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WPFront User Role Editor

by Syam Mohan

Version: 4.2.4

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Description

WPFront User Role Editor plugin allows you to easily manage WordPress user roles within your site.
You can create, edit or delete user roles and manage role capabilities.

Features

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Spanish tutorial

  1. Click Plugins/Add New from the WordPress admin panel
  2. Search for “WPFront User Role Editor” and install

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  1. Download the .zip package
  2. Unzip into the subdirectory ‘wpfront-user-role-editor’ within your local WordPress plugins directory
  3. Refresh plugin page and activate plugin
  4. Configure plugin using settings link under plugin name or by going to WPFront/User Role Editor
  1. Roles list

    Roles list

  2. Settings

    Settings

  3. Assign / Migrate users

    Assign / Migrate users

  4. Custom post type permissions

    Custom post type permissions

  5. Extended permissions

    Extended permissions

  6. Menu editor

    Menu editor

  7. Export roles

    Export roles

  8. Import roles

    Import roles

  9. Multisite sync roles

    Multisite sync roles

  10. Add new role

    Add new role

  11. Edit role

    Edit role

  12. Restore role

    Restore role

  13. Navigation menu permissions

    Navigation menu permissions

  14. Add or Remove capability

    Add or Remove capability

  15. Media library permissions

    Media library permissions

  16. Content restriction shortcodes

    Content restriction shortcodes

  17. Login redirect

    Login redirect

  18. User level permissions

    User level permissions

  19. Widget permissions

    Widget permissions

Please visit WPFront User Role Editor FAQ.

WPFront User Role Editor and GDPR compliance?

This plugin doesn’t collect any personal information. For more information please visit GDPR compliance.

Good plugin for basic tasks

By funcdesign on May 15, 2025

This is a good plugin for accomplishing basic tasks (that really should be default functionality in WordPress.) I needed to create a new user role that derived from the WooCommerce Customer user role and was able to do so fairly easily. A few things I'd like to see that would make this a five-star plugin:

  • Ability to directly clone an existing role to a new one (rather than create new role, and copy capabilities from existing role)
  • Some kind of integration of the WordPress capability documentation into the role editor - either each capability has a link to the relevant documentation section, or the documentation is brought directly into the plugin (pop up window?)
  • Bonus: It would be nice if the plugin could somehow identify what capabilities are provided by installed plugins, and which ones are leftover from a removed plugin. It would probably make more sense for WordPress core to manage this however (again necessitating this plugin's functionality be default.)

Like clockwork

By tufty on February 13, 2023

I've been using this for several years and it has worked like clockwork. No issues at all through the updates. I am a bit torn though for a new site as the new custom post and taxonomy type generation feature is pretty cool, but I've just made a custom plugin to create some and I prefer to keep functionality like that separate.

From Good to Really Bad - BE AWARE!

By Eli (RealAct) on August 25, 2022

This plugin has gone from great to really horrible. For over a year now since they updated the plugin from version 2.x to version 3.x the plugin causes our home page to show only a white blank page (No posts shown, only the sidebar shows up) for any registered/login members. This issue has been reported by others on their private forum as well. So we are stuck with old, outdated software that might become incompatible with WordPress at any time and/or contain security issues. We informed the developer about the issue last year, yet they did very little to help diagnose the issue. Their ONLY support was providing a link with help on how to turn debug mode on for their software, Yet the instructions provided do not work and the regular WordPress Debug mode also doesn't show anything relevant to the issue. They offered no farther help and to top it up, they have now closed down the support forum they have. Sorry WPFront I'm paying US dollars for your BROKEN software, you should at the very least had asked for login details to your customer's site and check issues yourself. You are VERY lazy and deserve no more money from me or anyone else. Be aware new costumers!, WPFront will NOT support you with your issues, but will be VERY QUICK to charge you a high yearly fee to continue using their broken software. I'm actively looking for alternative plugins that actually work to replace this ASAP.

Work Like Charm

By Deepak Tyagi (deepaktg) on July 8, 2022

It saves me a lot of time in user role.

Best user role plugin available

By naresh11381 on October 11, 2021

For me this has been the most reliable and efficient user role plugin I have used (I've tried many). Any site that requires editing or managing multiple roles should strongly consider this. The developer is also active and responsive which IMO is a key to a quality plugin. Happily recommend to others!

Promising, though not useful for multisite with a large number of subdomains

By wpsitessupport on October 1, 2021

Inability to automatically sync after creating a new subdomain without permissions, and inability to generate permissions with a new subdomain creation eliminates this plugin.

Is this plugin for WP 4.7 available?

By Jak (123456jk) on September 17, 2021

Looking for this plugin but it has to work with WordPress 4.7. Thank you.

Beautiful and Wonderful!

By Kelenwa (Uzoamaka) on July 29, 2019

With your plugin, everything is all simplified. It made my work very easy, highly manageable and straight. Thanks a million to all behind the amazing and magnificent plugin. So grateful!

Good plugin, but needs upgrade to support PHP 7.2

By raygulick on January 20, 2019

Great plugin, but currently (1/20/19) contains functions deprecated for PHP 7.2. Hopeful author will issue an update soon.

Perfect for my needs

By becaneweb on July 10, 2018

Bravo

4.2.4

  • Security issue fix.
  • WP 6.9 compatibility fix.

