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WPFront User Role Editor
Total control over permissions until the support team vanishes.
HealthyDeclining
71/100
The core functionality is solid but recent bugs and poor support cause frustration.
Active installs
~35,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
4.5★
65 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-33%
Declining fast
124 → 83 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 33% 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 · -33% in the last year
124/day a year ago→83/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWPFront User Role Editor is a capable and well-regarded plugin for managing custom user roles in WordPress, but recurring complaints about unresponsive support, licensing issues with staging sites, and a breaking regression introduced in version 3.x undermine confidence in the paid offering.
What people like
- +Reliable core functionality for creating and managing custom user roles×6
- +Easy to clone an existing role's permissions to a new role×2
- +Useful for cleaning up orphaned roles left behind by removed membership plugins
- +Developer/support has been responsive and helpful for some Pro users×2
- +Pro version offers additional features such as custom post and taxonomy type generation×2
Common complaints
- −Major regression introduced in version 3.x causes a blank/white homepage for logged-in users, with little effective help from the developer (since 3.x)
- −Support is slow, unhelpful, or entirely absent — forum questions frequently go unanswered×3
- −Licensing system incorrectly flags staging sites as a second live site and deactivates the license
- −Support forum was closed down, removing a key channel for paid customers
- −Deprecated PHP 7.2 functions present in the plugin, requiring an update
- −Update cadence is irregular, causing concern about long-term maintenance×2
- −No direct role-cloning workflow (must create a new role then manually copy capabilities)
- −No built-in documentation or context for individual capabilities within the editor
- −Cannot automatically sync permissions when creating a new subdomain
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.55★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 6%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
2025-06-092025-12-062026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 65 total
Latest reviews · 66 analyzed
- 2025-05-15★★★★★Good plugin for basic tasksfuncdesign
- 2023-02-13★★★★★Like clockworktufty
- 2022-08-25★★★★★From Good to Really Bad – BE AWARE!Eli
- 2022-07-08★★★★★Work Like CharmDeepak Tyagi
- 2021-10-11★★★★★Best user role plugin availablenaresh11381
- 2021-10-09★★★★★Promising, though not useful for multisite with a large number of subdomainswpsitessupport1-shot
- 2021-09-17★★★★★Is this plugin for WP 4.7 available?Jak
- 2019-07-29★★★★★Beautiful and Wonderful!Kelenwa
- 2019-01-20★★★★★Good plugin, but needs upgrade to support PHP 7.2raygulick
- 2018-07-10★★★★★Perfect for my needsbecaneweb
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.
89
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
89
Prior 7-day baseline
68
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
126
Mean release-day peak (30d)
79
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
0.0%
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
3.46
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
82%
5★ share in analyzed sample
6%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.55 → 4.55★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered