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WordPress User Roles: The Complete Guide for Site Owners and Developers

Updated: May 25, 2026

You just hired a talented freelance writer to help scale your content marketing. You want them to log into your website, draft their posts, format the text, and get everything…

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Extending Role Capabilities in WordPress

Topics: WordPress

Updated: May 8, 2026

WordPress comes equipped with a standard user role management system granting permissions and actions limited to each role. In this tutorial, I provide a summary of the default roles and their capabilties in WordPress and demonstrate how to add capabilities to existing roles.