Roles and permission of User groups in Wordpress

In this article, we are going to discuss about the Roles and permission of User groups in wordpress. WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL, which runs on a web hosting service.


Features include a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by more than 18.9% of the top 10 million websites as of August 2013. WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites. Wordpress having a set of User groups roles and permission. They are

1. Super Admin – somebody with access to the site network administration features and all other features. See the Create a Network article.
2. Administrator – somebody who has access to all the administration features within a single site.
3. Editor – somebody who can publish and manage posts including the posts of other users.
4. Author – somebody who can publish and manage their own posts.
5. Contributor – somebody who can write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them.
6. Subscriber – somebody who can only manage their profile.

Graphical User Roles and permission in WordPress: