Title: Default Capabilities
Last modified: January 3, 2019

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# Default Capabilities

 *  Resolved [mackerg4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mackerg4/)
 * (@mackerg4)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-capabilities/)
 * Hi,
 * When setting up Roles, if I neither grant nor deny a capability, i.e. leave both
   checkboxes empty, what will that capability be set to?
 * Thanks
 * Bob.

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 *  [Justin Tadlock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greenshady/)
 * (@greenshady)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-capabilities/#post-11047893)
 * This section of the readme describes how that works: [https://github.com/justintadlock/members/blob/2.1/readme.md#grant-deny-or-neither](https://github.com/justintadlock/members/blob/2.1/readme.md#grant-deny-or-neither)
 *  Thread Starter [mackerg4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mackerg4/)
 * (@mackerg4)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-capabilities/#post-11047904)
 * Perfect, thank you.

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-capabilities/#post-11047904)
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