if this is mentioned elsewhere.

compatibility login access control and account operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

source plugin

complaint Restrict level filter for Frontier Restrict Backend not working. support · 2018-01-03T07:44:53+00:00 · medium severity · access

Restrict level filter for Frontier Restrict Backend not working.: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Hi, I have installed Frontier Post, Frontier Restrict Backend, Frontier Restrict Media, and Frontier Set Featured.

bugs compatibility missing feature support access control and account operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

source plugin

question Restrict Pages support · 2018-01-03T06:40:26+00:00 · low severity · access

Restrict Pages: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Yes The plugin restricts access to the back-end (admin area), so unless you have a plugin or theme that enables editing post and/or pages in tje front-end, it will not be possible Yes The plugin restricts access to the back-end (admin area), so unless you have a plugin or theme that enables editing post and/or pages in tje front-end, it will not be possible

compatibility access control and account operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

source plugin

mixed Filter doesn’t work for me support · 2017-08-22T18:43:46+00:00 · low severity · access

Filter doesn’t work for me: users show compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: This is my code in the function.php of my child-theme.

compatibility support reliable access control and account operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

source plugin

complaint Featured Image problem support · 2017-02-25T15:13:50+00:00 · medium severity · access

Featured Image problem: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Featured Image problem There has been an issue with Featured Image upload, introduced by some change in an earlier version (not sure which).

bugs missing feature reliable access control and account operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

source plugin

praise Perfect (5 stars) review · 2016-08-07T21:15:40+00:00 · medium severity · access

Perfect: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Perfect Really thanks for this helpful plugin.

support quality access control and account operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

source plugin

mixed User profile disabled support · 2016-06-17T06:45:02+00:00 · low severity · access

User profile disabled: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: User profile disabled Plugin works fine to disable non-admin user access to backend, but it also disables user access to their own profile.

missing feature reliable access control and account operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

source plugin

mixed limit only to Subscriber & Contributor support · 2016-05-02T20:34:08+00:00 · medium severity · access

limit only to Subscriber & Contributor: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: limit only to Subscriber & Contributor Work nicely but would it be possible to have a workaround to have your plugin to restrict backend on roles instead (Contributor & Subscriber)?

compatibility missing feature setup reliable access control and account operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

source plugin

praise Great plugin (5 stars) review · 2015-10-21T11:48:48+00:00 · medium severity · access

Great plugin: users praise easy, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Great plugin Easy to use and does exactly what is needed.

easy quality access control and account operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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