sylvainjule/bouncer

Restrict access of a user role to a specific page (and its children) in the panel.

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1.2.0 2025-08-03 19:29 UTC

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Restrict access of a user role to a specific page (and its children) in the panel.

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Overview

This plugin is completely free and published under the MIT license. However, if you are using it in a commercial project and want to help me keep up with maintenance, you can consider making a donation of your choice.


1. Installation

Download and copy this repository to /site/plugins/bouncer

Alternatively, you can install it with composer: composer require sylvainjule/bouncer


2. Setup

The intent of this plugin is to limit a user's ability to edit only their Account page + pages (and their children) selected in a Pages field.

  • First, create a new user role (for example, /site/blueprints/users/test.yml)
  • Set their permissions, and add a pages field:
title: Test

permissions:
  access:
    panel: true
    site: true
    settings: false
    languages: false
    users: false
  # ...
  user:
    changeRole: false
    delete: false
    update: false # else a user will be able to edit the page they have access to on their profile

fields:
  canaccess:
    label: 'The user will only be able to access:'
    type: pages
    options: query
    query: site.pages # or any query that suits your needs
  • In your site/config/config.php, tell the plugin which role => fieldname associations to use:
return [
    'sylvainjule.bouncer.list' => [
        'test' => [ // match the filename without extension of the user blueprint
            'fieldname' => 'canaccess' 
        ]
    ]
];

2.1 Allow additionnal paths

In your site/config/config.php, you can configure for each role some extra paths the user will be able to visit. It can be useful if you have custom panel areas, for example.

return [
    'sylvainjule.bouncer.list' => [
        'test' => [ // match the filename without extension of the user blueprint
            'extra' => [
                [
                    'title' => 'Area title',
                    'path'  => '/area-path'
                ]
            ]
        ]
    ]
];

2.2 Optional page switcher

(beta)

Since 1.0.1 a given user can access different pages. You can remove the multiple: false option from the blueprint:

# User role blueprint
title: Test

fields:
  canaccess:
    label: 'The user will only be able to access:'
    type: pages
    options: query
    query: site.pages # or any query that suits your needs

Add a bouncernav section in every page you'd like to display the page switcher on:

// Anywhere in any blueprint

(...)
sections:
  bouncernav:
    type: bouncernav

Then state in your config.php that you want to display the page switcher for a given user role:

return [
    'sylvainjule.bouncer.list' => [
        'test' => [
            'fieldname' => 'canaccess',
            'nav' => true
        ]
    ]
];

2.3 Fallback path

In your site/config/config.php, you can configure for each role which path to fallback to when the user tries to access a forbidden page. It is optional: if left empty, the first accessible page from the Pages field associated to the user's role (canaccess, in our example) will be used.

return [
    'sylvainjule.bouncer.list' => [
        'test' => [ // match the filename without extension of the user blueprint
            'fallback' => '/fallback-path'
        ]
    ]
];

2.4 Movable pages

By default, a restricted user will be able to move pages even to pages it cannot access. Kirby calls a isMovableTo method to check which pages to disable / enable in the Move page dialog, which is declared in the Page class and cannot be overwritten globally from the plugin. However if you want to apply the bouncer's restrictions to this page tree and disable restricted pages, the plugin provides a replacement method.

You have to declare a custom Page model for each page in order to apply it:

class ExamplePage extends Page {
    public function isMovableTo(Kirby\Cms\Page|Kirby\Cms\Site $parent): bool {
        return Bouncer::isMovableTo($this, $parent);
    }
};

3. Disclaimer

I needed this functionnality for a website and turned it into a plugin. I hope it can prove helpful, but do not intend to extend it or support more refined restriction scenarios with this plugin.


4. License

MIT