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General
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- How to Find the Latest Versions of PublishPress Plugins
- Changelogs for Free PublishPress Plugins
- Changelogs for PublishPress Authors
- Changelogs for PublishPress Blocks
- Changelogs for PublishPress Capabilities
- Changelogs for PublishPress Checklists
- Changelogs for PublishPress Future
- Changelogs for PublishPress Permissions
- Changelogs for PublishPress
- Changelogs for PublishPress Revisions
- Changelogs for PublishPress Series
- Changelogs for the PublishPress Theme
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PublishPress Authors
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PublishPress Blocks
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- Advanced Accordion Block
- Advanced Button Block
- Advanced Icon Block
- Advanced Image Block
- Advanced List Block
- Advanced Table Block
- Advanced Tabs Block
- Advanced Video Block
- Columns Manager Block
- Content Display Block
- Contact Form Block
- Countdown Block
- Count Up Block
- Images Slider Block
- Info Box Block
- Login / Register Form Block
- Map Block
- Newsletter Block
- Search Bar Block
- Social Links Block
- Summary Block
- Testimonial Block
- Woo Products Block
- Feature List block
- Pricing Table block
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PublishPress Capabilities
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- The Admin Menus Screen
- Control Access to WooCommerce Admin Menus
- Control Access to Contact Form 7 Admin Menus
- Control Access to Yoast SEO Admin Menus
- Control Access to Elementor Admin Menus
- Control Access to Jetpack Admin Menus
- Control Access to WPForms Admin Menus
- Control Access to The Events Calendar Admin Menus
- Control Access to Gravity Forms Admin Menus
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PublishPress Checklists
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- Number of characters in title
- Numbers of words in content
- Number of categories
- Number of tags or taxonomy terms
- Number of characters in excerpt
- Number of internal links in content
- Number of external links in content
- All links use a valid format
- ALT Text for all images
- Featured image
- Latin characters in permalink
- Approved by a user in this role
- Yoast SEO tasks
- WooCommerce product tasks
- Featured image height and width
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PublishPress Future
- Introduction to PublishPress Future
- Ways to Expire Posts
- Defaults for Post Types
- PublishPress Future Email Notifications
- Shortcodes to Show Expiration Date
- Automatic Footer Display for Expiry Dates
- Scheduling in PublishPress Future: Cron Jobs
- Technical Details for PublishPress Future
- Troubleshooting in PublishPress Future
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PublishPress
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- Getting Started With Notifications in PublishPress
- Understanding the PublishPress Notification Options
- Get PublishPress Notifications by Email or Slack
- How to Customize PublishPress Notifications With Shortcodes
- How to Use Reminder Notifications
- Notify Me: How to Manually Add Yourself to Notifications
- The PublishPress Notifications Log
- Hooks and Filters for Notifications
- Troubleshooting Email Notifications in PublishPress
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PublishPress Permissions
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- Control Access to Custom Post Types
- Control Viewing Access to Specific Categories
- Allow Editing of Specific Pages
- Force Users to Create Posts in a Category or Parent Page
- Block Users from Seeing Non-Editable Posts
- Control Viewing Permissions for WordPress Content
- Control Editing Permissions for WordPress Content
- Block Access to WordPress Category and Tag Archives
- Configure Who Can See Other People's Posts
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- Developer Information for Permission Groups
- PublishPress Permissions Database Tables and Settings
- pp_create_group()
- pp_delete_group()
- pp_get_group()
- pp_get_group_by_name()
- pp_get_metagroup
- pp_get_groups()
- pp_get_group_members()
- pp_get_groups_for_user()
- pp_add_group_user()
- pp_remove_group_user()
- pp_update_group_user()
- ppc_get_roles()
- ppc_assign_roles()
- ppc_get_exceptions()
- ppc_assign_exceptions()
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PublishPress Revisions
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- Does My Plugin Support PublishPress Revisions?
- A List of Some Plugins Supported by PublishPress Revisions
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and The Events Calendar
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and WooCommerce
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and Advanced Custom Fields
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and WPML
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and Custom Post Type UI
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and Yoast SEO
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and the PODS Framework
- Submit and Moderate Revisions with the Divi Theme
- Create Revisions Using an API
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and Elementor
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and Beaver Builder
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PublishPress Series
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PublishPress Theme
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How-to Guides
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- A WordPress Editorial Workflow for Writing, Reviewing and Publishing
- A WordPress Workflow for Editing and Reviewing
- Create a Workflow for University Departments in WordPress with PublishPress
- Create a Multi-Step Workflow in WordPress
- How to Create a Publishing Workflow for Authors in WordPress
- How to Get 2 People to Approve Content in WordPress
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- How to Allow WordPress Admin Area Access for WooCommerce Users
- How to Manage Permissions for WooCommerce Products
- Allow WooCommerce Users to Edit Only One Product
- How to Approve and Schedule Changes to WooCommerce Products
- WooCommerce Users Can Edit Products Only in Some Categories
- How Create WooCommerce Users Who Can Only View and Edit Products
- How to Create and Schedule Revisions for WooCommerce Products
- How to Control Who Can Duplicate WooCommerce Products
- Create WooCommerce Users Who Can Only View Reports
- How to Control Who Can Access WooCommerce Coupons
- How to Create WooCommerce Users Who Can Only View and Edit Orders
- How to Manage Permissions for WooCommerce Orders
- How to Control Permissions for WooCommerce Refunds
- How to Create Checklists with WooCommerce
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WordPress Permissions
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- activate_plugins
- add_users
- create_users
- delete_others_pages
- delete_others_posts
- delete_pages
- delete_posts
- delete_plugins
- delete_private_pages
- delete_private_posts
- delete_published_pages
- delete_published_posts
- delete_themes
- delete_users
- edit_dashboard
- edit_others_pages
- edit_others_posts
- edit_pages
- edit_plugins
- edit_posts
- edit_private_pages
- edit_private_posts
- edit_published_pages
- edit_published_posts
- edit_theme_options
- edit_themes
- edit_users
- erase_others_personal_data
- export
- export_others_personal_data
- import
- install_plugins
- install_themes
- list_users
- manage_categories
- manage_links
- manage_options
- manage_privacy_options
- moderate_comments
- promote_users
- read
- read_private_pages
- read_private_posts
- remove_users
- switch_themes
- unfiltered_html
- unfiltered_upload
- update_core
- update_plugins
- update_themes
- upload_files
Add a WordPress User to Multiple Roles
By default, there are five users roles in WordPress: Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor, Administrator.
However, it is possible to create new roles and you can also place users into more than one role.
In this tutorial, I'll explain how and why you can place WordPress users into multiple roles.
Video guide to more than one role for a user
Why Use Multiple Roles for One User?
A good example for multiple roles is WooCommerce. In the image below, you can see two new roles: “Shop manager” and “Customer”.

