Title: Capabilities vs Roles
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Capabilities vs Roles

 *  [Jip Moors](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jipmoors/)
 * (@jipmoors)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capabilities-vs-roles/)
 * We like to implement our own role system in our many WordPress installations,
   only InfiniteWP does not support users that are not ‘Administrator’ to connect
   and update plugins.
 * Our intent is to give the users the idea that they are ‘Administrator’ and instead
   make a role for ourselves, the ‘real’ administrators.
 * We are willing to supply code for this functionality because we don’t want to
   fork the plugin.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/iwp-client/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/iwp-client/)

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## Tags

 * [administrator](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/administrator/)
 * [connecting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/connecting/)

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 * Last reply from: [Jip Moors](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jipmoors/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capabilities-vs-roles/)
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