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Top 3 Plugins To Add Or Remove User Role Capabilities In WordPress

Each user has its own capabilities like author can only publish and edit its own posts where as an editor gets the charge of all published content, subscribers can only comment and administrators have the complete charge of website. However, if you are working on your client’s website then in that sometimes you like removing and adding certain permissions to user roles, create new user roles etc as per the demand of your client. Other than this website owners running a multi-author blogging site, also sometimes require editing capabilities of certain user roles or create some new user roles with custom capabilities. Whatsoever may be the reason. In this tutorial we are providing you a list of three cool plugin you can use for creating and editing user roles. All plugins are good and tested on recent WordPress release of 3.8.1.

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Administrator Type User Role Excluding The Capability To Manage Plugins And Change Themes In WordPress

The tutorial is on adding a new Webmaster user role which comes in between your site Administrator and Editor. This user is same as site Administrator but it excludes some capabilities like managing plugins, changing themes. Users with this role will not be able to install or activate any theme or plugin. They can change the widgets, edit theme options like background, header images etc if your theme provides and do all other things which a site admin does.

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Hide WordPress Admin Area From Specified User Roles And Allow Them Edit Their Settings From Frontend

There are already many WordPress plugins available that allows you hide admin area section from your websitesubscribers but this tutorial is about a different plugin that lets you hide admin area from the roles specified by you, another useful functionality of this plugin is that you can allows your subscribers to edit their settings direct from the frontend of your WordPress site.

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Extend Control Over WordPress User Management With Members Plugin

Easily manage your WordPress site user roles, capabilities  permission for content and use shortcodes to control access to the content or make your site and its feed completely private. I already reviewed User Role Editor plugin and now this new Members plugin provides you with more new features. Foundation of Members plugin is its extensive role and capability management system.

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