Description

User Role plugin makes it easy to manage your WordPress website role capabilities. Add new and manage existing user roles. Quickly control what users can and cannot do on your website.

Change role name, copy permissions from another role, and other great features. Extend the default user management features today!

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Free Features

View information about each role
Manage role capabilities
Copy capabilities from another role
Change role name
Recover any role to capabilities set before the plugin was installed
Compatible with latest WordPress version
Incredibly simple settings for fast setup without modifying code
Detailed step-by-step documentation and videos
Multilingual and RTL ready

Pro Features

All features from Free version included plus:

Add and manage unlimited custom user roles

Enable/disable access to certain plugins and Dashboard menu items

Reset standard WordPress roles capabilities to default

Сonfigure all subsites on the network

Get answer to your support question within one business day (Support Policy)

Upgrade to Pro Now

If you have a feature suggestion or idea you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love to hear about it! Suggest a Feature

Documentation & Videos

Help & Support

Visit our Help Center if you have any questions, our friendly Support Team is happy to help – https://support.bestwebsoft.com/

Affiliate Program

Earn 20% commission by selling the premium WordPress plugins and themes by BestWebSoft — https://bestwebsoft.com/affiliate/

Translation

Belarusian (be_BY) (thanks to UStarCash, www.ustarcash.com)
Czech (cz_CZ) (thanks to Cathy, www.cathydoesloans.com)
Italian (it_IT) (thanks to Cathy, www.cathydoesloans.com)
French (fr_FR) (thanks to Cathy, www.cathydoesloans.com)
German (de_DE) (thanks to Marcel Leonhard www.mleonhard.info)
Russian (ru_RU)
Serbian (sr_RS) (thanks to Andrijana Nikolic, www.webhostinggeeks.com)
Ukrainian (uk)

Some of these translations are not complete. We are constantly adding new features which should be translated. If you would like to create your own language pack or update the existing one, you can send the text of PO and MO files to BestWebSoft and we’ll add it to the plugin. You can download the latest version of the program for work with PO and MO files Poedit.

Recommended Plugins

Updater – Automatically check and update WordPress website core with all installed plugins and themes to the latest versions.

Screenshots

Roles page.
Edit administrator`s role page.
Edit subscriber`s role page.
Roles page for network admin panel.
Edit administrator`s role page on network admin panel.

Installation

Deactivate the plugin if you have the previous version installed.
Extract “user-role.zip” archive content to the “/wp-content/plugins/user-role” directory.
Activate User Role plugin via ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress admin menu.

View a Step-by-step Instruction on User Role Installation

FAQ

What settings will be restored if I click on the Recover link?

Roles will be restored to capabilities that were set at the time of the plugin activation. If the role was created after plugin activation, then it will be restored to capabilities that were set at the time of the role creation.

When I delete the User Role plugin will the settings of privileges be changed back?

Yes. They will be recovered.

I have some problems with the plugin’s work. What Information should I provide to receive proper support?

Please make sure that the problem hasn’t been discussed yet on our forum (https://support.bestwebsoft.com). If no, please provide the following data along with your problem’s description:

the link to the page where the problem occurs
the name of the plugin and its version. If you are using a pro version – your order number.
the version of your WordPress installation
copy and paste into the message your system status report. Please read more here: Instruction on System Status

Reviews

tolkodelo April 12, 2022 1 reply

Plugin description reads, "Add new and manage existing user roles." The plugin does not allow this unless you purchase a pro version. So... Better use the Force, Luke (or at least some other plugin). Unchecking the 'Show pro options' setting only hides the contents of the 'Add new role' page.

knofy November 13, 2020

after initial problems, the team solved all problems. Thank you for that.

deleted February 12, 2020

This plugin does not allow you to delete roles. At least not in 2020

askom99 June 6, 2018

Well done! The only one that does not conflict with the other plugins!Great job!

peaksmedia November 29, 2016 1 reply

If you want to create a new user role you need the pro version - this was the only reason I needed this plugin, hence the low rating.

ajawadger September 3, 2016

Very useful, thanks for the great job.

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Contributors & Developers

“User Role by BestWebSoft – Add and Customize Roles and Capabilities in WordPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

bestwebsoft

“User Role by BestWebSoft – Add and Customize Roles and Capabilities in WordPress” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “User Role by BestWebSoft – Add and Customize Roles and Capabilities in WordPress” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

V1.6.8 – 21.04.2023

Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 6.2.
Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
Bugfix : Notice and Warnings issues have been fixed.
Bugfix : Multisite issues have been fixed.

