Best capabilities plugins for WordPress

Members

Up in the last 7 days:1#184

by Blair Williams9 days ago

The best WordPress membership and user role editor plugin. Edit roles, restrict content, and now manage it all with an AI assistant.

PublishPress Capabilities

Up in the last 7 days:1#463

by PublishPress25 days ago

User role editing for WordPress. Manage user roles, control capabilities and permissions, and restrict admin access for any role.

Restrict User Access

Up in the last 7 days:3#1,550

by Joachim Jensen1 day ago

Create Access Levels and restrict any post, page, category, etc. Supports bbPress, BuddyPress, WooCommerce, WPML, and more.

Roles & Capabilities

Down in the last 7 days:18#5,467

by Ariel10 months ago

Take full control of user roles and capabilities in WordPress with an intuitive, powerful interface.

User Role for Flamingo

Down in the last 7 days:9#7,810

by Yannick Zipf2 years ago

Configure special user role to access the flamingo contacts and messages wihtout admin permissions.

RoleMaster Suite

Down in the last 7 days:45#8,036

by Pixar Labs1 month ago

Create, manage, and assign WordPress user roles and capabilities with precision — ideal for e-commerce and membership sites.

Enable Contributor Uploads

Up in the last 7 days:27#10,518

by Equalize Digital8 months ago

Easy plugin which adds the capability for contributors to upload images to their blog posts.

Comment Moderation Role by WPBeginner

Down in the last 7 days:30#11,789

by WPBeginner7 months ago

Add a new comment moderator user role to your site.

Custom Access Roles

Down in the last 7 days:148#12,857

by Room 34 Creative Services, LLC4 months ago

Create custom roles with editing capability for only specific pages, categories and post types.

Map Cap

Down in the last 7 days:15#12,971

by thenbrent13 years ago

Control who can publish, edit and delete custom post types. Silly name, useful code.

User Switcher

Up in the last 7 days:43#14,984

by irenem10 years ago

A helper tool to help you switch between user account without logging in and out.

bbPress Capabilities

Up in the last 7 days:15#16,516

by John James Jacoby12 years ago

Advanced user capability editing, specifically for bbPress

Restrict Anonymous Access

Up in the last 7 days:63#18,761

by Christian Leuenberg6 days ago

Adds a shortcode to restrict content from anonymous users.

Zedna Maintenance Mode

Down in the last 7 days:204#24,134

by Radek Mezulanik6 years ago

Set you website under maintenance to lock content while development.

Digages Role Manager

#25,211

by Timileyin Olabajo1 month ago

Create custom WordPress roles, restrict admin menu access, manage allowed actions, and receive email alerts when restricted actions are attempted.

Op Custom API

Up in the last 7 days:6,449#36,465

by maiuoc7 years ago

The most powerful user, role, and capability management plugin for WordPress.

Conditional Logic Solutions (CLS)

Up in the last 7 days:2,018#36,746

by irenem11 years ago

The complete control solution for wordpress powered site.

Debug Bar Roles and Capabilities

#39,837

by Matthew Boynes12 years ago

A simple add-on for Debug Bar that tabulates all roles and capabilities

RoleMatrix

Up in the last 7 days:2,424#39,939

by Mohammadreza Maghsoudipour2 months ago

A powerful plugin to manage user roles, capabilities, and admin menu access with advanced URL restrictions.

mmbrs

#47,600

by benwills12 years ago

Restrict content access using shortcodes; based on roles, capabilities, user meta, and logged in status.

Access

Down in the last 7 days:8,231#48,058

by ryanve13 years ago

Control content access via a taxonomy that accepts user IDs, roles, or capabilities.

Titanium User Role Manager, Capabilities & Access Control

#48,177

by Admin Plugins1 month ago

Modern role editor, multiple roles, content control and smart role rules for WordPress.

Advanced User Role Manager

#60,189

by Smackcoders Inc.,6 months ago

Advanced WordPress user role management with custom roles, temporary assignments, and OAuth2 integration.

Resonanz User Role Permissions for Gravity Forms

Up in the last 7 days:10,927#61,447

by Resonanz Digital6 days ago

Give the Editor role access to Gravity Forms settings — per-capability checkboxes, no role manager required.

Arabdown Permissions

Down in the last 7 days:2,467#62,750

by asemalkamel3 months ago

Visual control over what each user role sees in WordPress: hide admin menus, plugins, widgets, and admin-bar items per role — with toggles, no code.

EffortLess Advanced Role Manager

Up in the last 7 days:2,425#63,607

by domclic27 days ago

The most beautiful, fast and modular role manager for WordPress. Control roles, capabilities, menus, widgets, and more.

JJCM Editor Theme Access for Kadence

Down in the last 7 days:628#64,002

by José Mendes1 month ago

Gives the Editor role the same access to the Kadence Customizer that an Administrator has, without ever writing anything to the database.

LangDesk

Up in the last 7 days:959#64,616

by Wolinka4 months ago

Assign languages to editors so each translator works only in their own language, with a clean per-language view. Built for Polylang.

Capveriq

Down in the last 7 days:8,132#65,113

by Muhammad Mujahid Sarfraz1 month ago

Find out why a WordPress user cannot access an admin page by inspecting roles, capabilities, menu requirements and runtime permission checks.

RoleCraft

#65,897

by Angelo Rocha2 months ago

Take control of WordPress with custom user roles, capabilities, admin menu access, widget control, and content restrictions in one plugin.

Sawir Role Capabilities Manager

Up in the last 7 days:3,329#66,034

by Ricardo Sawir3 days ago

Create custom user roles and manage capabilities for new and existing WordPress roles.

NSSD

#66,320

by Kazuwumin2 months ago

Organize the WordPress admin sidebar into role-based tabs and cards. Give each team a clean, curated dashboard instead of a cluttered menu.

Mandate App Security

Down in the last 7 days:11,502#66,566

by Paul4 months ago

WordPress Application Passwords carry the full access of their user. Mandate App Security adds per-credential policies to limit what each one may do.

LeanRoles

Down in the last 7 days:6,035#66,676

by David Marín Carreño (DaveFX)1 month ago

Audits what your user roles cost on every request, and adds user tags: label users without creating roles that grant nothing and weigh nothing.

SnippetDesk Role Access

Down in the last 7 days:2,229#66,981

by rat77581 month ago

Choose which user roles can see and edit each custom post type in the WordPress admin.

RoleVault

Down in the last 7 days:15,592#67,144

by Muhammad Shahbaz3 months ago

Advanced WordPress role manager, capability editor and user access control plugin with WooCommerce support.

CMC ROLE

#68,093

by Edem9 years ago

Manages User Roles

Reset Roles and Capabilities

Down in the last 7 days:12,547#68,572

by Francesco Taurino1 year ago

Resets WordPress Roles and Capabilities to their defaults and deactivates the plugin after the process is completed.

DashOrgNicer Feature Manager

Down in the last 7 days:3,969#70,219

by Anandhu Nadesh9 days ago

Disable or role-restrict WordPress admin features and menus.

BBA User Role Manager

Down in the last 7 days:6,711#70,344

by Amit Sharma2 months ago

Create custom WordPress user roles, manage selected capabilities, and safely review every registered role from one dashboard.

True Contributor Uploads Display Administrator

#70,362

by Ryo Uozumi2 years ago

This Plugin is only the administrator to be able to see the images uploaded by others.

Highland Software Custom Role Manager

Down in the last 7 days:15,810#70,670

by jgrodgers5 days ago

Manage multiple user roles, create custom roles, and control capabilities with an intuitive role builder.

AdBear Roles and Admin Access Manager

Down in the last 7 days:1,246#70,781

by Secil Kars4 months ago

Manage WordPress roles, admin menus, dashboard widgets, login redirects, ACF access, and wp-login branding by user role.

CC Admin Menu Control

Down in the last 7 days:14,648#71,497

by CC ADDONS22 days ago

Hide admin menu items per role, block their direct URLs, silence plugin pop-ups, restrict dashboard access and manage roles from one clean screen.

RoleArchitect

Down in the last 7 days:2,940#72,474

by byzgl3 months ago

Professional WordPress role and permission management. Design, build and control user access with architectural precision.

Content management control

Down in the last 7 days:23,386#73,422

by slayerh8 years ago

Allows administrator to restrict post editing.

DevAgent Admin Workspace

Down in the last 7 days:4,067#73,480

by devagent2 months ago

Build secure role-based workspaces with custom dashboards, admin menus, capabilities, quick actions and client-friendly navigation.

WPSwings Role Permission Editor

#73,556

by WP Swings1 month ago

A modern, single-plugin replacement for legacy role editors with visual capability matrix, audit log, and AI-powered features.

PinSwitch User Switcher

#74,212

by Nowshad Jawad2 months ago

Pin test users and switch between WordPress accounts in one click while developing plugins.