# Roles - Roleline 1.x documentation

> Add, clone, rename and delete roles, choose the role new users get, and reset WordPress's own roles.

A role is a named set of capabilities. Everyone with a role can do what its capabilities allow. **Users → Roles** lists every role on the site with its number of users and capabilities.

![The roles list](https://storage.extendiment.com/media/618/screenshot-1.png)

## Add a role

Use **Add New Role** on the left:

- **Name**: what everyone sees on the Users screens, e.g. "Support Agent".
- **Slug**: the role's key, used in code. Leave it empty and Roleline makes it from the name (`support_agent`). It can't be changed later. New slugs use lowercase letters, numbers, underscores and hyphens; roles other plugins added keep their slugs exactly as they are, capitals included.
- **Start with the capabilities of**: copy an existing role, or start with just `read` (log in and edit your own profile).

Click **Add New Role**. The role editor opens, so you can choose its capabilities.

## Clone a role

Hover a role and click **Clone**. The form on the left fills in "Name (copy)" and copies that role's capabilities. Change the name and click **Clone Role**.

## Rename a role

Open the role and change its name at the top of the role editor, then **Save Changes**. The slug stays the same, so nothing that refers to the role breaks.

## Delete a role

Hover the role and click **Delete**. Roleline tells you how many users have the role and how many have no other role. Choose the role those users get instead, then **Confirm Deletion**. Users with other roles just lose this one.

A role with more than 1,000 users is deleted with WP-CLI, where moving that many users can't time out:

```
wp roleline delete shop_helper --reassign=customer
```

Two roles can't be deleted:

- **Administrator**, ever.
- The **default role** for new users. Make another role the default first.

## The default role

New users (from registration, WooCommerce checkout or Add New User) get the default role. It's marked **Default role** in the list. Hover another role and click **Make default** to change it.

If the role you choose has capabilities that control the site (managing options, users or plugins), Roleline asks you to confirm first: everyone who registers would get them.

## Reset WordPress's roles

Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor and Subscriber are WordPress's own roles. If one of them has been changed, open it and click **Reset to WordPress defaults** in the Save box. Its WordPress capabilities go back to how a new WordPress site has them, and its name too. Capabilities other plugins added (WooCommerce's, for example) stay.

Like every change, a reset is backed up first.

Source: https://extendiment.com/plugins/roleline/docs/1.x/roles