Title: change user role capability
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# change user role capability

 *  Resolved [Elsa Soares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemvestir/)
 * (@bemvestir)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-user-role-capability/)
 * Hi,
 * I need to add a new capability to change the user role.
 * Kind Regards
 * Elsa Soares
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/)

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 *  [ablancodev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eggemplo/)
 * (@eggemplo)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-user-role-capability/#post-7274312)
 * Hi Elsa,
    From Groups->Capabilities you can add capabilities to groups. Kind 
   Regards, Antonio B.
 *  Thread Starter [Elsa Soares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemvestir/)
 * (@bemvestir)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-user-role-capability/#post-7274374)
 * Hi Antonio,
 * Yes I know I can add capabilities to groups.
    That’s the easy part! 🙂
 * What I need to know is the code capability to set/add or change the user role.
 * Kind Regards
 *  [ablancodev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eggemplo/)
 * (@eggemplo)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-user-role-capability/#post-7274375)
 * Hi,
    Groups doesn’t work with WordPress roles. Kind Regards, Antonio B.
 *  Plugin Author [Kento](https://wordpress.org/support/users/proaktion/)
 * (@proaktion)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-user-role-capability/#post-7274376)
 * Hi,
 * Groups doesn’t help you with changing a user’s _role_ … you can assign a user
   to a _group_ which is a different entity. If you’d like to see how that is done,
   see [http://docs.itthinx.com/document/groups/membership-management/](http://docs.itthinx.com/document/groups/membership-management/)
   please.
 * Cheers
 *  Thread Starter [Elsa Soares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemvestir/)
 * (@bemvestir)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-user-role-capability/#post-7274405)
 * Hi Kento,
 * Thanks for the reply.
 * Have a good day.
 * Cheers
 *  Thread Starter [Elsa Soares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemvestir/)
 * (@bemvestir)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-user-role-capability/#post-7274406)
 * Hi Kento,
 * Thanks for the reply.
    Have a good day.
 * Cheers

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 * Last reply from: [Elsa Soares](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemvestir/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-user-role-capability/#post-7274406)
 * Status: resolved