User Role Editor: WordPress Plugin Tutorial

User Role Editor is a free plugin that lets you control exactly what each person can do on your WordPress site. This course shows you how to use User Role Editor to understand roles and capabilities, grant a specific permission, and build a custom role you can assign to a user. By the end you'll be able to fit permissions to your team instead of forcing your team into WordPress's five fixed roles.

What you'll learn

Real teams rarely fit the default WordPress roles — a bookkeeper, a guest writer, and a comment moderator each need a different slice of access. Learning the User Role Editor WordPress plugin lets you grant single capabilities and build custom roles, so people get exactly the permissions they need and nothing more. You'll come away able to tighten security and reduce mistakes by giving each user the right level of control.

Inside the course

• Roles, Capabilities & Why Custom Roles Beat "Just Make Them Admin"
• Install & the Role Editor Screen
• Tightening an Existing Role
• Creating a Custom Role
• Multiple Roles & Per-User Capabilities
• Client Handover Role & Contractor Role
• Settings, Tools & the Free / Pro Boundary

Who this course is for

This is for site owners and admins managing multiple users, clients, or contributors who need more than the built-in roles allow. It helps to understand the standard WordPress roles first, but the course explains the core ideas as it goes. Our free written tutorials are a good reference alongside it.

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