Title: User Role Editor Author: Vladimir Garagulya Published: mart 22, 2010 Last modified: awgust 19, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/user-role-editor/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=1263116) ![](https://ps.w.org/user-role-editor/assets/icon-256x256.jpg?rev=1020390) # User Role Editor By [Vladimir Garagulya](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shinephp/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/user-role-editor.4.66.zip) [Live Preview](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/?preview=1) * [Details](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/#description) * [Reviews](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/#reviews) * [Installation](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/#installation) * [Development](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/user-role-editor/) ## Description User Role Editor WordPress plugin allows you to change user roles and capabilities easy. Just turn on check boxes of capabilities you wish to add to the selected role and click “Update” button to save your changes. That’s done. Add new roles and customize its capabilities according to your needs, from scratch of as a copy of other existing role. Unnecessary self-made role can be deleted if there are no users whom such role is assigned. Role assigned every new created user by default may be changed too. Capabilities could be assigned on per user basis. Multiple roles could be assigned to user simultaneously. You can add new capabilities and remove unnecessary capabilities which could be left from uninstalled plugins. Multi-site support is provided. To read more about ‘User Role Editor’ visit [this page](https://www.shinephp.com/user-role-editor-wordpress-plugin/) Do you need more functionality with quality support in a real time? Do you wish to remove advertisements from User Role Editor pages? [Buy Pro version](https://www.role-editor.com). [User Role Editor Pro](https://www.role-editor.com) includes extra modules: * Block selected admin menu items for role. * Hide selected front-end menu items for no logged-in visitors, logged-in users, roles. * Block selected widgets under “Appearance” menu for role. * Show widgets at front-end for selected roles. * Block selected meta boxes (dashboard, posts, pages, custom post types) for role. * “Export/Import” module. You can export user role to the local file and import it to any WordPress site or other sites of the multi-site WordPress network. * Roles and Users permissions management via Network Admin for multisite configuration. One click Synchronization to the whole network. * “Other roles access” module allows to define which other roles user with current role may see at WordPress: dropdown menus, e.g assign role to user editing user profile, etc. * Manage user access to editing posts/pages/custom post type using posts/pages, authors, taxonomies ID list. * Per plugin users access management for plugins activate/deactivate operations. * Per form users access management for Gravity Forms plugin. * Shortcode to show enclosed content to the users with selected roles only. * Posts and pages view restrictions for selected roles. * Admin back-end pages permissions viewer Pro version is advertisement free. Premium support is included. ### Additional Documentation You can find more information about “User Role Editor” plugin at [this page](http://www.shinephp.com/user-role-editor-wordpress-plugin/) I am ready to answer on your questions about plugin usage. Use [plugin page comments](http://www.shinephp.com/user-role-editor-wordpress-plugin/) for that. ## Screenshots [⌊screenshot-1.png User Role Editor main form⌉⌊screenshot-1.png User Role Editor main form⌉[ screenshot-1.png User Role Editor main form [⌊screenshot-2.png Add/Remove roles or capabilities⌉⌊screenshot-2.png Add/Remove roles or capabilities⌉[ screenshot-2.png Add/Remove roles or capabilities [⌊screenshot-3.png User Capabilities link⌉⌊screenshot-3.png User Capabilities link⌉[ screenshot-3.png User Capabilities link [⌊screenshot-4.png User Capabilities Editor⌉⌊screenshot-4.png User Capabilities Editor⌉[ screenshot-4.png User Capabilities Editor [⌊screenshot-5.png Bulk change role for users without roles⌉⌊screenshot-5.png Bulk change role for users without roles⌉[ screenshot-5.png Bulk change role for users without roles [⌊screenshot-6.png Assign multiple roles to the selected users⌉⌊screenshot-6.png Assign multiple roles to the selected users⌉[ screenshot-6.png Assign multiple roles to the selected users ## Installation Installation procedure: 1. Deactivate plugin if you have the previous version installed. 2. Extract “user-role-editor.zip” archive content to the “/wp-content/plugins/user- role-editor” directory. 3. Activate “User Role Editor” plugin via ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress admin menu. 4. Go to the “Users”-“User Role Editor” menu item and change your WordPress standard roles capabilities according to your needs. ## FAQ * Does it work with WordPress in multi-site environment? Yes, it works with WordPress multi-site. By default plugin works for every blog from your multi-site network as for locally installed blog. To update selected role globally for the Network you should turn on the “Apply to All Sites” checkbox. You should have superadmin privileges to use User Role Editor under WordPress multi-site. Pro version allows to manage roles of the whole network from the Netwok Admin. To read full FAQ section visit [this page](http://www.shinephp.com/user-role-editor-wordpress-plugin/#faq) at [shinephp.com](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/shinephp.com?output_format=md). ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3be3698e690d552f99b3f6a9291e4397955c7ead75fe354b184fc59e2ff3e5c1? