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Controlled Admin Access
Hand out temporary keys without losing control of the whole kingdom.
HealthyDeclining
76/100
It provides useful temporary access but carries risks of content loss or site breakage.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.8★
44 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-11%
Declining
33 → 30 installs/day
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 · -11% in the last year
33/day a year ago→30/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayControlled Admin Access is generally praised for reliably restricting admin capabilities and enabling temporary access for external users, though a few users report content-deletion bugs, theme conflicts, and a steep learning curve.
What people like
- +Works reliably and exactly as described×4
- +Enables temporary admin access for external developers or outsiders×2
- +Provides fine-grained control to block specific admin areas (e.g., WooCommerce, individual menus)×4
- +Developer is responsive and friendly
- +Offers powerful restrictions for free that are often paid features elsewhere
Common complaints
- −Deleting a user via the plugin also deletes all of that user’s content without prompting to keep it
- −Conflicts with the Avada theme, causing site breakage and requiring a restore from backup
- −Requires careful reading of instructions; users may misconfigure the plugin and lose access
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.78★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 16%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-03-162025-05-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 44 total
Latest reviews · 44 analyzed
- 2025-02-25★★★★★Great Pluginbogeyman2007
- 2025-01-24★★★★★Perfect softwarepixluser
- 2024-09-26★★★★★Excellent!jmsil
- 2024-09-04★★★★★Great, simple and fastbobska1-shot
- 2024-02-17★★★★★Account/User Content Deletediisol1-shot
- 2023-06-06★★★★★GREAT PLUGIN – solves issue of giving custom restricted admin accesssupernftsociety1-shot
- 2023-02-28★★★★★Far the bestsamuel5
- 2022-11-11★★★★★Killed my websiteEthan5150
- 2022-10-29★★★★★Almost perfect plugin !romonoutic
- 2022-08-22★★★★★Bugrezamoeini1-shot
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.
35
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
28
Prior 7-day baseline
29
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
60
Mean release-day peak (30d)
30
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+25.0%
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.
20%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.14
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
89%
5★ share in analyzed sample
16%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.77 → 4.78★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered