User Roles & Capabilities The administrator of a blog can assign a different role to each user; the assigned role determines what capabilities or tasks that user can perform. WordPress 2 supports five roles: Subscriber is the lowest level role. A subscriber can only read the blog. Contributor can do what a Subscriber can do, as well as createbut not publishposts. Assign this role to someone you want to contribute content to the blog after approval. Author can do everything a Contributor can do, as well as upload files and publish posts. Editor can do everything an Author can do, plus edit posts and Pages, moderate comments, and modify categories and links (or bookmarks). Think of the Editor as the Administrator's helper. Administrator has complete control over the entire blog.
Table 1 shows how the WordPress capabilities are distributed among the roles. Table 1. Roles and Capabilities for WordPress UsersCapability | Administrator | Editor | Author | Contributor | Subscriber |
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switch_themes |
| | | | | edit_themes |
| | | | | activate_plugins |
| | | | | edit_plugins |
| | | | | edit_users |
| | | | | edit_files |
| | | | | manage_options |
| | | | | import |
| | | | | moderate_comments |
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| | | | manage_categories |
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| | | | manage_links |
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| | | | unfiltered_html |
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| | | | edit_published posts |
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| | | | edit_others_posts |
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| | | | edit_pages |
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| | | | upload files |
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| | | publish_posts |
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| | | edit_posts |
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| | read |
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Warning! Tips | You can learn more about roles and capabilities in the WordPress Codex at codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities. The WordPress Codex lists an additional 11 capabilities, named level_0 through level_10. These capabilities apply to previous versions of WordPress and are supported for backwards compatibility.
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