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Essential capability manager for agencies](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/essential-capability-manager-for-agencies/)󠁿 [Jayron Castro](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jayroncastro/) iýul 24, 2026 If you need to manage custom roles or tweak specific capabilities for your clients, look no further. User Role Editor is lightweight, perfectly integrated into the WordPress core logic, and extremely reliable. It allows us to restrict client access safely without breaking site functionality. A 5-star, must-have plugin for any serious development environment. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/787c059daa93a1e8b3007b23e6e09bd20bdf9d216e19590b4e75f7716c818c1f? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Simple and works nicely](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-and-works-nicely-3/)󠁿 [Pk Gibson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pkgibson101/) iýun 25, 2025 This plugin is working well. Thank you for the developer who put lot of time into it. Very nice, lightest and most simple. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ad285c9c6df347efc8b9d48578975a12369f80d4098b64256e0f12647aa9a184? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Worked great for my site](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/worked-great-for-my-site/)󠁿 [indivisible](https://profiles.wordpress.org/indivisible/) aprel 22, 2025 I’m a DIY self learner, and had a great experience with URE. It has vast capabilities and is organized to make it easy to navigate and apply so many customizations. Very intuitive. On the one occasion I needed guidance, the tech support was quick, personal and a success. Highly recommend. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/395c1a499605c89a88323e4ec4bcd28e57cb331540ef8335b018564aa0b8f3e9? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Wont save capabilities for custom role](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wont-save-capabilities-for-custom-role/)󠁿 [jen000](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jen000/) aprel 16, 2025 I hate giving bad reviews as I know how much work goes into these plugins, often by one person. But we have wasted so much time and lost orders because of a known bug. I can see that others have reported this bug from at least 4 months ago. So I want to warn others. The whole point of us using this plugin was to create a custom role and to assign specific capabilities to that role. For a short while it worked so we launched the site. And then it stopped working and caused chaos. We have spent FOREVER trying to figure this out. We will be moving to a different plugin asap. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/567a1e75c45d8669ac2c52c569c72b56109e1efa64dc0ec8f320588dcf0a683f? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Didn’t work on multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/didnt-work-on-multisite/)󠁿 [shirax](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shirax/) mart 27, 2025 Didn’t break my site, it just doesn’t work. On multisite, trying to give user permissions to install plugins–as it indicated in settings that it could do that. Appears to uninstall cleanly, at least. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b09e2979dec4a0c4df7d94f6af851014b597d26120ea2a977ec064300059071f? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Plugin works great!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-works-great-90/)󠁿 [LambrosHatzini](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lambroshatzini/) noýabr 6, 2024 I’ve tried two other plugins to no avail. This one works great! [ Read all 288 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/user-role-editor/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “User Role Editor” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Vladimir Garagulya ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shinephp/) “User Role Editor” has been translated into 28 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/user-role-editor/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “User Role Editor” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/user-role-editor) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/user-role-editor/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/user-role-editor/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/user-role-editor/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/user-role-editor/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### [4.66] 19.08.2026 * Update: Marked as compatible with WordPress 7.1 * Required PHP version increased up to 7.4 * Required WordPress version increased up to 4.6 * Update: Plugin loading code is enhanced. * Update: Plugin does not use self-defined PHP global constants. Needed data moved inside classes. * Update: URE_Admin_Notice class output was escaped with esc_attr(), wp_kses_post() functions. * Security Fix: SQL queries in URE_Editor::direct_network_roles_update() and leave_roles_for_blog() are passed to $wpdb->prepare() with real %s placeholders. * Security Fix: URE_Editor::get_caps_columns_quant() now requires a valid nonce before writing a display-preference transient from $_POST, closing a minor CSRF gap. * Fix: URE_Protect_Admin used a bitwise “&” instead of a logical “&&” when checking a capabilities array, which could throw a PHP 8 TypeError; fixed to use “&&”, and the related IN() SQL clause is now hardened with array_map(‘absint’, …). * Update: nonce actions used on the Settings/Tools pages are now scoped per form( ure_settings_update, ure_addons_settings_update, ure_default_roles_update, ure_settings_ms_update, ure_settings_tools_exec) instead of one shared string. * Update: additional output escaping was