Title: Limit the users editing
Last modified: October 4, 2023

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# Limit the users editing

 *  Resolved [Drauth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drauth/)
 * (@drauth)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-the-users-editing/)
 * HI;
   I created a new role, “staff”.It must have the ability to edit and create
   new users (and so far it’s easy), but it must not be able to modify the administrator
   or editor roles. It’s possible? How to do?And is it possible to assign it a hierarchy
   with respect to other existing roles, default WordPress ones or customized?Thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [Caseproof LLC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caseproof/)
 * (@caseproof)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-the-users-editing/#post-17104908)
 * Hi [@drauth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drauth/)
 * What you are looking for is a position feature that lets you set members of a
   particular role to be able to edit users with roles “lower” or “lower or equal”
   to their own role. For example, you could set Editors to be able to create new
   Editors or only roles lower than Editor.
 * In order to use it, you need to activate “Members – Role Hierarchy” Add-on under
   Members > Settings > Add-Ons tab, and once it’s done you should see “Role Position”
   meta when you edit role.
 * Keep in mind that higher value, the higher the role will be in hierarchy, so 
   if you set 10 which is really low value, members won’t be able to edit capabilities
   for roles of higher position. Do not set this value to 100 as this is position
   of Administrator.
 * Hopefully, that helps.

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