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Require Capability to View Woocommerce Product
I am using Woocommerce and I have products in a category called B2B whose single_product.php is only to be shown to people with the capability read_b2b.
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
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Custom taxonomy not working after capability change
I have a custom taxonomy, that worked fine. Until I did the following:
Added new role
Assigned a new capability for the taxonomy
Created new post type, and assigned the taxonomy to it (The cpt name ...
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Restrict edit, but allow preview for custom post status
I am developing a Wordpress site with Edit Flow plugin, so I can create custom post statuses to manage author and contributor posts more easily.
So I have created custom post status and I've got ...
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Allow Administrator role access to custom capabilities
I'm currently developing a Wordpress business directory plugin with a 'business' custom post type. I have it creating a custom 'business_author' user role on activation and assigning specific ...
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Create new capability but restrict to specific page
I am using a custom upload box to allow a subscriber to upload their own avatar. currently the upload is failing as subscribers do not have media upload permissions.
I do not really want to enable ...
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Roles and Capabilities in Custom Post Types
Is there a way to create one role with one capability and apply it to some of the custom post types?
What I am doing right now is ending up with applying capabilities to all of the posts..
creating ...
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How do I create a custom role capability?
I wish to create a custom capability for accessing the interface of my plugin.
Should the plugin manage adding this capability to all the administrator accounts on activation?
If so: Does WordPress ...
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Conflict between Capabilities and Menu Visibility with Custom Post Types
I hope this isn't just the result of typo on my end, but if it is, I'm not seeing it.
I'm adding a custom post type to my site. Actually I'm adding three. Two of them I'm trying to set custom ...
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Capability to read user's own draft post of CPT
I've got a custom role called 'Gym' and custom post type (CPT) called 'Story'. Every Gym user can create a draft of a story and view their own story drafts.
My 'Story' CPT have got the following ...
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Wordpress capabilities on pending post status
I have user with contributor user role. In default if you publish article as contributor you can only view it and you can't delete or edit it. But when you submit new post for review, you can do all ...
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Allow Editors to edit pending posts but not draft ones
I have a large number of users with Editor Capabilities that help to go through the post submissions. This is my current setup for this role:
As you can see, they are allowed to edit_posts and ...
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User capability per post
According to Codex we can perform current_user_can checks for certain post_ID, but I fail to find any bit of info how to set a capability explicitly for that post_ID.
A follow up question - how to ...
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How can I have different groups of editors only allowed to edit certain parent+subpages?
I've tried a bunch of different plugins, including Role Scoper, Advanced Access Manager, User Account Manager and more, to accomplish this but can't seem to get it working right.
Basically, the ...
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Select subscriber as author of post in admin panel?
I want to be able to select a subscriber an author of a post in the admin so it displays their name as having written the post, but I do not want to give them any additional privileges (if they login ...
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How to make a plugin appear only to a certain role of user?
I'm using a plugin called "Team Result", to create team results and things like that. It appeared on the dashboard for admin(me). As you can see in this print ...
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Read only capability for custom post in admin area
I'm actually building custom type to WP and need to be able to restrict post access to some user role, ie. in admin area, collaborators can see posts but can't edit them, just only open them as ...
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Purpose of Adding Capability to Role But Not Grant?
I am attempting to create a custom role upon activation of my plugin. Along with that role, I wanted to add new capability to that role to access later. Now, after reading the Codex, I am totally ...
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Unify the roles and caps?
I installed several plugins(buddypress-docs,achievement,bbpress), each one create capabilities for their own post_type.
I would prefer to make all roles and capabilities unified into one system, Is ...
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Completely remove ability to create users?
I have added the code below to a plugin:
add_action( 'admin_init', 'remove_add_users_cap' );
function remove_add_users_cap() {
$role = get_role( 'administrator' );
$role->remove_cap( ...
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Adding a capability to a role doesn't apply users that hold the role
When my theme is activated (after_switch_theme hook) I add caps to administrator role but it doesn't affect caps of the admin user.
$user_roles = new WP_ROLES();
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How to let a role handle media without post permissions
I have a CPT to replace my "post"-post-type, but I still need to be able to use attachments. The problem is, that attachments have the post-capabilities.
I don’t want to give post capabilities to my ...
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Unable to delete custom post types, confusion around capabilities
So I'm working on a plugin for creating a questions/answers system that's as simple and well-integrated as possible (not unlike this site) but am stuck at the creation of the custom post types.
You ...
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What is the difference between “create_users” and “add_users” capabilities?
The codex lists both create_users and add_users under roles and capabilities.
Does anyone know what is the difference between these two?
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pages not found for custom user role
I've created a custom user role for my clients to allow them to manage theme options, and all the other capabilities that the default admin has with the exception of several capabilities that would ...
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Is it wise not to use only meta capabilities for certain basic post types?
I've been a WP developer for a couple of years now but only recently has the concept of meta vs. primitive capabilities really "clicked" with me. I'm building some tools right now to allow easy ...
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“sufficient permissions” error for admin after duplicating WP database to new install
I recently copied the tables from a live WP install to a dev site for that same site. I've changed all the prefixes, the site/WP URLs, and the salt values.
