Dion Hulse

<p>On a large multisite network, granting a group of people the same role across many sites usually means adding each user to each site by hand — and remembering to remove them everywhere when they leave. User Teams turns that into:</p>
<ol>
<li>Create a team, pick a role.</li>
<li>Add the user to the team.</li>
<li>They have that role everywhere the team applies.</li>
<li>Remove them from the team <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> access is gone everywhere.</li>
</ol>
<p>User Teams is multisite-only by design — on a single-site install, native WordPress roles and capabilities already cover the whole feature set, so WordPress won’t offer it for activation there.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Teams with roles.</strong> Each team carries a WordPress role (editor, administrator, a custom role, or none).</li>
<li><strong>Runtime capability grants.</strong> Team access is added via the <code>user_has_cap</code> filter, so removing a user from a team drops their access on the next request — no stale capabilities usermeta to clean up.</li>
<li><strong>Multisite-native.</strong> Team definitions are real <code>wp_users</code> rows (“team accounts”), so <code>WP_Users_List_Table</code>, <code>is_user_member_of_blog()</code>, and every column-adding plugin “just work”.</li>
<li><strong>Site scoping.</strong> A team can apply network-wide (including sites added later) or to a specific list of sites, each with its own role.</li>
<li><strong>Admin UI.</strong> Network Admin <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Users <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Teams. Per-user checkboxes on the Edit User screen. Team rows with “— Team” markers on the Users list table.</li>
<li><strong>Cleans up after itself.</strong> Deleting a team removes its memberships. Deleting a user drops their memberships. Deleting a site removes its grants from any team that targeted it.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How access is granted</h4>
<p>Team-derived capabilities are merged in at runtime, never written into the member user’s own meta:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>user_has_cap</code> — adds the team role’s capabilities to the user’s effective caps, plus <code>role-{slug}</code> for plugins that check by role.</li>
<li><code>get_blogs_of_user</code> — adds team-linked sites to the user’s “My Sites” navigation.</li>
<li><code>get_user_metadata</code> — returns an empty-array <code>{prefix}{blog_id}_capabilities</code> for team members so <code>is_user_member_of_blog()</code> returns true without stamping real capabilities on the user. Workaround for <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65096" rel="nofollow ugc">Core #65096</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>The user’s actual <code>{prefix}capabilities</code> usermeta is never modified. That’s what makes team-based access instantly revocable.</p>
<h4>Capability requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>Managing teams (create / edit / delete) requires <code>manage_network_users</code> — super admin only.</li>
<li>Attaching an existing team to the current site uses <code>promote_users</code>, the same cap as inviting an individual user there.</li>
</ul>
<p>Team management is restricted to super admins so a compromised single-site admin can’t grant themselves access across the network.</p>
<h4>Extension filters</h4>
<ul>
<li><code>user_teams_team_caps_for_user( $caps, $user_id, $blog_id )</code> — modify the capability map computed from a user’s teams.</li>
<li><code>user_teams_team_applies_to_site( $applies, $team_id, $blog_id, $team )</code> — gate coverage (e.g. pause a team during a freeze).</li>
<li><code>user_teams_team_save_data( $data, $team_id_or_null, $op )</code> — filter sanitised input on create/update.</li>
</ul>


User Teams

Unix-style user groups for WordPress multisite. Create a team, give it a role, drop users in — access lights up across the network.

Melapress

<h3>Melapress Role Editor enables you to easily manage your WordPress user roles. Create, edit, and delete user roles like a pro thanks to the intuitive interface and wizards that hand-hold you every step of the way.</h3>
<p><a href="https://melapress.com/wordpress-user-roles-editor/?utm_source=wp+repo&utm_medium=repo+link&utm_campaign=wordpress_org&utm_content=mre" rel="nofollow ugc">Melapress Role Editor</a> comes with several features, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ability to create, edit, and delete custom user roles with ease</li>
<li>Granular post-based permissions, enabling you to allow edit access to one post but not another</li>
<li>Useful out-of-the-box custom roles</li>
<li>Backup and restore user role configurations</li>
<li>Auto-detect user role changes with restore prompt</li>
<li>Add users to multiple roles</li>
<li>Allow or Deny capabilities</li>
<li>Out-of-the-box support for Easy Digital Downloads, WooCommerce, and Yoast SEO</li>
<li>Capability of pretty names for easier referencing</li>
</ul>
<h3>Melapress Role Editor Benefits</h3>
<h4>Stress-free configuration with step-by-step wizards</h4>
<p>Melapress Role Editor makes it easy to manage roles thanks to its intuitive interface and wizards that walk you through the entire process. By using wizards, you can rest easy knowing that all necessary steps have been accounted for and nothing was missed. Of course, you can also edit roles manually if you wish.</p>
<h4>Increased security with auto change detection</h4>
<p>Melapress Role Editor keeps a record of each role’s capabilities for security and reliability. It alerts you whenever there is a change so that you can choose to restore roles to the previous configuration or accept the changes, keeping you in the driver’s seat at all times.</p>
<h4>Peace of mind with backups and restore</h4>
<p>Not sure if planned role changes will pan out? Don’t worry – simply take a backup of the existing configuration from within the plugin so that you can always restore a known working configuration should something break.</p>
<h4>Better guidance with out-of-the-box custom roles</h4>
<p>Melapress Role Editor comes with a number of pre-configured roles designed to help you get started quickly. Modeled after common roles in the WordPress business, such as Business owner, Developer, and HR manager, each role has been designed to respect the principle of least privilege while giving you a head start in configuring new custom roles.</p>
<h4>Simplify complexity with multiple roles and capability deny</h4>
<p>WordPress environments can get pretty complex, so we added features to accommodate every scenario. You can assign users multiple roles to avoid creating additional roles. You can also explicitly deny capabilities to ensure the utmost level of security in complex scenarios.</p>
<h3>MAINTAINED & SUPPORTED BY MELAPRESS</h3>
<p>Melapress builds high-quality niche WordPress security & management plugins, including WP Activity Log, WP 2FA, Melapress Login Security, and others.</p>
<p>Visit the <a href="https://melapress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Melapress website</a> for more information about the company and the plugins it develops.</p>
<h3>Install the plugin from within WordPress</h3>
<p>Managing roles is easy with Melapress Role Editor. Simply:</p>
<ol>
<li>Navigate to Plugins > Add New, from your WordPress dashboard</li>
<li>Search for Melapress Role Editor</li>
<li>Install & activate Melapress Role Editor from your Plugins page</li>
</ol>
<h3>Install the plugin manually (via file upload)</h3>
<ol>
<li>Download the plugin from the WordPress plugins repository</li>
<li>Unzip the zip file and upload the folder to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory</li>
<li>Activate melapress Role Editor through the Plugins page in WordPress</li>
</ol>
<h3>Translate the plugin in your own language</h3>
<p>If you want to help us translate this plugin in your own language please <a href="https://melapress.com/contact/?utm_source=wp+repo&utm_medium=repo+link&utm_campaign=wordpress_org&utm_content=mre" rel="nofollow ugc">contact us</a>. We will credit all translators.</p>


Melapress Role Editor

The complete WordPress user roles plugin for everyone

User Teams vs Melapress Role Editor