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WordPress Roles and Capabilities

12th October 2016 by Alan Leave a Comment

WordPress comes with a standard set of roles and capabilities e.g.

  • Super Admin ( only applies to multi-site networks )
  • Administrator
  • Editor
  • Author
  • Contributor
  • Subscriber

These roles are described here https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

However these are only the default, and can easily be customised to meet virtually any requirement.

Traditionally this has been a programming task, and many plugins  will add new role definitions e.g. membership plugins will add members,  e-commerce plugins will add purchasers etc.

If you are a PHP coder you will find the necessary functions in the codex e.g. add_role() https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_role

However, there is no need to go down this route if you don’t want to as there are several plugins that add a User Interface to WordPress roles & capability functionality.

My preferred plugin is called Members  – see https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/

as it is easy to use and comprehensive in features

 

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About Alan

I'm Alan from Fullworks Digital Ltd, where I develop WordPress Plugins and support and manage WordPress websites.

My day job consists of solving clients' WordPress issues and developing new code and solutions.

I started as a professional programmer in 1979 and had been involved with the IT of business technology in virtually every area that exist.

Badlywired.com is my personal blog and my aide memoire of the many interesting facts that I come across. As I spend a lot of time gathering parts of solutions from the internet and assembling them into my own solutions, and also just learning how to do things, this blog is primarily my 'note book' and a way of giving something back to the online community that has helped me extensively.

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