User Role Editor Pro

User Role Editor Pro costs $87 once for 1 site. The annual plan costs $29 a year, so the lifetime license pays for itself after 36 months. Over five years you save $58 compared with renewing every year.

The User Role Editor Pro lifetime deal is worth it if several people work in your WordPress backend and each role should see only what it needs. Role rules rarely change once they work, so paying once instead of every year fits this kind of plugin well, and support and all future Pro updates are included for life. Each license also covers a development copy for testing.

It pays off less if you only adjust a capability or two, which the free plugin already handles. If you run several sites, compare the lifetime tiers for 5 and unlimited sites before you buy. Checkout works through a Stripe payment link that you request first, and you have 30 days to ask for a refund.

The free User Role Editor on wordpress.org, with 700,000+ active installs, lets you change what each role may do, create new roles and grant extra capabilities to single users. For many sites with a few authors that is enough.

User Role Editor Pro goes further: it blocks admin menu items, meta boxes and Appearance widgets per role, limits editing to selected posts, categories or authors and controls access to individual plugins. Roles can be exported, imported and managed across a multisite network.

Role rules are set up once and then stay in place as long as the team works on the site. A yearly plan means paying again for rules that rarely change. The lifetime license replaces those renewals with one payment and keeps support and Pro updates running.

Lifetime tiers exist for 1, 5 and unlimited sites, and each license also covers a development copy next to the live site, so you can test role changes before they go live.

You request a Stripe payment link, pay and then install the Pro version you download after the purchase. Roles are stored in your WordPress database, so the ones you already set up stay in place. Test new restrictions on the development copy first, so no editor gets locked out of a screen they need.

Sites

1 site

Updates

For life

Support

For life

Money back guarantee

30 days

Taken from the vendor’s pricing page, like the price above.

On the market since

2010

Active installs

700,000+ free version on wordpress.org

Rating

4.5 out of 5 on wordpress.org

Current version

4.66.2

Last update

Sep 25, 2026

Figures from the public plugin directory, checked on Oct 4, 2026. wordpress.org listing(opens in a new tab)

We note every change to the lifetime price we find on the vendor’s page. The history starts with our first check.