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title: Elementor Capabilities
description: "The Elementor plugin is the leading WordPress website builder that empowers you to successfully build professional, pixel-perfect websites. With an intuitive drag and drop interface, you get complete control to build any type of website, without writing a single line…"
url: "https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/elementor-capabilities/"
updated: "2026-10-14"
category: WordPress Permissions / WordPress Plugins
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# Elementor Capabilities

The Elementor plugin is the leading WordPress website builder that empowers you to successfully build professional, pixel-perfect websites. With an intuitive drag and drop interface, you get complete control to build any type of website, without writing a single line of code.

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## About Elementor Plugin Capabilities

The Elementor plugin use a core WordPress capability to control user access:

- [edit_posts](https://publishpress.com/links/edit_posts)

However, the situation with Elementor is more complex than that because many key capabilities are only available in the commercial version: Elementor Pro. If you are using the free version of Elementor, you will have limited control over what your users can do. This screenshot below shows the "Role Manager" in the free version, with the Upgrade links.

![](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/elementor-capabilities-1024x505.png)

We do have guides to controlling access to some Elementor features:

- [How to Hide “Edit with Elementor” from the WordPress Admin Toolbar](https://publishpress.com/blog/hide-edit-with-elementor-from-toolbar/)
- [How to Control Access to Elementor Templates](https://publishpress.com/blog/capabilities/control-access-elementor-templates/)
- [How to Give Elementor Users Access to One Post](https://publishpress.com/blog/permissions/edit-permissions-elementor/)

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## How to Give Elementor Capabilities to User Roles

If you use the [PublishPress Capabilities](https://publishpress.com/links/capabilities) plugin, you can choose which user roles have some access to the Elementor plugin. Go to the "Capabilities" screen and click the "Editing" tab. You will be able to grant this capability to a new user role.

![Elementor plugin capabilities](https://publishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/edit-posts-1024x502.png)

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## Helpful link for Elementor Capabilities

- [The official Elementor plugin page](https://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor).