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User Role Editor

By Vladimir Garagulya

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.

To read more about ‘User Role Editor’ visit this page at shinephp.com

Do you need more functionality with quality support in a real time? Do you wish to remove advertisements from User Role Editor pages?
Buy Pro version.
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.

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

Installation

Installation procedure:

  1. Deactivate plugin if you have the previous version installed.
  2. Extract “user-role-editor.zip” archive content to the “/wp-content/plugins/user-role-editor” directory.
  3. Activate “User Role Editor” plugin via ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress admin menu.
  4. Go to the “Users”-“User Role Editor” menu item and change your WordPress standard roles capabilities according to your needs.

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

Easy to assign people to multiple roles

Juni 1, 2021
This plugin works great with the Events Manager plugin we are using to allow people to sign up for classes only if they are registered with the "student" user role, and also to create a role just for managing such classes or events ("events manager" role). The Events Manager plugin was able to read the roles created by User Role Editor just fine, allowing me to grant permissions within either plugin. Other plugins that can read custom fields should work as well (but always test, test, test). I plan to use a plugin that can assign any role I choose to people who register via the plugin's form. Students, for example, will automatically be assigned to the "student" role, which will then enable them to book classes. "Subscribers," on the other hand, will only get newsletters, but at the point where "subscribers" sign up to become "students," they will end up with both roles, meaning they still get the newsletter and also get classes. We will then be able to send out special mailings just for students without also sending them to subscribers who shouldn't get them. This approach saves us from a more manual - and time-consuming - handling of students and subscribers, and the same goes for handling what various volunteers will be able to do at the back end. Very simple to set up and quick to make changes if you decide to. Saved me a good deal of time getting permissions just right. Love it!

Great product

Méi 13, 2021
This does exactly what you would expect it does. Works great. We needed to hire an overseas developer for our site, but worried about giving them 100% admin rights, so with this we created a 'Developer' role and took away about 10 admin capabilities. Too easy.

Great Product supported with the BEST customer support

April 30, 2021
I have been using Role Editor PRO for years on many of the sites I manage. The plugin keeps getting better (if that is even possible) and Vladimir's customer support is second to none. He is the best and has always helped me out right away. This plugin has solved many of my unique user restriction needs. I will continue to use and add to my new sites. I whole-heartedly recommend this plugin. Great Plugin and Great Support. This is what all plugins should strive for.

Perfect for what I need

Nopémber 16, 2020
Put in a little effort nutting in through, and you have a perfect accompaniment to making Navigation Menus that ONLY appear to visitors, and ONLY appear to those logged in, and ONLY to those with certain roles, etc. Don't be limited to Subscriber, Author, Contributor roles, etc ... create more meaningful ones.

Hidden from view and locked out

Oktober 15, 2020
REVISED REVIEW: I solved the glitch mentioned below with a little help from the plugin developer. I was set to superadmin, and admin was the only role that could view the plugin tabs. I switched my role to admin, and I could use the plugin again. Great plugin. I just have to give it one tick down to 4 stars because elements of the UX of the plugin is confusing, but it does do the job. Thank you! OLD REVIEW: The plugin "disappeared" in the plugins area, but the files are still up on the server. And, now users with author permissions are locked out of their profile. This caused me some lost time and embarrassment digging myself out of trouble with my client.
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Contributors & Developers

“User Role Editor” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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“User Role Editor” has been translated into 23 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

[4.60.2] 20.09.2021

  • Update: Marked as compatible with WordPress 5.8.1
  • Fix: Multisite: URE_Editor::is_full_network_sync() returned FALSE, instead TRUE for the AJAX call, while call was made from the Network Admin (wp-admin/network/).

[4.60.1] 21.07.2021

  • Update: Marked as compatible with WordPress 5.8.
  • Fix: PHP Notice: Undefined property: URE_User_View::$multisite in /wp-content/plugins/user-role-editor/includes/classes/user-view.php on line 145

[4.60] 24.06.2021

  • New: Notification box was replaced with one based on the jpillora/nofifyjs jQuery plugin. It does not move down page content. It disappears automatically after 5 seconds. Click on it to remove it manually.
  • Fix: “Add capability” shows warning styled notification when needed (invalid characters, etc.) instead of a successful one.
  • Fix: Capabilities group uncheck and revert selection is blocked for the administrator role to exclude accident deletion of permissions from it.

File changelog.txt contains the full list of changes.

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Issues resolved in last two months:

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