I can successfully log into the new dev ...
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Custom role, capabilities, and post type: preview button wrecks things
I'm using the Members plugin to manage capabilities of a custom role that will only be able to edit/publish a custom post type that I created in my functions.php file. After much work, I got this ...
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WordPress SEO by Yoast: Hide Meta boxes in posts for non-admins
I have multi-author website and I am not very comfortable for allowing all members to enter SEO details in the posts they are publishing. I would like this would be visible only to Administrator of ...
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Adding Custom Capabilites
So, I'm not sure if this is possible, but is it possible to add custom Capabilities?
So, I've written a group message application, that ties in with Wordpress. I only want certain members (set via ...
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cap_key problem when sharing users and usermeta tables with two installation
I'm following this Custom User and Usermeta Tables to share users and usermeta tables with two installation.
define('CUSTOM_USER_TABLE', 'bloga_users');
define('CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE', ...
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Remove Ability for Other Users to View Administrator in User List?
(Moderator's note: Original title was "Remove Admin from User Menu")
I have created a client administrator role which is essentially an Editor with ability to add/remove users. The article "Editor ...
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Role that can edit only widgets, not other theme options
How could I make particular role access widgets administration menu (wp-admin/widgets.php), but not access other theme administration menu elements.
I have got that far as to display Appearance menu ...
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Creating a folder structure
My WP site has a members area which they pay to get access to.
I want that area to be a subfolder, so something like site.com/premium/nameofpage.
I am aware of url rewriting, htaccess etc. Is that ...
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Adding capabilities to super admins
I'm developing a plugin that uses custom capabilities. Some of those capabilities need to be added to all users who are super admins. Currently, I'm using this code:
$supers = get_super_admins();
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edit_comment capability for subscriber
I have given my site's subscriber role the following permissions (unserialized DB-query):
[subscriber] => Array
(
[name] => Reader
[capabilities] => Array
(
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How do you set up a WordPress blog with multiple authors to allow something like StackExchange's “community wiki” feature?
I'm thinking about having a blog with multiple authors. In the WordPress Roles documentation, authors can publish posts but only edit their own and not posts by other authors, which is what I'm ...
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Temporarily give 'manage_options' capability
In order to allow editors to edit other's author meta (update_user_attribute), I must give them the 'manage_options' capability or else I get a 'Cheatin' huh' die message. I only want to give them ...
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Grant access to admin menu?
I'm trying to grant the user role 'editor' to have access to the Users top-level menu, and then control which sub-menus they have access to. The add_action lives in the _construct method.
add_action( ...
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How to assign multiple roles for capabilities array withini register_taxonomy function?
I am not sure how to add multiple capabilities to 'assign_terms' capability.
My code is below, notice the capabilities array within the register_taxonomy function
/* Registers taxonomies. */
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Reset Roles (or undo role changes on theme change)
I am creating a theme that deletes some user roles that are not necessary and creates others. (It deletes author and contributor and renames subscriber).
Everything works, but on theme deactivation, ...
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Limit access to page depending on user level
I've been asked to build a WordPress that limits access to posts with a particular custom post type based on the logged in users level. There will be a number of pre made user roles and they would ...
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Prevent Editors from Editing/Deleting Admin Accounts
I need editors to be able to add/edit/delete other users. Giving them those capabilities is easy with code similar to this:
$editor = get_role('editor');
$editor->add_cap('edit_users');
The ...
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Possible to hide Custom Post Type UI/Menu from specific User Roles?
What I'm looking to do is completely hide the UI for a custom post type from specific user roles...Ive previously found many resources on how to disable access to using those CPTs but nothing that ...
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Show Welcome Panel on Dashboard for every user
I have customised the welcome panel on the dashboard for users with information in. I then hid the "Dismiss" button and added CSS to make the welcome panel always visible. Using the 'welcome_panel' ...
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User capability of create page/new page
I am working with the Role and Capabilities API for the first time today and making use of the the excellent Members plugin. Having tinkered around for some time I notice that the "edit pages" ...
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Custom Post Type & Role Capabilities
Thanks to Matthew Boynes I was able to get user roles edited for one of my CPTs using a very elegant solution found here. Now I'm trying to get the same capabilities added to a 2nd CPT and for some ...
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Can someone explain Wordpress caching, and what's the best in my scenario?
I'm creating a website that has two basic user groups: Subscribers and Editors. Bot can create posts via a custom form using wp_insert_post(), but Editors are allowed to mark a post as private, ...
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Apply custom role capabilities to administrator (without plugin)
I have a custom role that allows access to only a sigle custom post type. This is all well and good, but now it is only showing up for this role, not for admin and super admin. I'm having a hard time ...
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How do you add custom taxonomy capabilities exactly?
I can't see to get it. The capabilities fail to appear when using plugins like "Capability Manager" or "Members" to view a list of available capabilities.
This is the code I'm attempting to use:
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custom post type capabilities - needs to be VERY secure
Hi I'm trying to define custom post type capabilities for staff contracts on an intranet site, so due to the sensitivity of the information this needs to have as best security as possible and simply ...
