Title: [Plugin: User Access Manager] Custom User Roles
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: User Access Manager] Custom User Roles

 *  [Don Elliott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donisflying/)
 * (@donisflying)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-access-manager-custom-user-roles/)
 * We have a role created ‘Manager’ which needs to be able to create user groups,
   but must be restricted from other admin-like capabilities. Has anyone figured
   out a way to accomplish this yet?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-access-manager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-access-manager/)

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 *  [ddpweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddpweb/)
 * (@ddpweb)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-access-manager-custom-user-roles/#post-2338237)
 * I found a way to do this using the user-role-editor.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/)
 * Client needed a way for having a user type defined so they can each have their
   own private page. I found that by using this plugin to add new Roles, each having
   the same permissions as the subscriber, allowed me to create new user groups 
   for just those users.
 *  Thread Starter [Don Elliott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donisflying/)
 * (@donisflying)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-access-manager-custom-user-roles/#post-2338242)
 * Thanks for the response ddpweb. I was actually working with that same plugin.
   However that’s not quite what I am looking to do. Right now with User Access 
   Manager (UAM) you can set the ‘minimum’ level of user who is allowed to create
   groups, but it can only be standard WordPress user roles, it won’t acknowledge
   custom roles.
 *  Plugin Author [gm_alex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gm_alex/)
 * (@gm_alex)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-access-manager-custom-user-roles/#post-2338247)
 * With the new version 1.2.1 there is a capability ‘manage_user_groups’ which should
   do the job.
 *  Thread Starter [Don Elliott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donisflying/)
 * (@donisflying)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-access-manager-custom-user-roles/#post-2338257)
 * Thats great news! Thanks

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 * Last reply from: [Don Elliott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donisflying/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-user-access-manager-custom-user-roles/#post-2338257)
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