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Assign it to a user and they can browse the entire wp-admin like an administrator \u2014 Settings, Users, Plugins, Themes, content, comments and more \u2014 but they cannot change anything. Every write is blocked at the capability layer.<\/p>\n\n<p>What read-only administrators <strong>can<\/strong> do:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>View every admin screen an administrator can see.<\/li>\n<li>Browse Settings, Tools, Users, Plugins, Themes and content lists.<\/li>\n<li>Run a read-only export.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>What they <strong>cannot<\/strong> do:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Save any Settings page (core or plugin Settings API).<\/li>\n<li>Create, edit, publish, trash or delete posts, pages or media.<\/li>\n<li>Add, edit, delete or promote users (including editing their own profile).<\/li>\n<li>Activate, deactivate, install, update, delete or edit plugins.<\/li>\n<li>Switch, install, update, delete or edit themes.<\/li>\n<li>Edit menus, widgets or the Customizer.<\/li>\n<li>Moderate or edit comments.<\/li>\n<li>Make changes through the REST API (the block editor included).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>Known limitations<\/h4>\n\n<p>Enforcement covers core write paths plus the REST API. A small residual surface remains: some third-party plugins that perform writes through their own custom <code>admin-ajax<\/code>\/<code>admin-post<\/code> handlers, and Network Admin (multisite) screens, are not yet covered. These are on the roadmap.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<h4>From your WordPress dashboard<\/h4>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Visit 'Plugins &gt; Add New'<\/li>\n<li>Search for <code>Readministrator (Read Only Administrator)<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Activate <code>Readministrator (Read Only Administrator)<\/code> from your Plugins page.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<h4>From WordPress.org<\/h4>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Download Readministrator (Read Only Administrator).<\/li>\n<li>Upload the 'readministrator-read-only-administrator' directory to your '\/wp-content\/plugins\/' directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc...)<\/li>\n<li>Activate Readministrator (Read Only Administrator) from your Plugins page.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<h4>1.0.0<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>[Feature] Read Only Administrators are now genuinely read-only across the whole admin, not just nine core settings pages. 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