Title: Multiple Roles?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Multiple Roles?

 *  [gentist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gentist/)
 * (@gentist)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-roles/)
 * I’ve been playing around with various ways of handing out specific permissions
   to members (and semi-staff) of my WP blog, as to limit the areas where-, and 
   how they can post. However, I’ve ran into one problem. I’d like each member to
   have one (sub)category where they can blog themselves, after having had their
   posts approved by “moderators”. This wouldn’t be so much of a problem, if I didn’t
   want one (other) group of members to be in charge of said subcategory’s parent
   category (the so called “moderator” group).
 * Now, the whole restriction thing was solved with the “Limit Categories” and “
   Role Manager” plugin, but that only works for one of the situations at a time,
   not both. If one user were to be a “moderator” for one category, that user wouldn’t
   be able to have his/her permissions limited elsewhere at the same time (being
   able to publish his/her posts under the category assigned to him/her for moderator
   purposes, while at the same time having to have other posts approved by other
   moderators when posting under other categories).
 * Now, in theory, I would be able to solve these problems if I could assign two
   Roles to the same user, seeing as that would enable me to give the user different
   access levels (using Role Manager) depending on the category they post under (
   using Limit Categories). Is there a way I can do this, or can I solve my problem
   in another way?

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 *  Thread Starter [gentist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gentist/)
 * (@gentist)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-roles/#post-423552)
 * I suppose one other solution is to modify “Limit Category” to allow “posting 
   to categories without the publishing right” as an alternative to just “posting
   rights”, though I suppose that’s a feature request for the plugin, unless I decide
   to patch it myself.

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