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User Roles and Capabilities

Manage user roles and Capabilities, create new roles and change default role.

By mahabub81·User Roles·Free
4.8(21 reviews)
·8.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 years ago
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As of April 2026, User Roles and Capabilities is a WordPress user roles plugin with 8.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 21 reviews. It has been downloaded 125K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 4 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 47% this week. Top alternative: PublishPress Capabilities – User Role….

4.8/521 reviews
8.0K+active installs
125K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015

Overview

manage user roles and capabilities. Create new roles and delete existing roles. Using this plugin you will not be able to modify any capabilities for administrator user role.
WordPress built in roles cant be deleted.
If you find any issue just let us know we will get back to you with the fix in 24 hours.

Features of Roles and Capabilities

  • Fully tested by QA team.
  • Create new roles.
  • Delete existing roles.
  • Clone existing roles.
  • Rename Role
  • Import / Export Roles and Capabilities
  • Manage user Capabilities.
  • set permission.
  • Change default user role.
  • Assign multiple roles to users.
  • set permissions / capabilities to users.
  • single screen to manage capability for all roles.
  • easy to use.
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

4.821 reviews
5 ★
20
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3 ★
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1 ★
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Recent Reviews

The best so far.
by Cristian J. Hidalgo·2 years ago

There’s nothing like this out there. Recommended.

Nice and easy to use
by felicesinger·3 years ago

I’ve tried many user role plugins…but this one is the easiest to use and straight forward…love it! Well done!

Save button is gone?
by pixel·5 years ago

“Change roles and capabilities for user” in page, button is gone! Changes not saved 🙁

Genial
by Francisco_InstaTienda·5 years ago

Aunque no este actualizado, no es un problema cumple su función a la perfección, muchísimas gracias.

Free & Awesome
by gohar2·6 years ago

It’s supporting custom post types in free version. No one is offering this feature in free plugin. Highly recommended.

Download Trends

Today: 9Yesterday: 10This week: 81Period total: 5K

Compatibility

WordPress3.5+ requiredTested up to 5.7.15
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v1.2
99.2%
v1.1
0.8%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.2.6

  • Fix the plugin update versioning issue
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

mahabub81mahabub81
Plugin Info
Version
1.2.6
Last Updated
May 9, 2021
WP Requires
3.5+
Tested Up To
5.7.15
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
8.0K+
Downloads
125K+
Added
Feb 3, 2015
Business
Free

Tags

user rolesuser capabilitieswordpress user rolesroles and capabilitieswordpress capabilities

Developer

M
mahabub81
1 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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