What’s the Difference Between PublishPress Capabilities and PublishPress Permissions?

We provide two plugins that allow you to control who can access what on your WordPress site. This is simple way to understand the difference:

OK, that's maybe too simple, so here's more detail:

Here's an specific comparison using Posts:

  • PublishPress Capabilities allows you to control who can publish all your Posts.
  • PublishPress Permissions allows you to control who can publish Posts with a particular Status, Category or Tag, or even Posts without a specific Category or Tag.

Here's another specific comparison, this time using Pages:

  • PublishPress Capabilities allows you to control who can read all your Pages.
  • PublishPress Permissions allows you to control who can read Pages with a specific Status, Category or Tag, or even Pages with a particular parent Page.

There are many more differences between the two plugins, but hopefully this gives you a general guide: PublishPress Capabilities controls general access to WordPress features and is enough for 80% of sites. PublishPress Permissions goes much deeper and has advanced features that perhaps 20% of sites will need.