Complete Guide to WordPress Permission Based Content Display

Editor

The editor has full authority over the content of the site. Editors can edit any work posted by different authors and take care of the quality of content. Hence, after admin, this is the most powerful user role.

An editor can:

• Write anything without admin’s permission
• Delete or edit any other content posted by authors.
• They have the right to edit or delete other people’s work as well.

Usually, editors take care of the content on the site and try to maintain the quality. The role of the editor should be assigned to someone you can trust.

Author

If you’ve read blogs, you must be aware of this role. Authors are only allowed to write, edit, manipulate, and publish their posts only – the posts that are published with their name.

The access is only limited to the author’s posts. Uploading images/files to the media library is also allowed. Deleting the uploaded files is also allowed to an author. However, they can’t access posts published by other authors.

As an author, you can always add posts but you can’t add anything to the categories section. Additionally, an author can also view the comments. They can’t do anything to the comments

Contributor

If you assign the role of a contributor to a user, they can only manipulate the posts they own. However, they can’t publish the posts. The user with the role of a contributor can add and edit their own posts. However, they don’t have the authority to publish any posts, not even their own. Contributors can’t add anything to the media library. They don’t have access to the setting, plug-ins, etc.

This role is assigned to people who only want to write. They can’t do anything else on your WordPress site.

Subscribers

The role of the subscriber has minimum rights. The subscriber cannot do anything to your site. They can only create and maintain their profile on your WordPress site. They can’t publish anything. The subscribers are mostly seen in the comment section. Hence, they are the readers who visit your site frequently.

Creating Custom User Roles

The functionalities that the WordPress CMS has to offer are unlimited. If you’re unaware of this unique functionality, the good news is, yes, it’s possible on WordPress. You own the site and you have the full right to make any changes to it. If you are a new user you might be a little hesitant to come up with new stuff on WordPress but as an experienced user, it’s a lot easier to add custom functionalities. This functionality lets you chose what rights you want to assign to the new role. You want it to have limited content access or you want users of this role to be able to edit anything. It totally depends on you!

If you’re planning to create custom roles, we suggest that you choose the rights wisely.