Title: Capability across multisite
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Capability across multisite

 *  Resolved [Retrofitter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/retrofitter/)
 * (@retrofitter)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capability-across-multisite/)
 * Hi, can anyone tell if it’s possible to assign a custom capability to a user 
   and automatically have that specific capability assigned to the user on all sites
   in a multisite install?

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 *  [snowboardmommy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snowboardmommy/)
 * (@snowboardmommy)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capability-across-multisite/#post-4293949)
 * I am pretty sure you will have to use a (multisite compatible) role scoping plugin
   for this. or write a function/plugin to do it yourself. halfelf.org has a couple
   good multisite ebooks and may have a plugin recommendation for you there. HTH
 *  Thread Starter [Retrofitter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/retrofitter/)
 * (@retrofitter)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capability-across-multisite/#post-4293980)
 * A plugin would be fine – just haven’t found one, that suited our needs.
 * Maybe I should elaborate a bit on the scenario, that we’re considering.
 * We’re planning a network of sites. Some with paid content. Some with free content.
   
   When a user registers/logs into a site, we want him/her to be logged into all
   sites and have a profile on all sites. That doesn’t seem to be a problem.
 * But we also want to present specific content to user, when they enter a new site
   in the network. An example could that a user, that has registered on site B, 
   enters site A (with paid content) he is presented with special offer, maybe reduced
   subscription fee, maybe an ad or maybe the user is able to see parts of the content.
 * Buying a plugin or maybe even having one developed would not be a big obstacle,
   but we would appreciate opinions on, whether it is doable within reasonable limits–
   we don’t want to rewrite core or anything like that.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capability-across-multisite/#post-4294046)
 * Eeeeh. Yes.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/)
   can do that. BUT … but but.
 * It is SO easy to kill your site’s access with that stuff :/
 *  Thread Starter [Retrofitter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/retrofitter/)
 * (@retrofitter)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capability-across-multisite/#post-4294102)
 * Thanks, for the answer, Ipstenu
 * Sorry, I didn’t see until now.
 * I’m not completely sure, that I understand, what you’re saying.
 * Would the approach be inherently insecure, or do we just need to be extremely
   careful,
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capability-across-multisite/#post-4294103)
 * It’s not insecure. it’s just hard to fix if you screw it up.
 *  [jkhongusc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkhongusc/)
 * (@jkhongusc)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capability-across-multisite/#post-4294104)
 * We are using User Role Editor. I want to confirm that it will do what you want.
   It works well with our WP multisite. Let me warn you that the plugin is very 
   powerful and you need to be very careful using it. I would like to warn against
   setting things back to default with URE. If you use other plugins that modify
   roles or capabilities, URE could wipe out all those customizations.
 *  Thread Starter [Retrofitter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/retrofitter/)
 * (@retrofitter)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capability-across-multisite/#post-4294105)
 * Thanks everybody. I’ll look closer at user role editor.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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