Roles and Capabilities

WordPress has six pre-defined roles: Super Admin, Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor and Subscriber. Each role is allowed to perform a set of tasks called Capabilities.

List capabilite.

• switch_themes

• edit_themes

• edit_theme_options

• install_themes

• activate_plugins

• edit_plugins

• install_plugins

• edit_users

• edit_files

• manage_options

• moderate_comments

• manage_categories

• manage_links

• upload_files

• import

• unfiltered_html

• edit_posts

• edit_others_posts

• edit_published_posts

• publish_posts

• edit_pages

• read

• publish_pages

• edit_others_pages

• edit_published_pages

• delete_pages

• delete_others_pages

• delete_published_pages

• delete_posts

• delete_others_posts

• delete_published_posts

• delete_private_posts

• edit_private_posts

• read_private_posts

• delete_private_pages

• edit_private_pages

• read_private_pages

• delete_users

• create_users

• unfiltered_upload

• edit_dashboard

• customize

• delete_site

• update_plugins

• delete_plugins

• update_themes

• update_core

• list_users

• remove_users

• add_users

• promote_users

• delete_themes

• export

• edit_comment

• create_sites

• delete_sites

• manage_network

• manage_sites

• manage_network_users

• manage_network_themes

• manage_network_options

• manage_network_plugins

• upload_plugins

• upload_themes

• upgrade_network

• setup_network