10 Best Menu By User Roles Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Menu By User Roles has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Menu By User Roles
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Admin Bar
Closest matchAdmin Bar Editor – Toolbar Customization with User Role based access & Custom menus
4.3 (21) 3,000+ active installsTake full control of your WordPress admin bar: hide items, reorder menus, and design a cleaner toolbar for every user.
Shares the user roles tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 9 days ago.
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4.8 (21) 8,000+ active installsManage user roles and Capabilities, create new roles and change default role.
Shares the user roles tag on WordPress.org. About 8 times the installs, no update since May 9, 2021.
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Different Menu in Different Pages – Conditional Menu
4.1 (20) 3,000+ active installsEasily assign different menus to pages, posts, user roles, devices, and custom URLs using advanced conditional menu visibility rules.
Shares the user roles tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated October 19, 2025.
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Advanced Access Manager – Access Governance for WordPress
4.2 (420) 100,000+ active installsAccess Governance for WordPress. Control roles, users, content, admin areas, and APIs to prevent broken access controls and excessive privileges.
Shares the user roles tag on WordPress.org. About 100 times the installs, last updated May 25, 2026.
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PublishPress Capabilities – User Role Editor, Access Permissions, User Capabilities, Admin Menus
4.7 (143) 100,000+ active installsPublishPress Capabilities is the access control plugin. You can manage user capabilities, permissions, user roles, admin menus and more.
Shares the user roles tag on WordPress.org. About 100 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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Groups – Memberships and Access Control
4.8 (382) 10,000+ active installsTurn your site into a powerful membership solution. Manage members, teams and access to content easily.
Shares the access-control tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 7 days ago.
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Restrict User Access – Ultimate Membership & Content Protection
4.3 (94) 10,000+ active installsCreate Access Levels and restrict any post, page, category, etc. Supports bbPress, BuddyPress, WooCommerce, WPML, and more.
Shares the access-control tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 11 days ago.
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5.0 (22) 9,000+ active installsAllow multiple user accounts to be created, registered, and updated having the same email address.
About 9 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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Login With Ajax – Fast Logins, 2FA, Redirects
4.6 (166) 10,000+ active installsAdd beautiful login forms with smooth AJAX login/registration effects, 2FA support, custom redrection options and many more login-related features!
About 10 times the installs, last updated May 24, 2026.
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WP User Manager – User Profile Builder & Membership
4.7 (350) 10,000+ active installsThe most customizable profiles & community builder WordPress plugin with front-end login, registration, profile customization and content restriction.
About 10 times the installs, last updated May 30, 2026.
Switching from Menu By User Roles: common questions
What is the best alternative to Menu By User Roles?
Admin Bar is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 3,000+ active installs with a 4.3 out of 5 rating.
Which Menu By User Roles alternative has the most users?
Advanced Access Manager, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Menu By User Roles alternative is rated highest?
Groups, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 382 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Menu By User Roles alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Menu By User Roles score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Menu By User Roles on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Admin Bar is the closest match to Menu By User Roles by the data we track, and Advanced Access Manager has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. Groups shipped the most recent release, on August 31, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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