Title: Advanced Access Rights
Author: Tobias Bäthge
Published: December 1, 2022
Last modified: September 8, 2025

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Restrict access to individual tables for individual users!

# Advanced Access Rights

Normally, TablePress tables can be edited by users in the “Author”, “Editor”, and“
Administrator” [user role](https://tablepress.org/faq/access-capabilities-user-permissions/)
of a WordPress site, as these are usually the users that also edit other site content.
When it’s desired to further configure which users can work on tables, the “Advanced
Access Rights” feature module allows for a fine-grained user access control.

## Feature description

The feature module adds a new “Access Rights” tab to the TablePress screens. On 
this screen, it is possible to configure editing access rights for each individual
user of the site and for each individual table.

It is also possible to configure how new tables should be treated for each user,
and how new users should be treated for each table. If a user, including yourself,
does not have access to a table (i.e., the user’s checkbox for that table is unchecked),
they will not see that table on the TablePress admin screens, e.g. for editing, 
importing, or exporting!

Here’s a view of the user interface:

![Screenshot of the "Advanced Access Rights" configuration screen in TablePress 
Max.](https://tablepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/advanced-access-rights.png)

The “Advanced Access Rights” configuration screen in TablePress Max.

**Pro Tip**: For easier editing, in particular when there are many tables or users,
click the first checkbox of a desired range that should be changed, and click the
last checkbox of that range while holding down the “Shift” key. This will toggle
all checkboxes in that range.

Note that the user’s user role will also need access for a user to be granted access.
This is something to keep in mind if you are using custom user roles, to which the
[TablePress access capabilities](https://tablepress.org/faq/access-capabilities-user-permissions/)
were applied.

[Use this feature with TablePress Max today](https://tablepress.org/pricing/?output_format=md)

## Usage instructions

To use this feature with your tables, enable the “Advanced Access Rights” module
on the TablePress “Modules” screen.

You will then get a new “Access Rights” tab on the TablePress admin screens, on 
which the access control settings can be adjusted, as described above.

The “Filter tables” and “Filter users” input fields allow finding the correct combination
quickly. You can also click on “ID” or “Table Name” headers to sort the list.

The “Advanced Access Rights” feature module is part of the [**TablePress Max plan**](https://tablepress.org/pricing/?output_format=md).

**On this page**

 1. [Feature description](https://tablepress.org/modules/advanced-access-rights/#feature-description)
 2. [Usage instructions](https://tablepress.org/modules/advanced-access-rights/#instructions)