Names for a set of user capabilities.

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wp_update_user not updating

In desperation I am asking for help in this forum too - if someone (ANYONE!) could take a look a this post and see if they could help I'd be eternally grateful ...
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Reservations as Post

I am creating a multi-user, multi-product, multi-product-category reservations engine proof of concept. As I need to build it really fast I am using Wordpress's custom post types to manage a lot of ...
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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() ) : ?> <?php ...
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Welcome Mails based on user role

hope you can help me. users can chose between subscriber and editor role on my website. now, i'd like to send a register welcome mail to EDITORS only (WITH a specific) text. subscribers must not ...
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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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Admin comments and user restrictions

I have set a bunch of roles within wordpress with the help of the "members" plugin. But the capabilities regarding the comments moderation are very limited ("manage_others_comments" or not) What I ...
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Want to be able to sign up subscribers as authors

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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edit role display name and label name without plugins

I'am creating WordPress function for editing role name function change_role_name($role_name, $new_role_name, $display_name) { global $wp_roles; if ( ! isset( $wp_roles ) ) $wp_roles ...
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How do I allow anyone to edit a post — but not access dashboard

I have a a business directory using premium press theme ---- I want all registered users -- to be able to edit and publish, upload images to any listing that has not been secured by payment. I do ...
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Admin permission for creating blogs in multisite

How can I do that ? I have some blogs and anyone can register and build a new blog . I'd like to limit them just to visit and comment not to build a new blog unless I allow them .
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Need to block user role from accessing bbPress all together

I've been looking at some options and I haven't seen a full solution to what I need. I need to block certain user_roles from accessing bbPress all together and from seeing the link to the page. Any ...
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Displaying content to search engines but via navigation only for registered users.

Displaying certain information depending on if a user is registered is quite easy as I have been using this code <?php if (current_user_can(‘subscriber’)) { ?> [content here] <?php } ...
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Authors Ability to Review Post from Contributors

I am developing a CMS using WordPress. I have different user roles. I have different departments and I want users (Role of contributors) to post items that would be submitted for review by Users ...
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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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Restrict custom post type view by user role

I've created a custom post type and created a couple of custom user roles and want to be able to restrict the view of the post type based on the specific roles. Is there a straightforward way 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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How can I change my assigned user role in WordPress 3.5.1?

My current user role is "Administrator". I'd like to change my role to "Editor" (through out database field). I read Database_Description, but it did not help.
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Restrict admin access to certain pages for certain users

As the title says, I'd like to restrict back-end access to certain pages for certain users. While doing a site with 45-50 pages, I realised it would be a much better user experience if the Page menu ...
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Display User Role Next To Comment

I've search around but I can't seem to find exactly what I'm looking for and for the first time I don't even know where to start. How do I display the user role (Admin, Editor, Author Contributor, ...
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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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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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When using a user role editor how to find out any plugins' or themes' role?

Suppose I'm using a Theme which has a custom panel in the admin area, or I'm using a Plugin, has similar Admin menu button. But all such button are only visible to Administrator. When I'm loggin in ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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?
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each user having category with their name and can add sub categories post in that category

I am looking for help or plugin for the following conditions of my site I am using wordpress 3.0+ version. my site is about School where students will get register and post their experience and ...
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Multisite and users being listed on network administration dashboard and not main site dashboard

I have a main site that is a buddypress site. I later converted main site to a multisite configuration. Now, when people sign up they are put on my network administration dashboard as a user and not ...
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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 ...
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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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bbPress: How to set conditional for specific user -or- user role, to be displayed in user profile

I've been trying to set a conditional for specific users (e.g. http://www.mywebsite.org/forum/users/john/) to display a custom "Contributor" graphic within their user profiles. The graphic would be ...
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How to remove “Super Admin” from All Users for those that are not a “Super Admin”?

I would like to remove the filter at the top that says "Super Admin" for users that are not a "Super Admin". How do I go about doing this? This screenshot shows what I am talking about:
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Selectively applying action based on role

I've added an action to my functions.php file that forces a plugin (Content Scheduler) to act on posts, even when it wasn't explicitly enabled by the person writing the post. I've got that working, ...
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Remove Menu Item for users other than admin in Woocommerce

I want to remove a few menu items from the Products tab of Woocommerce when anyone below the level of an admin is logged in. Specifically, I would like to remove the categories, tags, shipping ...
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author ROLE is showing NONE on admin panel

recently i have migrate my wp blog to a new server. but on the new server everything is working fine. but my author are not able to login. then i checked the admin panel all user. there i can see lots ...
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wp user role,username and email id is missing on wp admin panel

i am facing a totally strange problem on my wordpress blog. recently i have migrate my wp blog to a new server. but on the new server everything is working fine. but my author are not able to login. ...
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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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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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Remove Adminstrator Hyperlink from a user having role to add and see users

I have create a user role using Advance Access Manager wordpress plugin having role to see, add and remove users name as site_admin. When user login with his Id he is able to see the adminstrator and ...
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Advanced search: roles and multiple taxonomies

I have a site with custom roles, and custom taxonomies. I'm making the advanced search, where custom posts can be filtered by roles and taxonomies. To accomplish this, I'm using my own custom SQL ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Can Contributor post to WordPress via XML RPC?

I have a function that creates a post in my WordPress site every time a specific function runs. It uses XML-RPC and works great with my admin user, but when I try to use a contributor account, nothing ...
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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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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 ...