Title: Non-admin cannot access post editor/media upload?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Non-admin cannot access post editor/media upload?

 *  [SheerHeartAttack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sheerheartattack/)
 * (@sheerheartattack)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/non-admin-cannot-access-post-editormedia-upload/)
 * Hi! I want non-admins to not be able to see the main dashboard page, but I still
   want authors to be able to reach the post editor and media library pages. With
   this plugin enabled, those menu items are visible but clicking on them just kicks
   me back to the redirect URL. Is there any way to hide only the main dashboard
   page and still have these pages accessible? Thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/remove-dashboard-access-for-non-admins/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/remove-dashboard-access-for-non-admins/)

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 *  [marketcheck06](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marketcheck06/)
 * (@marketcheck06)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/non-admin-cannot-access-post-editormedia-upload/#post-3686766)
 * Hi Sheer,
 * I am facing exactly the same issue. Did you found any fix successfully on this,
   if so, could you share please.
 * Thanks 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [SheerHeartAttack](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sheerheartattack/)
 * (@sheerheartattack)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/non-admin-cannot-access-post-editormedia-upload/#post-3686767)
 * I wasn’t able to do anything using this plugin. Instead, I’m using WP Hide Dashboard
   to prevent subscribers from accessing the dashboard, and the following code in
   my theme’s functions.php for all non-admins:
 *     ```
       add_action( 'admin_menu', 'my_remove_menu_pages' );
   
       function my_remove_menu_pages() {
       	// If the user does not have access to publish posts
       	if(!current_user_can('manage_options')) {
       		// Remove menus
       		remove_menu_page('index.php');
       	}
       }
       ```
   
 * It won’t actually prevent them from getting to the Dashboard if they have the
   direct URL, but it removes the menu option. That was the best I was able to come
   up with. Hope it helps =)
 *  [marketcheck06](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marketcheck06/)
 * (@marketcheck06)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/non-admin-cannot-access-post-editormedia-upload/#post-3686768)
 * Thanks, This would be my fallback option.
 * I am kind of hopeful to find a solution with this plugin itself to avoid exposing
   dashboard with direct URLs.
 * Also, I saw that ‘user profile’ part is possible to open up for non-admins. Hope
   that could be the case for upload-media as well.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/non-admin-cannot-access-post-editormedia-upload/#post-3686768)
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