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Restrict wp-admin access to certain users

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Adding this snippet to the functions.php of your wordpress theme will restrict wp-admin access to certain users as defined at

http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

And also still allows for user access to admin-ajax.php , async-upload.php .

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  1. function restrict_access_admin_panel(){
  2.                 global $current_user;
  3.                 get_currentuserinfo();
  4.  
  5. 	if (
  6. 			// Look for the presence of /wp-admin/ in the url
  7. 			stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'/wp-admin/') !== false
  8. 			&&
  9. 			// Allow calls to async-upload.php
  10. 			stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'async-upload.php') == false
  11. 			&&
  12. 			// Allow calls to admin-ajax.php
  13. 			stripos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'],'admin-ajax.php') == false
  14. 		) {
  15.  
  16. 				// Does the current user fail the required capability level?
  17.                 if (!current_user_can('activate_plugins')) {
  18.                         wp_redirect( get_bloginfo('url') );
  19.                         exit;
  20.                 }
  21. 			}		
  22.         }
  23.         add_action('admin_init', 'restrict_access_admin_panel', 1);

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