Ariel

Jose Luis Chavez

<p><strong>Roles & Capabilities</strong> empowers administrators with a complete toolset for managing user roles and capabilities directly from the WordPress admin — no code required.</p>
<p>Designed for simplicity and control, this plugin allows you to customize user permissions to fit any use case. Access is strictly limited to site administrators for maximum security; no additional capabilities can grant access to its features.</p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Create and manage custom roles.</li>
<li>Edit role names and assign or remove capabilities.</li>
<li>Clone existing roles for faster setup.</li>
<li>Grant or revoke capabilities for individual users.</li>
<li>Create and assign new custom capabilities.</li>
<li>Remove user-defined capabilities when no longer needed.</li>
</ul>
<p>Whether you’re building a membership site, managing editorial permissions, or fine-tuning access, this plugin gives you the precision and flexibility you need.</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>This plugin is open-source and actively maintained.<br />
👉 <a href="https://github.com/arielhr1987/leira-roles" rel="nofollow ugc">View or contribute to the source code on GitHub</a></p>


Roles & Capabilities

Coming from 'Members' which got bloated, this is just one of those hidden gems in the wordpress repository that is simple, clean bloatfree and just works.

Keep it up. :)

A hidden gem


This plugin is exactly in line with I think plugins should be: clear, one task only, well integrated without bloat meaningless UI elements that do nothing. That's what I do with my plugins as well.


Simple and effective

Take full control of user roles and capabilities in WordPress with an intuitive, powerful interface.

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