# Users with several roles - Roleline 1.x documentation

> Give a user more than one role on their profile, when adding them, or for many users at once on the Users list.

WordPress lets a user have several roles, but its screens only offer one. Roleline adds the rest. A user with several roles has every capability of each of them.

## On a user's profile

Open a user under **Users** and look for **Roles**: instead of WordPress's single dropdown there's a checkbox for every role you may hand out. Tick the roles they should have and click **Update User**.

![Several roles on a user's profile](https://storage.extendiment.com/media/622/screenshot-6.png)

- Roles you can't hand out (because they have capabilities you don't have) are shown, but can't be changed.
- On your own profile your roles are listed but can't be changed, as in WordPress.
- You can't take away your own roles if that would remove what you need to manage users and roles, your `manage_options`, or (if you aren't an administrator) any capability you couldn't give yourself back.

## When adding a user

**Users → Add New User** keeps WordPress's Role dropdown and adds **Additional roles** below it.

## For many users at once

On the **Users** list, next to WordPress's "Change role to…" (which replaces every role), Roleline adds:

- **Add role…**: gives the selected users one more role.
- **Remove role…**: takes one role away from them, leaving their others.

Tick the users, choose the role and click **Add** or **Remove**.

![Add role and Remove role on the Users list](https://storage.extendiment.com/media/623/screenshot-7.png)

## Where to see a user's roles

WordPress's Users list shows every role a user has in the **Role** column ("Author, Shop manager"), and filters by role at the top count each user under each of their roles.

## Who can change users' roles

People with WordPress's `promote_users` capability, as usual. Roleline also limits which roles they can give or take away: only roles within their own capabilities, and only roles WordPress lets them edit (the `editable_roles` filter, which some plugins use). Developers can adjust the list with `roleline_assignable_roles`.

Source: https://extendiment.com/plugins/roleline/docs/1.x/users-with-several-roles