Generated by All in One SEO Pro v4.9.6.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Members WordPress Plugin Membership & User Role Editor Plugin ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://members-plugin.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://members-plugin.com/blog/) ## Pages - [Home](https://members-plugin.com/) - What is Members? Members is a User Roles and capabilities based WordPress Membership Plugin. It gives your users the ultimate member experience by giving you powerful tools to add roles and capabilities and assign them to your users. Members allows you to set permissions to restrict content on your site by providing a simple user interface - [Import / Export Roles](https://members-plugin.com/docs/import-export-roles/) - The Members plugin lets you save your roles to a file and load them onto another WordPress site. This is handy if you want to: Move your role setup from a staging site to your live site Reuse the same roles across multiple sites you manage Back up your roles before making big changes Both - [Docs](https://members-plugin.com/docs/) - Members is a plugin that extends your control over your site. It's a user, role, and capability management plugin that was created to make WordPress a more powerful CMS. It puts you in control over permissions on your site by providing a user interface (UI) for WordPress' powerful role and cap system, which is traditionally - [Administrator Rescue Link](https://members-plugin.com/docs/administrator-rescue-link/) - Administrator Rescue Link If you can no longer access the WordPress admin because your role or capabilities were changed, you can restore your Administrator access yourself: Go to your site's login page: yoursite.com/wp-login.php In the address bar, add ?action=members_rescue so the URL is: yoursite.com/wp-login.php?action=members_rescue Enter the email address of an account that currently has the - [Reset Roles and Capabilities](https://members-plugin.com/docs/reset-roles-and-capabilities/) - Sometimes, when editing capabilities in the Role Editor, you might remove a permission you actually need — leaving you or other users unable to access parts of your site. The Members plugin includes a built-in tool to reset the five default WordPress roles back to their original capabilities. Before proceeding, generate a full backup of - [Members vs MemberPress](https://members-plugin.com/members-vs-memberpress/) - Members and MemberPress are often mentioned in the same breath — and for good reason. They're both built by the same team, they're designed to work together, and together they cover the full spectrum of what a WordPress site owner needs to run a modern membership business. But they solve very different problems, and understanding - [Widgets](https://members-plugin.com/docs/widgets/) - The widgets component provides easy-to-use widgets for your site. They can be used in any WordPress widget area (provided by your theme). Currently, there's the Login Form and Users widgets. Login Form widget The Login Form gives you a login form. It's a mixture of a text widget and login form. It can also show - [Snippets](https://members-plugin.com/docs/snippets/) - If you are developer here you can find a bunch of snippets provided by Members plugin Checking if the current user has a capabilityChecking if a user has a roleNeed the old user levels system?Registering capabilitiesRegistering cap groups Checking if the current user has a capability In plugins and your theme template files, you might - [Shortcodes](https://members-plugin.com/docs/shortcodes/) - There are several shortcodes that you can use in your post editor or any shortcode-ready area.. [members_access] The [members_access] shortcode is for hiding content from particular roles and capabilities. You need to wrap your content when using this shortcode: [members_access role="editor"]Hide this content from everyone but editors.[/members_access] The plugin accepts the following parameters (mixing and - [Role Management](https://members-plugin.com/docs/role-management/) - The Role Manager feature allows you to edit and add new roles as well as add and remove both default capabilities and custom capabilities from roles. It is an extremely powerful system. Any changes you make to users and roles using this feature are permanent changes. This means that if you deactivate or uninstall this - [Private Site](https://members-plugin.com/docs/private-site/) - The Private Site feature that you can enable in Members → Settings → General tab allows you to make sure that only logged-in users can see anything on your site. If a user visits your site and is not logged in, they are immediately redirected to your wp-login.php (WordPress login) page. You can also enable - [Multiple User Roles](https://members-plugin.com/docs/multiple-user-roles/) - You can assign a user more than one role by going to that edit user screen in the admin and locating the "Roles" section. There will be a checkbox for every role. You can also multiple roles to a user from the add new user screen. On the "Users" screen in the admin, you can - [Explicitly Deny Capabilities](https://members-plugin.com/docs/explicitly-deny-capabilities/) - How denied capabilities work Suppose the Super role is granted these capabilities: edit_posts Then, suppose the Duper role is granted these capabilities: publish_postsedit_products Now, further suppose User A has the Super role because you want them to edit posts. However, you also want User A to be able to edit products so you assign them - [Content Permissions](https://members-plugin.com/docs/content-permissions/) - The Content Permissions feature adds an additional meta box on the post editing screen. For any public post type (posts, pages, etc.), you'll see a "Content Permissions" meta box on the post editing screen. This meta box allows you to select which roles can view the content of the post/page. If no roles are selected, - [Clone Roles](https://members-plugin.com/docs/clone-roles/) - The clone feature allows you to clone existing role with all capabilities with one click. You can clone the role by going to the “Roles” section, hovering over the role you would like to clone, and hitting the "Clone" link. Once you click that link you will be redirected to the new role page with - [Docs Old](https://members-plugin.com/docs-old/) - Members is a plugin that extends your control over your blog. It's a user, role, and capability management plugin that was created to make WordPress a more powerful CMS. It puts you in control over permissions on your site by providing a user interface (UI) for WordPress' powerful role and cap system, which is traditionally