for questions regarding permissions of different user groups in wordpress
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Can't Install Standard Plugins on a Local MAMP installation
I've tried to install two standard plugsins (wp-touch was one). I have a local installation under OS 10.6 and MAMP which otherwise seems to work fine. I select the zip file but get the error ...
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Assign a group of users to do anything with a group of posts
I took a look at Role Scoper (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/role-scoper/) but after about 20 minutes of playing around and trying to understand how it works I couldn't get it to do what I ...
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wp_signon gives error insufficient_permissions
This seems odd to me because if you're signing on a user you shouldn't already be signed in... therefore your permissions shouldn't matter.
It may be a bit of an odd way of going about it, so that ...
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Can't use the built-in wordpress install/upgrade plugin feature
When I try to upgrade or install a plugin I get a successful message:
Downloading install package from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/jquery-lightbox-gallery.zip…
Unpacking the package…
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Restrict access to specific content
I need to create several users in WP and to restrict their permissions to specific contents.
For example: I create a custom content type called "Cook Profile" with several text fields and the ...
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Disable Media Uploads to non Admin Users
I am working on a clients site, one of the features they want is for his Editors or Authors to only be able to select existing images to insert into Posts from the Media Library.
So looking at the ...
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Custom Role does not have access to dashboard
I was just adding a custom role by using the add_role() function. Here is the code below:
add_role('user', 'User', array('read'));
I figured this would give the same level of access as the ...
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Allow User to Edit Page Based on their Email
Quick Info
I am using the Posts 2 Posts plugin in order to create a relation between Teachers and the Classes they teach.
The teacher's page is a custom post type of faculty in which teachers are ...
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Permission denied in template-loader .php
Oh man.
I tried to create a custom page template for a page on my site
page-cumberland-principles.php
When I go to view that page, the page showed up completely blank.
I used wp_debug, and found ...
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Custom WP plugin installation permission problem
I've developed a custom plugin for WP. When I install it manually on my server, using FTP transfer, all is perfectly working.
I tried to make a zip file and uploading it through WP admin panel. All ...
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Connection Information when Installing Plugins
I'm getting the Connection Information error when trying to install a plugin. Steps I have already done:
sudo usermod -a -G www-data shutter
sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www
sudo chmod -R g+w ...
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Are these wp-content permissions safe?
I have just started out with a VPS running centos 6.3 to host my blog and play around. After Installing WordPress 3.5.1, when I tried to install some plugins from the admin console, it complained of ...
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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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Does WordPress have fine-grained view permissions?
I am considering using WordPress for a number of users in overlapping groups, e.g. a user may be in group A and group B, or only group A.
Is it possible to use WordPress to limit access to particular ...
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Is it possible to block subscriber users to changing its password?
I want to disable changing password option for all my subscriber users.
Is it possible by doing any code tweak or something using any plugin?
If someone has any idea or plugin knowledge to do this ...
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Update post counts (published, draft, unattached) in admin interface
I am working on a multi-user WordPress setup and have made it so a particular type of user can only see and interact with posts, images, pages etc that they have authored. The code to make this happen ...
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Multi site and media uploader
There seems to be a strange issue with my multisite on my live blog. Maybe its because I have one site set to "deleted" - so I can edit it, but the public can't see it?
My current upload is set up as ...
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How to upload prc file type?
When I try to upload a *.prc file type, I get this error:
Sorry, this file type is not permitted for security reasons.
How can I fix this?
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Wordpress is giving a permissions error on plugin submission [closed]
I'm creating a new plugin (based on a previous plugin I created that works). The options pages show up fine but when I submit I get the "You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page." ...
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Custom Theme Options page permission issue
I've created a custom theme options page for my theme. I've added the manage_options and edit_theme_options capabilities to the editor role and those are definitely working properly. I can save items ...
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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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How to prevent a post from being deleted?
For auditing issue, I only want a post can be trashed, but not deleted - for all users.
So I have a plugin like
add_action('before_delete_post', function($id) {
wp_die(0);
});
But ...
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Advanced Custom Fields - Disable Users to Edit Custom Fields
I don't really know how to explain this, so this will most probably not make much sense.
Basically, I made a custom field (drop-down selection) for the Add/Edit User page, and I want to be the only ...
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Authors can edit all posts, except when an owner is specified?
I'm trying to do as follows:
All users can edit all posts from other authors (sort of wiki)
Some posts have an "owner". When owner is specified only this user can edit the post.
Do you have any ...
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Troubleshoot “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
I recently changed the database table prefix from wp_ to something else, for security reasons.
Since then, I am unable to reach /wp-admin, instead receiving
You do not have sufficient permissions ...
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Submit for review instead of publish
I have been migrated a bunch of website with multi-site configuration to a IIS server. The issue is even the administrator can't add a new post the publish button has been reverted into submit for ...
