Title: Additional Permissions for Specific Users
Last modified: August 17, 2018

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# Additional Permissions for Specific Users

 *  Resolved [Alkorr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alkorr/)
 * (@alkorr)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-permissions-for-specific-users/)
 * Hi, is it possible to add ‘personal’ capabilities to a specific user? The previous,
   outdated plugin is used before Members allowed me to do that but I couldn’t find
   a way to do the same with Members.
 * The only way would be to create a new role for each capability I want to add 
   to a specific user, which is not very optimized, I would have to create many 
   new roles to do so.
 * Thanks for your help! 🙂

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-permissions-for-specific-users/)
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