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User Role Editor
Version: 4.64.5
Description
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.
Try it out on your free TasteWP test site.
To read more about ‘User Role Editor’ visit this page at shinephp.com
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User Role Editor Pro includes extra modules:
- Block selected admin menu items for role.
- Hide selected front-end menu items for no logged-in visitors, logged-in users, roles.
- Block selected widgets under “Appearance” menu for role.
- Show widgets at front-end for selected roles.
- Block selected meta boxes (dashboard, posts, pages, custom post types) for role.
- “Export/Import” module. You can export user role to the local file and import it to any WordPress site or other sites of the multi-site WordPress network.
- Roles and Users permissions management via Network Admin for multisite configuration. One click Synchronization to the whole network.
- “Other roles access” module allows to define which other roles user with current role may see at WordPress: dropdown menus, e.g assign role to user editing user profile, etc.
- Manage user access to editing posts/pages/custom post type using posts/pages, authors, taxonomies ID list.
- Per plugin users access management for plugins activate/deactivate operations.
- Per form users access management for Gravity Forms plugin.
- Shortcode to show enclosed content to the users with selected roles only.
- Posts and pages view restrictions for selected roles.
- Admin back-end pages permissions viewer
Pro version is advertisement free. Premium support is included.
Additional Documentation
You can find more information about “User Role Editor” plugin at this page
I am ready to answer on your questions about plugin usage. Use plugin page comments for that.
Installation
Installation procedure:
- Deactivate plugin if you have the previous version installed.
- Extract “user-role-editor.zip” archive content to the “/wp-content/plugins/user-role-editor” directory.
- Activate “User Role Editor” plugin via ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress admin menu.
- Go to the “Users”-“User Role Editor” menu item and change your WordPress standard roles capabilities according to your needs.
Screenshots
screenshot-1.png User Role Editor main form
screenshot-2.png Add/Remove roles or capabilities
screenshot-3.png User Capabilities link
screenshot-4.png User Capabilities Editor
screenshot-5.png Bulk change role for users without roles
screenshot-6.png Assign multiple roles to the selected users
Faq
- Does it work with WordPress in multi-site environment?
Yes, it works with WordPress multi-site. By default plugin works for every blog from your multi-site network as for locally installed blog.
To update selected role globally for the Network you should turn on the “Apply to All Sites” checkbox. You should have superadmin privileges to use User Role Editor under WordPress multi-site.
Pro version allows to manage roles of the whole network from the Netwok Admin.
To read full FAQ section visit this page at shinephp.com.
Reviews
Didn't work on multisite
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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 
I've tried two other plugins to no avail. This one works great!
sadly give
By 
its set several user role randomly, and sadly the uninstall didnt fix
Broke my entire multisite
By 
Congratulations on this plugin. This destroyed my entire WP Multisite, so that the registration process could no longer assign the created websites to any user.
There was no way to fix this error. Really great. Maybe you should think about how you can better a) save changes and b) restore them BEFORE you make any changes at all.
A plugin like this should almost be banned!
Best user role editing plugin
By 
I like the simplicity of the UI making it easy to edit user roles.
Works for me
By 
Used the free version and worked well for me. Thanks developer!
Does not appear to copy role 100%
By 
If a user has shop manager rights, I use ure to copy the role to a new role name, the user with the new role does not have the same rights as shop manager. Moving the user back to shop manager restores their rights ?
Not hiding the administrator account.
By 
The plugin need an update because showing last updated four months agao. WordPess has had a few updates since then. How ever it is hiding the superadmin account on a multisite but not on a normal site the main administrator account is still visiable. everything else is working normally. Needs a few more items adding to it so when you install another plugin the options will show for that to restrict. Could do with option to hid the option to change the password and email so when you have a demo website to prevent others from changing the email. I use another plugin that allows me to all of those things but none have the hide administrator accounts like this one.
THIS PLUGIN WILL BREAK YOUR SITE.
By 
I "safely" reverted the permissions before deactivating this plugin, as advised, but the permissions were NOT reverted.
THIS PLUGIN WILL BREAK YOUR SITE.
very good tool. perfect support.
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Tool works really well and the support is fast and friendly.
Changelog
[4.64.5] 16.04.2025
- Update: Marked as compatible with WordPress 6.8
- Update: Minor changes were applied to the CSS/JS loading code to minimize “Plugin Check” tool warnings.
- Plugin headers were extended at role-editor.php and readme.txt files according to wordpress.org recommendations.
[4.64.4] 15.12.2024
- Security Fix: Users – “Add Role”, “Revoke Role” buttons: Cross-Site request forgery to privilege escalation was possible due to missed nonce validation. This issue was discovered and responsibly reported by vgo0.
File changelog.txt contains the full list of changes.