The best WordPress membership and user role editor plugin. User Roles & Capabilities editor helps you restrict content in just a few clicks.

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<p>Members is a roles and capabilities based WordPress membership plugin. It gives your users the ultimate member experience by giving you powerful tools to add roles and capabilities and assign them to your users.</p>
<p>Members allows you to set permissions to restrict content on your site by providing a simple user interface (UI) for WordPress’ powerful roles and capabilities system, which has traditionally only been available to developers who know how to code this by hand.</p>
<h3>Plugin Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Role Editor:</strong> Allows you to edit, create, and delete roles as well as capabilities for these roles.</li>
<li><strong>Multiple User Roles:</strong> Give one, two, or even more roles to any user.</li>
<li><strong>Explicitly Deny Capabilities:</strong> Deny specific capabilities to specific user roles.</li>
<li><strong>Clone Roles:</strong> Build a new role by cloning an existing role.</li>
<li><strong>Role Import / Export:</strong> Export all roles and Members settings to a JSON file, export selected roles from the roles table, and preview imported roles before choosing whether to import, skip, overwrite, or rename each one.</li>
<li><strong>Content Permissions / Restricted Content:</strong> Protect content to determine which users (by role) have access to post content.</li>
<li><strong>Shortcodes:</strong> Shortcodes to control who has access to content.</li>
<li><strong>Widgets:</strong> A login form widget and users widget to show in your theme’s sidebars.</li>
<li><strong>Private Site:</strong> You can make your site and its feed completely private if you want.</li>
<li><strong>Administrator Rescue (Magic Link):</strong> If you lose access to the WordPress admin (e.g. after editing roles), you can request a secure, time-limited link by email to restore your Administrator role and Members capabilities—no support ticket or database access required.</li>
<li><strong>Plugin Integration:</strong> Members is highly recommended by other WordPress developers. Many existing plugins integrate their custom roles and capabilities directly into it.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Seamless MemberPress Integration</h4>
<p>If you’re looking to build a business out of your membership site by creating paid memberships there’s no better way than to <a href="https://memberpress.com/plans/pricing/?utm_source=members_plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme&utm_content=integration_1" rel="nofollow ugc">use MemberPress</a>. Members and <a href="https://memberpress.com/plans/pricing/?utm_source=members_plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme&utm_content=integration_2" rel="nofollow ugc">MemberPress</a> work together to provide the ultimate member experience and will help you start and profit from your amazing WordPress membership sites!</p>
<h4>All Add-ons are now included</h4>
<p>Members now includes ALL of it’s add-ons completely free of charge! Here are some of the awesome features they add to Members:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Block Permissions:</strong> Allows site owners to hide or show blocks based on user logged-in status, user role, or capability.</li>
<li><strong>Privacy Caps:</strong> Creates additional capabilities for control over WordPressâ€™ privacy and personal data features (GDPR).</li>
<li><strong>Admin Access:</strong> Allows site administrators to control which users have access to the WordPress admin via role.</li>
<li><strong>Core Create Caps:</strong> Adds the create_posts and create_pages caps to posts/pages to separate them from their edit_* counterparts, providing more flexible editing capabilities.</li>
<li><strong>Categories and Tag Caps:</strong> The Category and Tag Caps add-on creates custom capabilities for the core category and post tag taxonomies. This allows site owners to have precise control over who can manage, edit, delete, or assign categories/tags.</li>
<li><strong>Role Levels:</strong> Exposes the old user levels system, which fixes the WordPress author drop-down bug when users don’t have a role with one of the assigned levels.</li>
<li><strong>Role Hierarchy:</strong> Creates a hierarchical roles system.</li>
<li><strong>ACF Integration:</strong> Creates custom capabilities for the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin for managing with the Members plugin.</li>
<li><strong>EDD Integration:</strong> Integrates the Easy Digital Downloads plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager.</li>
<li><strong>GiveWP Integration:</strong> Integrates the GiveWP and GiveWP Recurring Donations plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager.</li>
<li><strong>Meta Box Integration:</strong> Integrates the Meta Box plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Integration:</strong> Integrates the WooCommerce plugin capabilities into the Members plugin’s role manager.</li>
</ul>
<p>For more info, visit the <a href="https://members-plugin.com/?utm_source=members_plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme&utm_content=learn_more" rel="nofollow ugc">Members plugin home page</a>.</p>
<h3>Like this plugin?</h3>
<p>The Members plugin is a massive project with 1,000s of lines of code to maintain. A major update can take weeks or months of work. We don’t make any money directly from this plugin while other, similar plugins charge substantial fees to even download them or get updates. Please consider helping the cause by:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://memberpress.com/?utm_source=members_plugin&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=readme&utm_content=memberpress_upgrade" rel="nofollow ugc">Adding MemberPress</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/members/reviews/?filter=5#new-post" rel="ugc">Rating the plugin</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<p><a href="https://members-plugin.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read the full documentation</a></p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>If you need plugin support from us, you can <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/members/" rel="ugc">visit our support page</a>.</p>
<h3>Plugin Development</h3>
<p>If you’re a theme author, plugin author, or just a code hobbyist, you can follow the development of this plugin on it’s <a href="https://github.com/caseproof/members" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a>.</p>


Members – Membership & User Role Editor Plugin

Works fine and helped me a lot. 

Of course it can be improved, I'd suggest some checkbox to choose all options with one click. 

Cheers, 
keep the great job.

Great plugin


Easy to configure, simple to use, does the job it's supposed to do. Thank you!


Works great!

The best WordPress Plugin to manage user roles

Easy to Use

Excellent plugin


This is exactly what I needed! Works great!



This is the easiest way to add capabilities to existing roles but beware. If you start experimenting with adding a lot of capabilities to a role and forget which capabilities you added, there is no easy way (at least that I have found) for reverting the capabilities back to the way you found them. Even disabling the plugin or uninstalling it will not do the trick. A Revert button would be an awesome addition!



Also, though it says it supports multisite (WPMU / Network) sites, I cannot see how it works. It does not show a superadmin user. Nothing I have tried in terms of removing permissions does anything in the administrator role, which I assume is not superadministrator. There is no documentation on this so I am looking for another solution on multisite.


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