Activating Roles Editor
The Roles Editor feature is available starting with version 2.6.2 of Profile Builder Free, Basic and Pro
To activate this feature go to Profile Builder → General Settings and enable the “Roles Editor” functionality, then click Save Changes.
After this, you will find the Roles Editor sub-page under the Users page.
Roles Editor Page
- Under every role you have options:
- Edit – to edit the role
- Clone – duplicate role capabilities to a new role (saves time when you create a new role)
- Delete – permanently delete a role – (important) This can’t be undone! (you can’t delete your administrator role or default role – change the default role to another and then delete the old one)
- Change Default – this option is displayed only for the default role so you can go and change it
- Role Slug – this is the role slug / id (can be different than role name / display name)
- Capabilities – number of capabilities assigned to that role
- Users – number of users with that role
- If you delete a role, it will be removed from all users that currently have it
- If this results in the user having no other roles, he will be assigned the Default Role from your website
- Capabilities text colors:
- blue – that capability is a new one added and it is not saved until Publish / Update button is clicked
- black – an existing capability of that role
Individual Role Edit
- Edit the user role to add or remove capabilities
The Slug and Display Name can’t be edited for existing roles, you can only edit them when a role is created for the first time
Capabilities
- Use multiple select to add one or more existing capabilities to a role
- Use Add New Capability link to change the select to input and add a new custom capability
- Delete Permanently:
- (important) This can’t be undone! To add it back you must add it to a role as a new custom capability
- only for custom capabilities – created by you or by plugins
- deletes the capability from you site and from every role
