Title: capability definitions?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# capability definitions?

 *  [cforce1210](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cforce1210/)
 * (@cforce1210)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capability-definitions/)
 * Hello, this is probably a dumb question, so again, I apologize in advance…
 * Is there somewhere in the documentation that defines what the capabilities actually
   mean? For example, I just installed this plugin and it came with something like
   66 capabilities already in there…some of them look like “groups” custom/specific
   capabilities and some look like maybe they were created by/for the plugin (i.
   e. level_0) and I can’t figure out how to tell what they mean! Obviously some
   capabilities are, well, obvious (i.e. edit_posts), but what is the difference
   between “read” and “groups_read_posts”? It would be helpful to have the definitions
   of all ‘standard’ capabilities to reference to – and it’s probably already out
   there I’m just not looking in the right place for it 🙂
 * Thank you!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/)

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 *  [gtsiokos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gtsiokos/)
 * (@gtsiokos)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/capability-definitions/#post-6733323)
 * Hi cforce1210,
 * Most of predefined capabilities in Groups plugin are the capabilities embedded
   in WP system. If you have a look in [this link](https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#read)
   you can find the usage of read capability and a list of other capabilities available.
   Others are self-explained by their names, like groups_read_posts.
    Furthermore,
   you can add your own custom capabilities to restrict access to a page/post.
 * Kind regards,
    George

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