How to define custom user roles in WordPress with the User Management in Greyd.Suite
In this tutorial Sandra walks you through the User Management in Greyd.Suite and shows how you can create custom user roles with finely tuned capabilities. This lets you control who can see, edit or manage specific parts of your website, which is essential for gated content, editorial workflows or customer-specific areas.
Sandra starts with the user overview, where you can see all users on your site, adjust roles and add new users. From there she explores the “Roles” section, where you can create your own roles and choose exactly which actions each role is allowed to perform. You can even use an existing role as a starting point to speed things up. Custom meta fields, such as company or department, can also be added for richer user data and better filtering.
The tutorial covers how to customize login, logout, registration, and password-reset links, including redirect rules if someone tries to access an admin page they shouldn’t. You’ll also learn how to set up SMTP for improved email deliverability and how to edit the user and admin emails that WordPress sends.
Sandra then switches to the network admin view to explain how the same tools work across multisite, including which emails can only be edited at network level.
Finally you’ll see practical examples: hiding entire pages or sections from certain user roles, controlling access with the “exclude this post for” option, and using Dynamic Content to show different blocks depending on who is logged in. This also includes role-based popups, personalised areas and flexible gated-content setups.
Greyd.Suite extends WordPress Core with a full user-management layer, granular access control and a dynamic-content engine, while staying fully compatible with the block editor. This gives you enterprise-level control without leaving the native WordPress workflow.
Learn how to manage user roles with precision and build secure, role-based experiences in Greyd.Suite.
Here you can access our documentation about user management in Greyd.Suite: https://docs.greyd.io/docs/greyd-plug...
00:00 User Management
00:27 User Overview
00:40 Create User
00:52 Create new role
02:02 URLs & Redirects
02:38 User & Admin Emails
03:45 Network Administration
04:55 Gated Content
05:36 Dynamic Content