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

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

Christian Leuenberg

<p>This plugin helps you to hide certain parts of your content like a paragraph or an image etc. to logged-out users or users of any other role with just a simple shortcode.</p>
<p>Customize the shortcode in order to display a special note to your users, apply custom CSS classes for your own design or hide the restricted parts completely.</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>text within shortcode <code>[member][/member]</code> is not visible to anonymous users</li>
<li>hide content based on user roles (subscriber, contributor, author, editor, admin)</li>
<li>restricted text can be replaced with info text box</li>
<li>info text can be customized</li>
<li>comes with a handy TinyMCE button for quick access</li>
</ul>
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