V1.6.7 – 23.02.2022

Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 6.1.1.
Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
Bugfix : Security issues have been fixed.

V1.6.6 – 10.07.2022

Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 6.0.
Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
PRO : The issue with role recover has been fixed.
Bugfix : The issue with role capabilities copy has been fixed.

V1.6.5 – 21.12.2021

Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 5.8.2.
Update : BWS Panel section was updated.

V1.6.4 – 02.07.2021

Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 5.7.2.
Update : BWS Panel section was updated.

V1.6.3 – 09.10.2020

Update : The plugin settings page was changed.
Update : BWS Panel section was updated.

V1.6.2 – 04.09.2019

Update: The deactivation feedback has been changed. Misleading buttons have been removed.

V1.6.1 – 16.07.2019

Bugfix : Fixed small bugs.

V1.6.0 – 11.03.2019

PRO : An ability to enable/disable access to certain plugins and Dashboard menu items was added.
Bugfix : Fixed small bugs.

V1.5.9 – 21.12.2018

Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.0.2.
Bugfix : Fixed small bugs.

V1.5.8 – 10.01.2018

Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 4.9.1.
Bugfix : Options removal from the database when working on a multisite network has been fixed.

V1.5.7 – 13.07.2017

Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 4.8.

V1.5.6 – 14.04.2017

Bugfix : Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was fixed.
NEW : German language file was added.

V1.5.5 – 03.10.2016

NEW : The Italian language file was added.
NEW : The Czech language file was added.
NEW : The French language file was added.

V1.5.4 – 09.08.2016

NEW : The Belarusian language file was added.
Update : All functionality for WordPress 4.6 was updated.

V1.5.3 – 28.06.2016

Update : BWS panel section is updated.

V1.5.2 – 25.04.2016

Bugfix : Security Vulnerability was fixed.

V1.5.1 – 06.04.2016

Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 4.4.2.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.5.0 – 04.12.2015

Bugfix : The bug with plugin menu duplicating was fixed.

V1.4.9 – 04.11.2015

New : We added the edit role page.
New : We added the ability to copy capabilities from another role.
New : We added the ability to change the role name.
Bugfix : We fixed bug with displaying of custom capabilities.
Update : We update the page of displaying the list of roles.
Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 4.3.1.
Update : We removed functionality of Interface v2.

V1.4.8 – 15.07.2015

Update : Input maxlength is added.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.4.7 – 22.05.2015

Bugfix : We fixed plugins work with Table view on the Network.
Bugfix : We fixed the selection of current role when switching between view modes on the Network.
Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 4.2.2.

V1.4.6 – 27.03.2015

Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 4.1.1.

V1.4.5 – 09.01.2015

Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 4.1.

V1.4.4 – 13.11.2014

Bugfix : Plugin optimization is done.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.4.3 – 17.09.2014

Bugfix : Bug with disappearing of capabilities from the list was fixed.
Bugfix : When plugin is deleted the roles are restored to the capabilities that were before the plugin was installed.
Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 4.0.

V1.4.2 – 08.08.2014

Update : We updated all functionality for WordPress 4.0-beta3.
Budfix : The bug with breaking words is fixed.
Budfix : Security Exploit was fixed.

V1.4.1 – 22.05.2014

Bugfix : Problem with Masonry in WordPress versions below 3.9 on the plugin settings page is fixed.

V1.4 – 01.04.2014

Bugfix : Repair roles and save roles functions were refactored.
Bugfix : Small css and js bugs were fixed.
New : Screenshots were remade.

V1.3 – 26.03.2014

Bugfix : Code refactored.
NEW : Essential interface remade.

V1.2 – 20.03.2014

Bugfix : Code was refactored.
NEW : Screenshots were remade.
NEW : Plugin name was changed.

V1.1 – 18.03.2014

Bugfix : Capabilities print bug was fixed when new settings saved.
NEW : Screenshots were remade.
NEW : Status message was added if multiple roles recovered.

V1.0 – 13.03.2014

Bugfix : Interface version 2 tab was deleted from single blog WordPress installation.
NEW : Css-style was added for Internet Explorer 10.