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Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress
Master your user roles or accidentally lock yourself out forever.
HealthyDeclining
68/100
The granular control is powerful but the risk of accidental admin lockout is real.
Active installs
~150,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.2★
420 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-32%
Declining fast
1,124 → 763 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 32% vs a year ago
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -32% in the last year
1,124/day a year ago→763/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayAdvanced Access Manager is well-regarded as a powerful, fine-grained access control plugin for WordPress, but carries a real risk of locking administrators out of their own sites and has credible reports of settings not persisting reliably.
What people like
- +Highly granular control over menus, pages, roles, capabilities, and file access×4
- +Can replace multiple other access/privacy plugins with a single solution×2
- +Free version includes meaningful file protection features via the companion AAM Protected Media Files plugin×2
- +Support is praised as fast and thorough, including direct Zoom sessions×3
- +Pro version considered affordable and worth the cost for advanced needs×2
Common complaints
- −Risk of locking the administrator out of their own site with no built-in warning or safeguard×3
- −Settings do not always persist after being changed
- −Key security features (JWT registry limit, One Session Per User) reported as non-functional
- −Conflicts with other plugins reported, including incompatibility with WPCode
- −Metabox hiding feature does not appear to work in the Gutenberg block editor
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.08★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.20★
- 11%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 420 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-09-23★★★★★FantasticSepi
- 2025-01-17★★★★★Best in classyungcyang
- 2024-09-11★★★★★This is an incredible pluginVassos Hadjivassiliou
- 2024-06-12★★★★★Doesn't find all Plugin Toolbarstomo55555
- 2024-03-18★★★★★Metaboxes and Gutenbergsuperwpml
- 2024-02-29★★★★★Awesome Plugin with Great Supportadamr0011-shot
- 2024-01-11★★★★★AAM é um ótimo plugin. Recomendo!rosalvoalc1-shot
- 2023-10-20★★★★★Incredible supportdotboy
- 2023-08-09★★★★★Best Member Administration Plugin for WordPressdarkoverload1-shot
- 2023-06-18★★★★★Great AAMnicolasvsedeco
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
600
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
997
Prior 7-day baseline
982
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
6,529
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,448
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-39.8%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.70
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
73%
5★ share in analyzed sample
11%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.13 → 4.08★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered