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- Installs
- 5+ million
- Rating
- 4.7 (5K)
- Updated
- 31 days ago
WPFront User Role Editor
Easily allows you to manage WordPress user roles. You can create, edit, delete and manage capabilities, also copy existing roles.
- Active installs
- 30,000+
- #974 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 1M
- 1,001,953
- Downloads, 30 days
- 5.8K
- 1.4K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.5 / 5
- 65 reviews
- Last updated
- 2 months ago
- Aug 19, 2026
- Version
- 4.2.5
- 36 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | August 19, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.1 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.0 or newer |
| First published | March 2, 2014 |
| Support, last two months | No threads opened |
Reviews
4.5 / 5 from 65 reviews
| 5 stars | 53 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 4 |
| 3 stars | 3 |
| 2 stars | 0 |
| 1 star | 5 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
WPFront User Role Editor plugin allows you to easily manage WordPress user roles within your site.
You can create, edit or delete user roles and manage role capabilities.
Features
- Create new roles.
- Edit or rename existing roles.
- Clone existing roles.
- Manage capabilities.
- Allows you to add role capabilities.
- Change default user role.
- Add or Remove capabilities.
- Restore role.
- Assign multiple roles.
- Migrate users.
- Navigation menu permissions basic.
- Widget permissions basic.
- Login redirect basic.
- Admin menu editor. [PRO]
- Media library permissions. [PRO]
- User level permissions. [PRO]
- Navigation menu permissions advanced. [PRO]
- Widget permissions advanced. [PRO]
- Login redirect advanced. [PRO]
- Post/Page extended permissions. [PRO]
- Custom post type permissions. [PRO]
- Content restriction shortcodes. [PRO]
- Import/Export. [PRO]
- Multisite support. [PRO]
Compare User Role Editor Pro
Spanish tutorial
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
WPFront User Role Editor and GDPR compliance?
This plugin doesn’t collect any personal information. For more information please visit GDPR compliance.
Latest changelog entry
- WP 7.1 compatibility fixes.
- Assign/Migrate users functionality also requires edit_users capability.
Screenshots
Roles list 
Settings 
Assign / Migrate users 
Custom post type permissions
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.