Title: Using Capabilities
Last modified: April 13, 2017

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# Using Capabilities

 *  [MC3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mc3/)
 * (@mc3)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-capabilities/)
 * Hi, and many thanks for this plugin. I’m trying to understand how capabilities
   work with this plugin. I can see from the documentation that a when a Civi contact
   has one of the ‘current’ membership statuses, then a “Membership Capability” 
   is added to the matching WP user account. What I don’t understand is how that
   capability is defined in terms of the user’s access to site content and functionality.
   
   I can see that I could potentially use this custom membership capability to allow
   or deny access to a piece of content, but not how it might be used to – for example–
   control access to a forum or the ability to post in that forum. Maybe I should
   switch to using Roles rather than Capabilities?

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 *  Plugin Author [Christian Wach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/needle/)
 * (@needle)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-capabilities/#post-9065182)
 * Hi [@mc3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mc3/)
 * Capabilities can be used in myriad ways in WordPress. You can add the custom 
   capabilities to your existing roles using your own code or a plugin that allows
   this via a GUI (e.g. [Members](https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/)). You 
   can check capabilities directly, you can filter other capabilities based on whether
   a user has a cap or not, or you can group capabilities using [Groups](https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups/)
   for example. How you decide to set this up is beyond the scope of this thread,
   however.
 * Cheers, Christian

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