Change WordPress user roles and capabilities › Forums › Give user access to plugin – how to › Restricting access to elements of the visual editor Tagged: Visual Editor This topic has 1 reply, 2 voices, and was last updated 7 years, 3 months ago by Vladimir. Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) Author Posts 27/06/2017 at 23:32 #3902 creativeblogsParticipant Is it possible to use URE to restrict access to elements of the visual editor for certain roles? For example, for contributors I want to hide the Format, Categories and Set Featured Image elements. 29/06/2017 at 05:32 #3907 VladimirKeymaster Hi, These elements are named meta boxes at a WordPress. Yes, it’s possible to hide them for a role using ‘Meta boxes access‘ add-on. Author Posts Viewing 2 posts - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Log In Username: Password: Keep me signed in Log In