Roles & Capabilities
Take full control of user roles and capabilities in WordPress with an intuitive, powerful interface.
5(6 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, Roles & Capabilities is a WordPress edit plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 30K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.1+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Downloads are up 15% this week. Top alternative: Forget About Shortcode Buttons.
5/56 reviews
1.0K+active installs
30K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
Roles & Capabilities empowers administrators with a complete toolset for managing user roles and capabilities directly from the WordPress admin — no code required.
Designed for simplicity and control, this plugin allows you to customize user permissions to fit any use case. Access is strictly limited to site administrators for maximum security; no additional capabilities can grant access to its features.
Key Features
- Create and manage custom roles.
- Edit role names and assign or remove capabilities.
- Clone existing roles for faster setup.
- Grant or revoke capabilities for individual users.
- Create and assign new custom capabilities.
- Remove user-defined capabilities when no longer needed.
Whether you’re building a membership site, managing editorial permissions, or fine-tuning acce…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Simple and effective
by Vitor Carvalho·2 months ago·1 reply
This plugin is exactly in line with I think plugins should be: clear, one task only, well integrated without bloat meaningless UI elements that do nothing. That’s what I do with my plugins as well.
Simple and efficient
by dece2814·5 months ago·1 reply
I just needed to add the capabilities for specific users to edit the pages they own, which is not possible with the default Author role. This plugin made it really easy: I could clone the Author role into an “Author++” role with a bunch of additional capabilities and it was enough to let users edit their page, without giving them the much more powerful Editor role. Capabilities needed for this were:
- edit_pages
- edit_private_pages
- edit_published_pages
- publish_pages
Thank you a lot!
The best plugin for delete unwanted capabilities
by moisb·3 years ago
finally! Thank you so much for this! After testing several very complex and confusing user role plugins (which by the way just added more garbage to my wp_options table), I found “Roles & Capabilities”. It was all I needed to get rid of more than half the weight of the option “wp_user_roles” in the table “wp_options” that slowed down my wp-admin.
- This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by moisb.
Great & simple plugin
by dilszhan·5 years ago·1 reply
keep up the good work. thank you so much for your hard work.
A hidden gem
by rehhoff·5 years ago·1 reply
Coming from ‘Members’ which got bloated, this is just one of those hidden gems in the wordpress repository that is simple, clean bloatfree and just works.
Keep it up. 🙂
- This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by rehhoff.
Download Trends
Today: 32Yesterday: 14This week: 133Period total: 9K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1.14
- WordPress 6.9 compatibility check
- Added blueprint.json to enable Live Preview support.
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