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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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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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can't change footer

I've looked at all the help for changing footers but I still have the same problem - I go to appearance, editor, footer.php, change the telephone number that had been previously entered, hit update, ...
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Remove wordpress author's capability to moderate comments on their own posts

WordPress authors have permission to edit others comments on their own post. How to disable this and still allow the authors to edit their published posts?
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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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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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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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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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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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Admins can't edit each other's posts

After I imported content from another wordpress site using the WXR export/import tools, my admins can't edit each other's posts. This is really aggravating because I can't figure out how to change ...
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Basic File/Post restriction plugin

I am looking for a plugin that allows me to restrict access for a individual post/page to a specific role or individual. It also needs to restrict files attached to that post. I have tried several ...
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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 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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Wordpress - Public side and Private side

I'm wanting to setup a Wordpress site which has posts for public view and some which are only seen by people that are logged in (authors etc). I dont want the public people to see "Restricted Content" ...
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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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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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bbPress permissions denied

bbPress settings on backend side gives me "You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page." error. It gave me such error several times. First time I found a solution as forums suggested ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...