WordPress Role Table
Note that the capabilities of Administrators differs between single site and Multisite WordPress installations, as described above .
| Capability | Administrator | Editor | Author | Contributor | Subscriber |
| activate_plugins | Y (single site or enabled by network setting) |
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| create_users | Y (single site) | ||||
| delete_plugins | Y (single site) | ||||
| delete_themes | Y (single site) | ||||
| delete_users | Y (single site) | ||||
| edit_files | Y (single site) | ||||
| edit_plugins | Y (single site) | ||||
| edit_theme_options | Y | ||||
| edit_themes | Y (single site) | ||||
| edit_users | Y (single site) | ||||
| export | Y | ||||
| import | Y | ||||
| Capability | Administrator | Editor | Author | Contributor | Subscriber |
| install_plugins | Y (single site) | ||||
| install_themes | Y (single site) | ||||
| list_users | Y | ||||
| manage_options | Y | ||||
| promote_users | Y | ||||
| remove_users | Y | ||||
| switch_themes | Y | ||||
| update_core | Y (single site) | ||||
| update_plugins | Y (single site) | ||||
| update_themes | Y (single site) | ||||
| edit_dashboard | Y | ||||
| customize | Y | ||||
| delete_site | Y | ||||
| Capability | Administrator | Editor | Author | Contributor | Subscriber |
| moderate_comments | Y | Y | |||
| manage_categories | Y | Y | |||
| manage_links | Y | Y | |||
| edit_others_posts | Y | Y | |||
| edit_pages | Y | Y | |||
| edit_others_pages | Y | Y | |||
| edit_published_pages | Y | Y | |||
| publish_pages | Y | Y | |||
| delete_pages | Y | Y | |||
| delete_others_pages | Y | Y | |||
| delete_published_pages | Y | Y | |||
| delete_others_posts | Y | Y | |||
| delete_private_posts | Y | Y | |||
| edit_private_posts | Y | Y | |||
| read_private_posts | Y | Y | |||
| delete_private_pages | Y | Y | |||
| edit_private_pages | Y | Y | |||
| read_private_pages | Y | Y | |||
| unfiltered_html | Y (single site) | Y (single site) | |||
| Capability | Administrator | Editor | Author | Contributor | Subscriber |
| edit_published_posts | Y | Y | Y | ||
| upload_files | Y | Y | Y | ||
| publish_posts | Y | Y | Y | ||
| delete_published_posts | Y | Y | Y | ||
| edit_posts | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| delete_posts | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Capability | Administrator | Editor | Author | Contributor | Subscriber |
| read | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Credits:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
