Roles and access

Every user on a site has exactly one role. The role decides which menu items appear and which actions succeed.

The three built-in roles

Role	Typical user	Can do
super_admin	You, the agency owner	Everything, across every site
staff	Client’s marketing team	Content, media, taxonomies, schema and plugins
partner	External agency	Read and write content, read media

The menu follows your capabilities

The dashboard does not show options you cannot use:

• Users appears only with users.manage.
• Roles appears only with roles.manage.
• Editors without schema.manage never see the schema builder.

If a colleague describes a menu you cannot see, their role has a capability yours does not.

Changing a role

An administrator changes your role under Users. Roles are baked into your session, so:

1. Sign out.
2. Sign in again.

Only then will the new permissions apply.

Custom roles

Roles are not fixed. Under Roles you can create a role with any combination of capabilities — see Users and roles for the full list.