Title: Multisite roles
Last modified: January 13, 2021

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# Multisite roles

 *  Resolved [wasanajones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wasanajones/)
 * (@wasanajones)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-roles/)
 * Hi – thanks for your plugins.
 * I’ve got a WP Mulisite
 * some subsites have custom user roles (WP Job Manager “Employer” or “Candidate”
   for example).
 * These roles don’t show up on the main site… so I can’t sync role to all sites
 * I was looking to use Paid Memberships Pro or another membership plugin to assign
   roles from the mainsite… but… I can’t seem to find a way to do that if the role
   doesn’t show up on the mainsite
 * a wonky idea would be to activate the plugin that generates the custom user role,
   then copy it and sync that, (and deactivate the plugin) but not sure that is 
   the right approach
 * any suggestions? thanks

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 *  [steveburge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveburge/)
 * (@steveburge)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-roles/#post-13903699)
 * Hi [@wasanajones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wasanajones/)
 * This guide should help: [https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/multisite-network/](https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/multisite-network/)
 *  Thread Starter [wasanajones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wasanajones/)
 * (@wasanajones)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-roles/#post-13903886)
 * Thanks, I looked at that helpful write up.
 * But my issue isn’t resolved there.
 * Roles that appear on subsite, are not shown on main site.
 *  [steveburge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveburge/)
 * (@steveburge)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-roles/#post-13903892)
 * [@wasanajones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wasanajones/) Sorry, multi-
   site doesn’t normally work that in the direction. The main site controls the 
   sub-sites and can push out data to those sites.

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 * Last reply from: [steveburge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveburge/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-roles/#post-13903892)
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