4.2.3

  • WP compatibility fix.

4.2.2

  • Security issue fix.

4.2.1

  • Set ‘Administrator’ role permissions in navigation menu permissions.
  • ACF, Woo and bbPress compatibility fixes.

4.2.0

  • Term level permissions.
  • Navigation menu permissions compatibility fixes.
  • Multisite settings defect fix.
  • Multisite propagate users defect fix.
  • Performance improvements.

4.1.1

  • Bug fix – Comment capabilities.
  • Bug fix – Export roles.

4.1.0

  • Security issue fixes.

4.0

  • Custom comment capabilities.
  • Impersonate/switch users.
  • Taxonomy based permissions.
  • Multisite – automatically sync users.
  • Security fixes.
  • Compatibility fixes.
  • Bug fixes.

3.3.0

  • Multisite – Sync roles, users and role assignments.
  • Manage comments using extended permissions.
  • Manage parent pages using extended permissions.
  • Sanitization and performance improvements.

3.2.1

  • XSS fixes.

3.2.0

  • Extended Permissions Precedence option.
  • Login page URL option.
  • Compatibility fixes.

3.1.0

  • Debug functionality added.
  • Assign/Migrate UI change.
  • Compatibility fixes.
  • Bug fixes.

3.0.0

  • Major update. Please test before upgrading.
  • Advanced extended permissions.
  • User post permissions.
  • Denied capabilities.
  • New menu editor.
  • Post Types UI.
  • Taxonomies UI.
  • And more…

2.14.4

  • Navigation menu UI compatibility fix for WP5.4.

2.14.3

  • Navigation menu UI bug fix.

2.14.2

  • [Important]Security vulnerability fix.

2.14.1

  • Logout redirect added.
  • Secondary roles on Add New User added.
  • Secondary role filters added. Documentation.

2.13.1

  • [Important]XSS fixes. Thanks to Burak @ security.nl & DefenseCode WebScanner.
  • Spelling corrections. Thanks to Eclipse Creative.
  • Update fails on some hosts are now resolved.
  • UI improvements.
  • License validation fixes.

2.13

  • Bulk edit extended permissions with single role. Documentation.
  • Override navigation menu permission setting. Documentation.
  • Disable extended permission setting. Documentation.
  • Widget permission bug fix.
  • Navigation menu permission bug fix.
  • Admin menu editor bug fix.
  • WP 4.6 compatibility fix.
  • PHP 7 compatibility.

2.12.5

  • Bug fixes.
  • Danish translation.

2.12.4

  • Plugin conflict fix.

2.12.3

  • WP 4.4 compatibility.
  • Extended permissions bug fix.
  • Performance improvements.

2.12.2

  • License fail info added.

2.12.1

  • License functions fallback handler.

2.12

2.11.3

  • CSS fix.

2.11.2

  • Navigation menu bug fix.

2.11.1

  • WP 4.3 Compatibility.

2.11

  • Bulk edit added. Documentation.
  • License form compatibility fix.

2.10.1.3

  • License recheck and activation email added.
  • Performance improvements.
  • Custom post type capabilities compatibility fix.
  • SSL verify compatibility fix.

2.10

2.9.3

  • Menu editor bug fix.
  • Menu editor WP4.2 compatibility fix.

2.9.1

  • Show toolbar inheritance bug fix.

2.9

  • Login redirect added. Documentation.
  • Assign roles compatibility fix.
  • Swedish translation added. Thanks to Elger.

2.8

2.7

  • Media library permissions added. Documentation.
  • Admin menu editor bug fix.

2.6.2

  • bbPress forum extended permissions bug fix.
  • Stability improvements.

2.6.1

  • Role permission column width removed.

2.6

2.5.1

  • Navigation menu permission setting added. Documentation.
  • IMPORTANT: Disable navigation menu permission, if you already have a Nav Menu permission plugin and if it stops working.
  • Navigation menu permission uninstall cleanup bug fix.

2.5

  • Navigation menu permissions added. Documentation.
  • Compatibility fix with “The Events Calendar”.

2.4

  • Gravity forms integration.
  • UI changes to make columns hidden on small screens.
  • Bug fix: Extended permissions not working in search results.
  • Portuguese (Brazil) language added.

2.3

  • Duplicator integration.
  • Performance fix. Thanks to Jezze.

2.2.1

  • Extended permissions bug fix.

2.2

  • Extended permissions enhanced with [Guest].
  • User profile secondary roles added.
  • UI enhancements.
  • Menu editor bug fix. Thanks to Marcus.
  • Multisite user assignment bug fix.

2.1

  • Custom post type permissions.
  • Bug fixes.

2.0

  • Removed ‘wpfront_’ from role capabilities.
  • Removed ‘Add role capabilities’. It is enabled by default.
  • Assign/Migrate users.
  • Bug fixes.

1.2

  • Restore role.
  • Bug fixes.

1.1

  • Edit deprecated capabilities.

1.0

  • Set new user default role.
  • Stability improvements.

0.3.1

  • Bug fixes.

0.3

  • Initial release.
  • Version:Version: 4.2.4
  • Active installs:Active installs: 40K
  • Last updated:Last updated: 2 days ago
  • Requires:Requires: 5.1
  • Tested:Tested: 6.8.3
Average rating:4.5 out of 5 stars.
  • Number of ratings: 53 ratings
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