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Can't install new plugins because of the error “Could not create directory”
A faculty member is having difficulties with a instructional wordpress install. Fixing individual permission problems has been hit and miss, and have become a perennial pain, so I'll ask here. What ...
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Roles for Custom Post Types
I created some custom post types, but I would like to hide them in the dashboard from Subscribers, Authors, and Editors (essentially, just allow administrators to access them).
Can I do this without ...
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Problem uploading files, after changing domain name
I just changed my WordPress website domain name (on the same server). Everything works fine, and the paths are correct. I can install plugins and updates without any problem.
However, I can only ...
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Create Read Only Admin
Is there an easy way to create an admin user that has read only permissions? That is, they can login and see everything an admin can, but they cannot change anything at all.
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Editing Wordpress Permissions in LAMP - Ubuntu 11.10
I'm hosting a local version of my wordpress theme on Ubuntu 11.10. However, LAMP is installed in a directory that requires sudo privileges. When I try to add images or any outside content to my ...
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Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable
I am trying to upgrade my version of Wordpress but I get this error:
Destination directory for file streaming does not exist or is not writable.
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WORDPRESS permalinks and page store
I posted this on stackoverflow and they said i can try here -
I have wordpress installed on my website. On that site, under a subfolder i have oscommerce system installed as online commerce store.
...
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Restrict users on multisite WordPress install
I have a series of sites that I maintain as part of a WordPress multisite install. I'd like to be able to create users accounts that are restricted to viewing only a single one of these sites. Is ...
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What capability is required to view posts, scheduled in the future, by someone else?
So, I'm trying to create a number of custom roles within my theme to meet with the custom requirements of the site.
The first, and most simple, being 'external viewer' who I want to simply be able to ...
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File and directory permissions
I installed latest WordPress 3.5 in my CentOS server. When I tried accessing http://example.com/wp-includes/, I received a listing of the directory: (Index of wp-includes).
I added the following code ...
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Problem with permissions in wp-content/plugins
I have a WP installation on my local machine and trying to get my hands dirty with plugins. I wish to clone a project from github which has this plugin code. However, i dont have the permissions ...
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Default installation permissions for wp-config.php
Recently I've noticed that many of the wordpress installations we have on our servers where being attacked and ifected by this thing
...
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Plugin/Folder permission issues with Azure
Has anyone come across plugin issues when using Wordpress with Azure?
I recently spun up a free wordpress install on azurewebsites.net, using PHP 5.4 and Wordpress 3.5.
Once plugin in particualr, ...
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Reapproval for edits and deletion after post is published
I regularly have guest authors who post one or more articles on a non specific schedule. So I provide them with permanent contributor accounts to avoid the hassle of making them accounts and deleting ...
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How to to secure Wordpress file and folder permissions
I've read articles about protecting wp-config.php using .htaccess as well as setting the correct file permissions but I want it all in one place. What should my .htaccess file look like and what ...
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Plugins will only be installed with 777 on folder. Solution?
I'm 100% not the first asking this question, yet I want to have this question be answered to my situation..
I got Wordpress installed on my server (I host it at Versio.nl) and configured whole ...
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Prevent users in the backend from seeing WP/Plugin notifications and update annoucements?
Currently when logged into the backend, sometimes when a plugin has an update or Wordpress has an update a notification message appears at the top either telling the user to upgrade or if a plugin ...
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Can't install plugins using the dashboard on IIS7 / Win2008 R2 [closed]
Ok, this is driving me nuts.
I have a wordpress blog installed on a Windows Server 2008 R2 64bits machine.
I want to install some plugins using the dashboard but I always get the screen asking for ...
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Expanding the allowed HTML tags in comments?
I have no problem doing this in a comment, as an administrator:
<b>bold test</b> <i>italics test</i>
<u>underline test</u> <font
color="#ff9900"> color ...
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plugin install wants ftp (chown and 755 not enough)
I have root access in ssh to my install (and other wp install working) so im not sure what i missed...
installing plugins through the wp-admin interface, it wants me to input ftp. i remember this ...
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Network Admin “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
I have had trouble logging into WP-Admin with my admin account.
I have reset my password, and I can now log-in to WP-Admin, but cannot reach Network Admin (/wp-admin/network), instead receiving "You ...
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Moved Wordpress site to new server, directory permissions not working correctly
I built a Wordpress on my hosting space and then transferred it my clients server - followed all the instructions and pretty much everything works fine.
The ONLY problem I have is that the directory ...
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How do I let contributors edit their posts after being approved once?
As above
Background info
Main problem: users pay to post an ad on the website
Solution: they sign up as contributors and I publish their posts once the payment is received, after that they can make ...
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JW Player for wordpress fails to install [closed]
I need to install jw player for wordpress plugin. After activating it I get the following errors telling me that the uploads directory is not writable and I am sure that it is. I don't know why this ...
