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title: Adding Multiple Roles to a User
description: "By default, there are five users roles in WordPress. Everyone with an account on your site will be placed into one of these five roles: Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor, Administrator. It is possible to place users into multiple roles thanks…"
url: "https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/adding-multiple-roles-to-a-user/"
updated: "2025-01-22"
category: PublishPress Capabilities / Roles
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# Adding Multiple Roles to a User

By default, there are five users roles in WordPress. Everyone with an account on your site will be placed into one of these five roles: Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor, Administrator.

It is possible to place users into multiple roles thanks to the [PublishPress Capabilities](https://publishpress.com/links/capabilities) plugin.

- Install the [PublishPress Capabilities](https://publishpress.com/links/capabilities) plugin.
- Go to Setting > Roles and make sure you enabled both settings.

![Multiple Roles](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/multiple-role-setting-1024x365.png)

- Go to the "Users" link in your WordPress admin menu.
- Either edit existing users or create new users.
- The "Role" field will now be able to accept more than one choice:

![Multiple Roles](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/multiple-roles-1024x535.png)
Multiple Roles