Adjusting roles and capabilities

Imagely lets you choose which WordPress users can manage galleries, albums, tags, and settings. You do this by picking the lowest user role that should have each permission.

Imagely works with the standard WordPress roles: Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor, and Administrator. Custom roles added by other plugins are not listed.

How the role setting works

For each permission, you choose the lowest role that should have it. Every role above that one gets the permission too.

For example, if you set Add gallery / Upload images to Editor, then Editors and Administrators can create galleries and upload images. Authors, Contributors, and Subscribers can’t. If you set it to Subscriber, every role can.

Administrators always keep every permission, because Administrator is the highest role on the list.

Where to find the setting

1. Go to Imagely > Settings.
2. Click the Roles & Capabilities tab.
3. In the Capability Settings section, pick a role from the dropdown next to each permission.

Your change saves on its own. You’ll see a “Roles and capabilities updated successfully!” message. There is no Save button on this tab.

Only site administrators can see the Roles & Capabilities tab.

What each permission controls

By default, every permission is set to Administrator.

Multisite networks

On a WordPress multisite network, only network super admins can change these settings by default. A network super admin can let site administrators change them too, from the network admin under Gallery > Network settings, by checking Enable roles/capabilities.