Title: Custom Role name & Capabilities
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Custom Role name & Capabilities

 *  [Sagar Gulati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sagargulati/)
 * (@sagargulati)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-role-name-capabilities/)
 * Greetings,
    We are looking for a plugin to assign custom role and names to users
   like Author or Editors as Storyteller or manager. Also we want to show that in
   our theme (Using newspaper theme) that where the author name appears, it should
   show the user role title like:
 * By Sagar Gulati (Storyteller)
 * Any plugins or advanced helps for editing the theme or functions appreciated!
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Adeline](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adeline/)
 * (@adeline)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-role-name-capabilities/#post-7054143)
 * I just did a search for [user roles](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=user+roles)
   within the plugins directory. You should be able to find numerous plugins that
   can assign roles to your users.
 * The same applies for the bio details of authors at the end of each post (as an
   example) so I searched for [bio author details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?type=term&q=bio+author+details)
   within the plugins directory.
 * When experimenting with plugins, always make sure they’re compatible with your
   version of WordPress.
 * All the best!
 *  Thread Starter [Sagar Gulati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sagargulati/)
 * (@sagargulati)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-role-name-capabilities/#post-7054159)
 * Any particular plugin you could recommend who can sort the thing we need?
    Like
   showing the custom role name beside By Author Name?
 * Thanks!

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 * [capabilities](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/capabilities/)
 * [custom titles](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-titles/)

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 * Last reply from: [Sagar Gulati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sagargulati/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-role-name-capabilities/#post-7054159)
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