Title: Plugin Not Securing Menu Items by User
Last modified: November 12, 2017

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# Plugin Not Securing Menu Items by User

 *  [trupod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trupod/)
 * (@trupod)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-securing-menu-items-by-user/)
 * I installed Ultimate Member because the description made it sound like it could
   secure menu items (and their direct URLs) by user. But now the plug-in is installed
   and I can’t find any way to do this. I need particular menu items to be allowed
   to only specific users.
 * This is a classroom website. My gradebook is a Google Sheet provided by the school,
   and each student’s section of the Sheet is “published to web” and embedded in
   an iframe on the student’s private page. Now I think I need to provide menu items
   for each student to reach his private page, and I don’t want students to see 
   any other student’s menu item. I also want the direct URL to these menu items
   to be secured.
 * All the plugins I’ve found so far depend on roles, or on logged-in status, but
   not on individual user IDs. I am familiar with php and htaccess but not yet familiar
   with WP internals.
 * I had been using the WP-Members plugin to secure our private classroom website,
   and using the User Specific Content plugin to secure a private page for each 
   student’s grades. (This plugin can also secure posts, but not menu items.)
 * I was prepared to replace them with Ultimate Member but it doesn’t seem to do
   anything that WP-Members didn’t already do. User Specific Content’s checkboxes
   would be great if they were available to menu item editing the way that they 
   are for Page Editing.
 * Is there a better strategy to accomplish this?
    If this strategy is good, is 
   there already a plugin for this? All suggestions or corrections welcome. Thank
   yyou for your attention.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fplugin-not-securing-menu-items-by-user%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [Ultimate Member Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ultimatemembersupport/)
 * (@ultimatemembersupport)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-securing-menu-items-by-user/#post-9677652)
 * Hi [@trupod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trupod/),
 * I’m afraid, it is not possible to restrict menu items for specific users, it 
   is only possible for user roles.
    The workaround would be creating the separate
   user roles for the student who can access your private page and for the student
   who can’t access it.
 * Thanks for your suggestions, we will see if it is possible to add this option
   in the future.
 * Regards.

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