Status: Available Learn the 5 roles you can give people, what each one can do, and how to assign them.
Everyone in your community has a role. The role decides what someone is allowed to do beyond being a regular member. There are five roles.
The 5 roles
| Role | What they can do |
|---|---|
| Member | The default for everyone. Join groups, buy products and plans, post, comment, react, run polls, and send direct messages. |
| Community Admin | Everything. Edit community settings, run commerce (products, plans, orders), manage all content, and assign roles to other members. |
| Community Moderator | Moderate content everywhere (remove posts and comments, handle reports). They cannot touch settings or commerce. |
| Course Manager | Build and manage all courses. |
| Blog Manager | Write and publish blog posts. |
A few things to keep straight:
- Member is the baseline. The other four roles add powers on top; they don't take away a person's normal member abilities.
- Moderators are not admins. They keep content clean but have no access to your settings or your money.
- Course Manager and Blog Manager are content-only. They manage their area and nothing else.
How to assign a role
You set someone's role on their member record:
- Open Members (
/admin/users). - Open the member you want to change.
- Set the Role field to one of the five roles.
- Save.
The change takes effect for that member. As an admin, the only roles you can assign are these five.
Good to know
- There is no per-group leader or per-group moderator role. A Community Moderator moderates across the whole community, not one group at a time.
- Roles are about powers, not about what content someone has paid for. Whether a member has bought a product or plan is separate from their role.