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User Access Manager
Powerful permissions that might leave you stranded.
HealthyDeclining
70/100
Granular controls provide great utility but compatibility issues cause significant anxiety.
Active installs
~14,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.3★
114 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-24%
Declining
68 → 52 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 · -24% in the last year
68/day a year ago→52/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayUser Access Manager is praised for its ease of use and granular user-role controls, but users report compatibility crashes with newer WordPress/Divi versions, PHP requirements, and limited support.
What people like
- +Easy to use and simple setup×4
- +Granular user-role and content restriction, including backend role creation and menu hiding×3
- +Ability to lock media files
- +Replaces multiple other access-control plugins
- +Long-term stability; works for years without issues
Common complaints
- −Crashes the backend with newer WordPress (5.5+) and Divi versions (since WordPress 5.5.x)
- −New update requires PHP 7.3, causing crashes on PHP 7.2 sites (since PHP 7.3)
- −Incompatible with Elementor; private pages become visible to all users
- −Poor or unresponsive support; perceived abandonment×3
- −Permission handling issue: editors can modify categories they should only read
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.32★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.30★
- 10%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 100% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-07-092026-01-052026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 114 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-06-24★★★★★Export users by roleJiri PILAT
- 2022-12-20★★★★★Amazing Jobale8521
- 2022-09-16★★★★★Amazinghanspeter777
- 2022-02-24★★★★★Great plugin, but some questionsjelleruben
- 2022-02-11★★★★★Easy to usecvonk
- 2021-10-18★★★★★Running well on WP 5.8.1AJB Ferreira
- 2021-02-26★★★★★Crashesjenshagman
- 2021-02-25★★★★★Great plugin , perfect protection !a3vd
- 2021-02-13★★★★★ThanksAnonymous User 15932932
- 2020-09-07★★★★★Crashes Divi Builder, had to deinstall, sadlyHanno
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.
50
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
61
Prior 7-day baseline
141
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,295
Mean release-day peak (30d)
142
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
-18.0%
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.
100%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.32
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
71%
5★ share in analyzed sample
10%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.31 → 4.32★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered