WordPress 5 Cookbook

Creating a new capability

Take the following steps to create a new capability and add it to an existing user role:

1. Click the Add Capability button from the User Role Editor screen, as shown in the previous section.
2. Add a unique ID to the Capability name field. In this case, we will assign review_products as the capability name.
3. Click the Add Capability button.

Now, the new capability will be created and available for selection in the user role editing process.