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Let’s get started by creating our new custom WordPress user roles.

In WordPress a user can have multiple roles, or just one. They can be used in addition to your current user roles, or they can replace them. It’s worth mentioning that WordPress custom roles have two implementation modes. This is functionality that is quite common for membership websites. For example user roles can be used in your theme or plugin to change visual aspects, such as menus or widgets or to hide or show content specific content.

But it also can be used to identify how your users interact with your site. That’s because they only allow user access when they have the right role. Working with custom WordPress user roles allows you to define specific user-access and to control what the different user types can do at the same time.Ĭustom user roles can be used in many ways in a WordPress site nat only to categorize different users but also it can be a security tool. Creating custom WordPress user roles is a great way to solve this problem, by giving users just the access that they should have. However there are some situations when you may want to use differentiate users, but you don’t want to grant them a subscriber or contributor role. By default WordPress comes with some build in user roles with an array of capabilities, you can learn more about the basics WordPress user roles and what they can do in more details in this article. In this tutorial we are going to look into how you can create, assign and bulk assign user roles programmatically without using a plugin.īy default, WordPress has user roles that can define the users’ access level and this is the main mechanism that WordPress uses to controls the content or requires different permissions or capabilities for the different roles.