PublishPress Capabilities is the access control plugin. You can manage user capabilities, permissions, user roles, admin menus and more.
As of April 2026, PublishPress Capabilities is a WordPress user roles plugin with 100K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 142 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.0M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 7.2.5+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 72% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Advanced Access Manager – Access….
PublishPress Capabilities is the access control plugin for WordPress. You can control all the capabilities and permissions on your WordPress site. We built this user role editor plugin so you have an easy and powerful way to manage user capabilities.
You can use PublishPress Capabilities to manage all your WordPress user roles, from Administrators and Editors to Authors, Contributors, Subscribers and custom roles. Each user role can have the exact capabilities that your site needs.
PublishPress Capabilities can clean up your post editing screen, admin area, and even the Profile screen. You can decide what authors see when they’re writing posts. You can hide any feature on the Gutenberg or Classic Editor screens. You can remove items in the WordPress dashboard and inside user account…
One of the greatest strengths of this PublishPress plugin is its full customization capabilities. If you can dream up a new process for managing capabilities based on groups, users, roles, etc., you can almost certainly build it using Capabilities and/or Permissions.
That said, things can get complicated fast. With full customization comes very unique problems. I’ve reached out to PublishPress support on more than one occasion for assistance with our custom configuration. Each time, they’ve been patient and helpful, offering several suggestions and working with me until I can get the problem solved. I highly recommend any of their plugins, especially due to their great customer support!
very good plugin
I liked the plugin, the plugin is good!
Perfect. Makes it so easy to fine tune contributors access to data. Keep up the good work!
Your user permissions system is super flexible! I was able to set different media access levels for authors and editors with just a few clicks. Saves me from using extra plugins!
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2.5+ required |
The full changelog can be found on GitHub.
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