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Editor can create any new user except administrator
I have set up a WordPress site for a client. The client has the Editor role, however I have installed the Members plugin and given the client the capability to add new users to the WP admin. This is ...
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Getting a List of Currently Available Roles on a WordPress Site?
When writing WordPress plugins there is often a need to set up options for which roles on the site have access to certain functionality or content. To do this a plugin dev needs to fetch the list of ...
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Groups of capabilities: users with multiple roles?
I'm pretty sure I understand the roles and capabilities setup in WordPress: granular capabilities, grouped together in roles that can be assigned to users. Code should check the granular capabilities, ...
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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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Is there way to rename user role name without plugin?
Is there anyway to rename a user role name via hook, instead of using plugin?
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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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Defining capabilities for custom post type
On creation of a custom post type I'm trying to define capabilities but it's not working. What's wrong with this code?
$args = array(
'labels' => $labels,
'public' => true,
...
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Disallowing Users of a Custom Role from Deleting or Adding Administrators?
(Moderator's note: The original title was "Custom User Role Restrictions")
A project I am working on requires me to create two new user roles - one for the owner of the website and the other for ...
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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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How can I create a taxonomy meta-box with search suggestions but no new terms input?
I was wondering how I could setup a taxonomy metabox on a post edit page that would be similar to the "tags" kind (with search field and automatic suggestions), but without the right to add a new ...
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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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How to create a clone role in wordpress
How to create new role with same capabilities of existing role.
Eg: I would like to create a new role with same capabilities of administrator or editor and so on..
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What exactly is WordPress?
These are some very basic questions, so I apologize for asking them, but it's hard to understand exactly how some things work without spending dozens of hours experimenting with them. I'm more than ...
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Can I make user role that can only access a certian content type?
I would like make a custom role that can only access a custom content type that I'm going to be creating in the admin. Is that possible and does any know of any examples or tutorias that I should ...
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Restrict Admin Capabilities in MultiSite
update_core
update_plugins
update_themes
install_plugins
install_themes
delete_themes
edit_plugins
edit_themes
Hi, I want to restrict those capabilities to user_id = ...
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Add custom user capabilities before or after the custom user role has been added?
Should custom user capabilities be added before the custom user role has been added, or the other way around?
add_role() asks for and array of $capabilities in the third
parameter of the function.
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Custom post type capabilities
I've got a somewhat unique scenario that I would appreciate some assistance with.
I have a custom post type, coin, for content that is automatically created by an custom import process. I would like ...
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Confusion with adding meta capabilities to a role after registering a Custom Post Type with corresponding 'capability_type' parameter
I got quite confused with Custom Post Type (CPT) 'capability_type' parameter and adding generated capabilities to a role.
So I've got a CPT called 'external_role' registered as following:
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How to assign specific users the capability to edit specific pages / posts / custom post types
I'm trying to implement what seemed like a relatively straight forward idea, basically I am building an access control plugin to control viewing and editing of a custom post type (in this case ...
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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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add_menu_page permissions - what am I doing wrong?
I am running a fresh install of Wordpress 3.3.2 and the only plugin enabled is one I'm developing, but I can't seem to get past a permissions issue in add_menu_page. With the exception of using ...
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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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How to add a Capability to a User Role?
I am managing a Wordpress network and would like to add the unfiltered_html user capability to the already predefined user role of Admin. In a standard installation of Wordpress the Admin account ...
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How to check user role without using current_user_can()
I am filtering the map_meta_cap() function, which is called from $user->has_cap (which is called from current_user_can()). I only want my filter to execute if the current user is an administrator, so ...
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Roles & capabilities GUI that does not create separate table
After reviewing plugins that deal with user roles and capabilities I concluded that I might be better off just hardcoding my settings into my functions.php file. This actually worked out well for me ...
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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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Restrict users from editing post based on the age of the post
How can I restrict users (based on Capabilities) from editing their published posts after a custom amount of time.
For instance, a user that can publish_posts (authors) can not edit a their post if ...
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The 'user_has_cap' hook seems to take two page loads to trigger
This question relates to another question I asked recently (http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/29009/how-to-assign-specific-users-the-capability-to-edit-specific-pages-posts-cus/), the ...
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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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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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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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Temporary capability for current_user_can()
Is it possible to intercept calls to current_user_can() ?
Example:
current_user_can('rate', $post_id)
There's no "rate" capability registered, but could I somehow hook into that function and do my ...
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What are the differences in capabilities between the super-administrator and administrator?
What are the capabilities that a super-administrator has that an administrator does not have?
The codex page on user capabilities does not have a list of capabilities of the super-admin. It lists ...
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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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Add user capability and check against it
I just realized the following:
// Call the current user info
global $current_user;
// Add a capability
// and set the 2nd argument ($grant) to false
$current_user->add_cap( 'some_cap', false );
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Allow user to Edit Posts but not Add New?
For one of my custom post types I want a specific user to be able to edit existing posts created by admin but not be able to Add New posts.
How can this be done?
If I define the user role as not ...
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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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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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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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Role Capabilities: Add New Ones?
I'm trying to create a private type of community ... and the current Capabilities are great, except for the fact that I don't want users of a certain Role being able to see anything that someone else ...
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How do I fix problems with users not being able to publish and only submit for review after upgrade of Multisites installation?
We have a previous WPMU installation that has been upgraded to a WordPress Multisites installation. Since upgrading to 3.3.2 from 3.2.1 we have problem with editors/admin not being able to post on ...
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How to programmatically add a user to a role?
I want to programmatically add the current user to a role and also remove the current user from a role in a php page i created . am really stuck. thanks in advance
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how to assign more permission to wordpress author
I have installed jw player plugin so that users of my site could upload their videos. Right now, admin can only see jw player menu on the admin panel and he can only upload videos and use this plugin. ...
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The delete_posts capability?
Shouldn't this remove the capability to delete a post? Even if I remove the delete_posts capability for an editor, he still can trash a post and then delete i permanently. That can't be right.
How do ...
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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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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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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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Problem using role_has_cap hook
I'm trying to filter a capability check in order to work around the lack of filters to customize the user edit page in the admin area. But I can't seem to add filters to a hook, and I'm sure I'm ...
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How to let contributors to create a new revision(draft) editing their published posts
I'm using a custom post type to let contributors have a personal page on the site.
Any time a user registers to my site a script creates a custom type post that has the registering user as author.
To ...
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When you create a custom post type, does that also create capabilities for editing/deleting that post type automatically?
For example, if I create a post type called "destinations" does that automatically create capabilities like "edit_destinations" or "delete_destinations"?
