Tagged Questions

0
votes
0answers
13 views

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 ...
0
votes
1answer
24 views

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 ...
0
votes
0answers
22 views

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 ...
0
votes
0answers
34 views

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 ...
0
votes
1answer
28 views

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 ...
5
votes
1answer
114 views

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 ...
0
votes
0answers
25 views

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 ...
1
vote
0answers
27 views

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 ...
0
votes
0answers
16 views

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(); ...
0
votes
0answers
40 views

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 ...
2
votes
2answers
63 views

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?
1
vote
1answer
33 views

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 ...
0
votes
1answer
87 views

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 ...
3
votes
1answer
112 views

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 ...
0
votes
1answer
48 views

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( ...
0
votes
2answers
166 views

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, ...
1
vote
1answer
76 views

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 ...
0
votes
0answers
136 views

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 ...
0
votes
2answers
169 views

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() ) : ?> <?php ...
2
votes
1answer
173 views

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 ...
0
votes
1answer
87 views

How to give “author” user role appropriate capabilities to add PollDaddy polls? WordPress multisite

At the moment, users with role "Author" can only view but not add or edit polls. "Editor" and "Administrator" (site administrator) can add and edit polls however. This is despite the fact that I ...
1
vote
1answer
60 views

Pending status by default for a specific role

I would like to prevent users from one specific role from publishing directly their articles. Only administrators should be able to approve these. The only choice they would ever have is to put their ...
0
votes
1answer
185 views

How to restrict specific post types from being read or added by specific user roles (eg. author)?

I'm not very clear how to restrict admin area post types access to specific user roles. In my case, I have some post type such as "suppliers" which I do not want to show to "authors". By default WP ...
0
votes
1answer
61 views

Custom post type & role issues

I am having issues with using custom post types and custom user roles. I created a custom post type called Businesses. Then I created capabilities for users of a certain type to be able to add and ...
4
votes
2answers
182 views

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. ...
1
vote
1answer
65 views

Is there a capability for managing plugin options?

I have an Editor user that I want to let use a plugin's options without being an Administrator. I can use $user->add_cap but can't tell if any particular capability relates to the permission to edit ...
-1
votes
1answer
66 views

Explanation of User Roles and Capabilities

I'm developing a Wordpress theme. In this theme, there are a few custom post types. Custom Post Types : book article event We are using Wordpress' default user roles (we can create new roles, if ...
0
votes
3answers
218 views

Check whether user can delete a given post

I have run into this problem where the following piece of code always returns true for any post ID supplied to it. current_user_can('delete_posts', $post_id); Normally, the above code should return ...
2
votes
1answer
122 views

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 ...
0
votes
1answer
44 views

Best Roles and Capability on a site with review features using a front end custom post

I'm working on a Movie Blog site, I'll be having a movie review for site members and planning to create/install plugin that can create a front-end post/edit using a custom post type for that reviews. ...
0
votes
1answer
57 views

User: Editor, can't see edit taxonomy screen

For some reason the Editor role does not get access to the edit taxonomy screen on my site. Maybe that is expected behavior, I dont know - But how can I add this to the editor role capabilities?
2
votes
1answer
627 views

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 ...
0
votes
0answers
14 views

Limit selectable roles when promoting [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to remove administrator role in settings -> general -> New User Default Role? I'm working with admin, editor, author and subscriber roles and would like to add ...
2
votes
1answer
207 views

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 ...
0
votes
1answer
1k views

Why is wp-login redirecting to the home page when I use this function?

I'm perplexed; I can't see where I'm going wrong with this code. It should redirect any subscriber-level users back to the site home page if they try to access anything within /wp-admin - but not if ...
0
votes
2answers
908 views

Custom wordpress admin page/url “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

Here's a custom wordpress admin page I created:- // code located in my custom plugin's php file function my_special_function(){ echo '<div> Hello World </div>'; } function ...
3
votes
4answers
1k views

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 ...
1
vote
1answer
350 views

can't see custom post content filtered under “mine” filter in admin panel

after creating a custom post type with custom post type UI plugin, and after creating the capabilities for a new role to edit, delete and publish it's own custom posts with User Role Editor plugin, ...
0
votes
3answers
1k views

How can I restore admin capabilities?

So yeah, I'm a genius. I managed delete all my admin capabilities (thank you very much Membership plugin). I could restore them, ...if I had admin access, lol. Anywhoo, how can I give all my ...
1
vote
1answer
144 views

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 ...
0
votes
1answer
547 views

Create a User Role with permissions to only upload files to the media library?

Some of the employees at my organization need to be able to upload files to a folder and share a link with others. It’s primarily documents like pictures, pdf’s and Word documents. And instead of ...
4
votes
2answers
739 views

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..
1
vote
1answer
942 views

How do I restrict user access to plugins?

I have created a new user role in my functions.php and set up booleans for each standard Wordpress capability (as listed on [the Wordpress ...
4
votes
1answer
2k views

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 ...
3
votes
2answers
3k views

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 ...
4
votes
1answer
535 views

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: ...
6
votes
4answers
2k views

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, ...
0
votes
0answers
436 views

User roles and custom post type confusion [closed]

I am getting a bit confused by a complex user roles situation and hoping someone can clarify. My site has content added by student Film Directors. I created a new user role ('Directors') so that each ...
5
votes
3answers
2k views

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?
2
votes
1answer
391 views

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

1 2