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User Role Editor

User Role Editor

Security User Roles & Access Control

User Role Editor is a WordPress plugin for User Roles & Access Control. It ranks #1 of 87 in that group by active installs and was last updated 1 day ago.

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Slug user-role-editor

700K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
4.5 Rating out of 5 From 288 ratings
192 Releases Since 22 March 2010
Nov 2026 Last release 1 day ago

Maintenance check

Is User Role Editor still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

  • Updated recently. The last release was 1 day ago.
  • Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.2; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
  • Well rated. 4.5 out of 5 from 288 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 99.8% of the directory

Ahead of 47,639 of the 47,729 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

99.8% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
47,639 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
89 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
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The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
4.67
Requires WordPress
4.7
Tested up to
7.2
Requires PHP
8.2
Added to the directory
22 March 2010
Last updated
4 November 2026
Contributors
1
Author
Vladimir Garagulya
Support threads resolved
1 of 2

Its own tags

  • access
  • editor
  • role
  • security
  • user

Free text typed by the plugin author. The statistics page explains why they are not a taxonomy.

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