User Role Editor
User Role Editor WordPress plugin makes user roles and capabilities changing easy. Edit/add/delete WordPress user roles and capabilities.
4.5(287 reviews)
·700K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, User Role Editor is a WordPress role plugin with 700K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 287 reviews. It has been downloaded 21M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP 7.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Controlled Admin Access.
4.5/5287 reviews
700K+active installs
0%resolved
16 yearssince 2010
Overview
User Role Editor WordPress plugin allows you to change user roles and capabilities easy.
Just turn on check boxes of capabilities you wish to add to the selected role and click “Update” button to save your changes. That’s done.
Add new roles and customize its capabilities according to your needs, from scratch of as a copy of other existing role.
Unnecessary self-made role can be deleted if there are no users whom such role is assigned.
Role assigned every new created user by default may be changed too.
Capabilities could be assigned on per user basis. Multiple roles could be assigned to user simultaneously.
You can add new capabilities and remove unnecessary capabilities which could be left from uninstalled plugins.
Multi-site support is provided.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Simple and works nicely
by Pk Gibson·9 months ago
This plugin is working well. Thank you for the developer who put lot of time into it. Very nice, lightest and most simple.
Worked great for my site
by indivisible·11 months ago
I’m a DIY self learner, and had a great experience with URE. It has vast capabilities and is organized to make it easy to navigate and apply so many customizations. Very intuitive. On the one occasion I needed guidance, the tech support was quick, personal and a success. Highly recommend.
Wont save capabilities for custom role
by jen000·11 months ago
I hate giving bad reviews as I know how much work goes into these plugins, often by one person. But we have wasted so much time and lost orders because of a known bug. I can see that others have reported this bug from at least 4 months ago. So I want to warn others. The whole point of us using this plugin was to create a custom role and to assign specific capabilities to that role. For a short while it worked so we launched the site. And then it stopped working and caused chaos. We have spent FOREVER trying to figure this out. We will be moving to a different plugin asap.
Didn’t work on multisite
by shirax·1 year ago
Didn’t break my site, it just doesn’t work. On multisite, trying to give user permissions to install plugins–as it indicated in settings that it could do that. Appears to uninstall cleanly, at least.
Plugin works great!
by LambrosHatzini·1 year ago
I’ve tried two other plugins to no avail. This one works great!
Download Trends
Today: 2KYesterday: 2KThis week: 14KPeriod total: 1.4M
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.3+ required |
Version Adoption
v4.64
81.6%
Other
18.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
[4.64.6] 01.12.2025
- Update: Marked as compatible with WordPress 6.9
- Update: Minor code enhancements according to the “Plugin Check” tool recommendations.
- Update: “Users->Grant Roles” HTML code download optimization to exclude cases when URE’s “Grant Roles” data flickers or stays visible while Users page is opening.
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