Title: User role plugin recommendations
Last modified: December 20, 2016

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# User role plugin recommendations

 *  [figure2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figure2/)
 * (@figure2)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-role-plugin-recommendations/)
 * Greetings all,
 * I am developing a local business directory for a regional business group. The
   URL is [http://scasbog.raddaddesign.com/](http://scasbog.raddaddesign.com/)
 * Right now the website is on a staging server and all the business profiles, which
   are custom post types, are placeholders.
 * We will be enrolling local businesses soon though. Business owners will register
   and pay through a gravity form to upload their basic info and their featured 
   logo or identifying image. One of the website admins will then set up their profile
   and assign them a role.
 * Once a business profile is created, I want to limit the business owners access
   to only their profile. Additionally I want them to be able to upload images or
   other media content to the media library and onto their profile but limit their
   access to only media assets that belong to their profile.
 * I know there are lots of user role plugins out there but I am looking for recommendations
   for a plugin that will do what I need.
 * Thanks.

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 *  [ancawonka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ancawonka/)
 * (@ancawonka)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-role-plugin-recommendations/#post-8574507)
 * I recommend Justin Tadlock’s “Members” plugin for this task: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/),
   though there are a few others.
 * You’ll basically want to give the business users a role that’s analogous to the“
   author” role, where they can create and edit their own content, including being
   able to upload images, but won’t be able to edit anyone else’s content.
 * If you decide to go the Members route, let me know if you have other questions–
   I’ve done this a couple of times fairly successfully with this plugin (plus Advanced
   Custom Fields for front-end editing of the profile post type).
 *  Thread Starter [figure2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figure2/)
 * (@figure2)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-role-plugin-recommendations/#post-8578121)
 * Thanks ancawonka. I’ll give Members a try.

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