Melapress Role Editor

Melapress Role Editor enables you to easily manage your WordPress user roles. Create, edit, and delete user roles like a pro thanks to the intuitive interface and wizards that hand-hold you every step of the way. Melapress Role Editor comes with several features, including:

• Ability to create, edit, and delete custom user roles with ease
• Granular post-based permissions, enabling you to allow edit access to one post but not another
• Useful out-of-the-box custom roles
• Backup and restore user role configurations
• Auto-detect user role changes with restore prompt
• Add users to multiple roles
• Allow or Deny capabilities
• Out-of-the-box support for Easy Digital Downloads, WooCommerce, and Yoast SEO
• Capability of pretty names for easier referencing

Melapress Role Editor Benefits Stress-free configuration with step-by-step wizards Melapress Role Editor makes it easy to manage roles thanks to its intuitive interface and wizards that walk you through the entire process. By using wizards, you can rest easy knowing that all necessary steps have been accounted for and nothing was missed. Of course, you can also edit roles manually if you wish. Increased security with auto change detection Melapress Role Editor keeps a record of each role's capabilities for security and reliability. It alerts you whenever there is a change so that you can choose to restore roles to the previous configuration or accept the changes, keeping you in the driver's seat at all times. Peace of mind with backups and restore Not sure if planned role changes will pan out? Don't worry - simply take a backup of the existing configuration from within the plugin so that you can always restore a known working configuration should something break. Better guidance with out-of-the-box custom roles Melapress Role Editor comes with a number of pre-configured roles designed to help you get started quickly. Modeled after common roles in the WordPress business, such as Business owner, Developer, and HR manager, each role has been designed to respect the principle of least privilege while giving you a head start in configuring new custom roles. Simplify complexity with multiple roles and capability deny WordPress environments can get pretty complex, so we added features to accommodate every scenario. You can assign users multiple roles to avoid creating additional roles. You can also explicitly deny capabilities to ensure the utmost level of security in complex scenarios. MAINTAINED & SUPPORTED BY MELAPRESS Melapress builds high-quality niche WordPress security & management plugins, including WP Activity Log, WP 2FA, Melapress Login Security, and others. Visit the Melapress website for more information about the company and the plugins it develops.

1.1.0 (2025-10-08)

• New features
• Added support for creating roles with granular editing permissions, allowing administrators to limit users to edit only selected post types and specific posts within those types (without create or delete access).
• A setup wizard on plugin activation to guide admins through creating and configuring roles more easily.
• Plugin & functionality improvements
• Improved the Search of capabilities inside plugin wizards
• Moved the plugin menu under the “Users” section and split functionality into two pages: “User Roles” and “User Role Tools” for better organization.
• Improved the Assign Role tool by merging the two separate role selectors into a single form and streamlining the UI/UX.
• Changed the layout of the About us page with improved text and imagery.
• Automated backups removed from the plugins and replaced with a manual backup approach, which is better for the user.
• Reviewed how per-post rules are stored and handled in the database, and prepared improvements for cleaner management and future enhancements.
• Updated the plugin’s internal structure to improve long-term maintainability and make future expansions easier.
• Improved the looks and feels Screen Options area of the plugin.
• Reviewed and updated the plugin codebase to follow security best practices, including proper sanitization, escaping, nonce usage, and permission checks.
• Improved readability across admin pages by shortening long text lines and adjusting copy to more user-friendly line lengths.
• Improved the role editor UX so that after saving capabilities, users remain on the same tab/subsection instead of being redirected to the default view.
• Redesigned the roles table for better clarity by removing hover descriptions, adding a dedicated Description column, and clearly distinguishing built-in roles from custom ones (including creator info).
• Bug fixes
• Fixed multiple spelling mistakes across plugin pages and interface text.
• Fixed overlapping tag display in role editor search results by adding proper padding when tags wrap onto multiple lines.
• Fixed an issue where pressing Enter in the search field on the role editor page triggered a role save instead of performing the search.
• Standardized all plugin links and now using consistent UTM parameters.
• Fixed an issue where the New Role wizard sometimes displayed an incorrect permission count after reopening the wizard.
• Fixed an issue where per-post permission labels were not updated when a role name was changed, causing old labels (e.g. “Moderator”) to continue appearing instead of the new name.
• Fixed some internally reported PHP Warnings and fatal errors that could occur in certain circumstances.

1.0.1 (2025-02-26)

• Improvements
• The plugin now correctly displays the "Super Admin" role on multsite networks for relevant users when they are looked up/filtered through the plugin.
• Improved various UI elements across plugin pages and adjusted help text descriptions.
• Added missing help text for the custom "Content Editor" role created by the plugin.
• Bug fixes
• Fixed restricted plugin pages for admins on multisite networks.
• Multisite: Resolved an issue preventing users from being added with both a primary and secondary role on a subsite.
• Fixed a bug where users with multiple roles and overlapping capabilities were not following the "DENY" rule correctly.

1.0 (2025-02-18)

• Initial release.