Tips and tricks

So today I needed a plugin in wordpress to prevent my users in a demo site from changing the password to a demo account I set up for my previews. I searched the interweb in hope to find a free solution and this what I came up with.

This is the first plugin that I tried. The name is intuitive, it should do the job properly.

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Admin Menu Editor

Lets you directly edit the WordPress admin menu. You can re-order, hide or rename existing menus, add custom menus and more.

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The admin looks pretty slick, seems to do just what I needed. But it did not work. At all. Tried the admin permission setting on both Profile and Users.

Then, I went on Stack Overflow. Users seemed pretty sure this would do the job.
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Members

A user, role, and content management plugin for controlling permissions and access. A plugin for making WordPress a more powerful CMS

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Right from the admin, I realized it will not help me. So, no.

Tired, I went to something more specific in Google Search, I added the profile menu item to the query. I ended up to this.

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Profiless

Profiless is a plugin that removes access to the profile page based on user role.

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So I recommend this plugin.

Seems to do just what I needed, and everyone else needs on administrating menu items in WordPress.

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