Access management

Managing Roles and Capabilities in WordPress

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About this video

See how AAM creates and edits WordPress roles, copies permissions, manages role inheritance, and grants or removes individual capabilities.

This tutorial walks through AAM’s built-in tools for managing WordPress roles and capabilities. It covers creating roles, copying permissions, setting up parent and child relationships, and overriding inherited access rules.

What you’ll see

  • Create and edit roles, including custom role IDs.
  • Copy capabilities and AAM settings from an existing role.
  • Search, create, grant, and remove WordPress capabilities.

For more detail, read Understanding WordPress roles and capabilities and WordPress role and capability naming conventions.