Copy permissions from existing role to an existing role

MysteryMadMan

Hello.

Is it possible to copy all the permissions from one existing role to another existing role.

E.g. I have a user userA, It belongs to roles: Author, Teachers, TeacherClassA.

I set rules for Teachers group, so they cannot see any post categories. And with TeacherClassA, I want to grant access so UserA has access to some categories in post. Can I copy all permissions from Teachers to TeacherClassA or do you recommend any other way. I already have all groups created with all users and catergories and I don't want to do this manually. Thank you

vasyl

MysteryMadMan it all depends on how you are planning to manage access settings. So there are two possible ways.

If you are planning to define access settings once and never change them again, then you can create Teachers role, define all the necessary settings and then clone that role to other roles (e.g. TeacherClassA, TeacherClassB, etc.). You can find more information about role cloning from How to manage WordPress roles article.

Another possible solution is much more flexible because access settings from Teachers role will be dynamically propagated to child roles, so any changes to the parent role will be available to any child role instantly. That solution requires Role Hierarchy addon and is probably best suited your use case.