added across URE_View, URE_Role_View and URE_Role_Additional_Options (role/capability slugs, wp_json_encode() instead of json_encode(), esc_url() on form actions), plus a defense-in-depth capability check in URE_Role_Additional_Options::save(). * Update: rel=”noopener noreferrer” was added to external links opened with target =”_new”. * Update: hardcoded text strings in the role editor toolbar are now translatable. * Fix: URE_Assign_Role used the %i SQL placeholder, which needs WordPress 6.2+, below the plugin’s declared minimum; replaced with direct interpolation of internal table names. * Fix: URE_Editor::reset_user_roles() had an unescaped wp_die() message; further output escaping (esc_url(), esc_html(), absint()) was added across URE_Base_Lib, URE_Editor, URE_User_Other_Roles and URE_User_View. * Fix: several request-var/database-result comparisons that could be bypassed by PHP type juggling are now strict, including URE_Grant_Roles::is_try_remove_admin_from_himself()’ s “can’t remove your own admin role” check. * Fix: URE_Base_Lib::set() now correctly rejects unknown properties instead of silently creating them; URE_View declares its $advert property explicitly. * Update: $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] is now validated and unslashed before sanitizing in URE_Lib::is_right_admin_path() and URE_User_Other_Roles::is_user_profile_extention_allowed(). * Update: posted role IDs are now sanitized (sanitize_key(), wp_unslash()) in URE_Editor, and its ‘object’/role-selection request parameters are constrained to known values. * Update: URE_Base_Lib::get_blog_ids() now uses get_sites() instead of a raw database query. * Update: URE_Capability::revoke_caps() now uses get_users() instead of a raw database query. * Update: URE_Protect_Admin::has_administrator_role() now uses user_can() instead of a raw database query. #### [4.65] 21.05.2026 * Update: Marked as compatible with WordPress 7.0 * Update: Pages markup are modified to correspond WordPress 7.0 CSS changes. * Update: “defined(‘ABSPATH’)” guard was added to all PHP files to exclude PHP files direct execution. * Update: sanitize_text_field(), sanitize_key(), sanitize_url() functions are used to secure user input before processing. * Update: _nonce field checking was added before data update in addition to test made already on the higher level. File changelog.txt contains the full list of changes. ## Meta * Version **4.66** * Last updated **5 gün ago** * Active installations **700,000+** * WordPress version ** 4.6 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Languages * [Arabic](https://ar.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Chinese (China)](https://cn.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Chinese (Taiwan)](https://tw.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Czech](https://cs.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Dutch (Belgium)](https://nl-be.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [English (Australia)](https://en-au.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [English (Canada)](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [English (New Zealand)](https://en-nz.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [English (South Africa)](https://en-za.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [French (France)](https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [German](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Hebrew](https://he.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Italian](https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Japanese](https://ja.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Korean](https://ko.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Polish](https://pl.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Portuguese (Brazil)](https://br.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Spanish (Colombia)](https://es-co.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Spanish (Mexico)](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Spanish (Venezuela)](https://ve.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Swedish](https://sv.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), [Turkish](https://tr.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/), and [Vietnamese](https://vi.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/user-role-editor) * Tags * [access](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/access/)[editor](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/editor/) [role](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/role/)[security](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/) [user](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/user/) * [Advanced View](https://tuk.wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.5 out of 5 stars. * [ 244 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/user-role-editor/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 10 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/user-role-editor/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 6 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/user-role-editor/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 4 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/user-role-editor/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 24 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/user-role-editor/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/user-role-editor/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/user-role-editor/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Vladimir Garagulya ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shinephp/) ## Support Issues resolved in last two months: 0 out of 1 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/user-role-editor/)