The “Customer” role in WooCommerce has almost no permissions. Users in this role can buy products, but normally they can't even access the WordPress admin area.
What happens if you want to give some customers extra permissions? One approach is to create a whole new user role. However, you can also give users an additional role.
For example, you can make some users a “Customer” but also give them the “Author” role so they can create content.
I'm going to show you two ways to add extra roles:
Method #1. Add an extra role for the whole site
This first method allows you to give users an extra role across all areas of your WordPress site.
- Install either the PublishPress plugin or the PublishPress Capabilities plugin.
- Go to the “Users” link in your WordPress admin menu.
- Either edit an existing users or create new user.
- The “Role” field will now be able to accept more than one choice:

Method #2. Add an extra role for certain situations
This second method allows you to give users an extra role in only some restricted areas of your WordPress site. For example, they could be an “Author” only for one post type.
- Install the PublishPress Permissions plugin.
- Go to the “Users” menu link.
- Click to edit a customer account:

- Scroll down and click the “customize this user directly” link:

On this page you can add supplemental roles for this user. For example:
- Choose “Post” from the “Post Type” dropdown.
- Choose “Author” from the “Role” dropdown.
- Click “Add Role” and “Save Role” to finish.
This “customer” will now also be able to act as as Author for all the Posts on your site.

Go back to the “Users” screen and you will be able to see the multiple roles listed next to the user account:

How do permissions work with multiple roles?
If you give multiple roles to a user, this does add some complexity. Please test the user account carefully after giving them access to multiple roles.
In most cases, the permissions are additional. Let's see a practical example of this:
- Subscriber: This role DOES NOT have the ability to create new Posts.
- Author: This role DOES have the ability to create new Posts.
In this case, a user with both the “Subscriber” and “Author” roles DOES have the ability to create posts. The user gets the permissions of both roles.
The only exception to this if a role has permissions that are explicitly denied. This screenshot below shows an example from the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. In this image, the permissions for Posts are all explicitly denied with the red X.
