Names for a set of user capabilities.
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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 ...
11
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How to change a user's role?
I have custom roles in my setup and I want to be able to automatically change a user's role thru a function. Say user A has a SUBSCRIBER role, how do I change it to EDITOR? When adding a role we just: ...
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Site admin in a network install can't edit users?
For the Stack Exchange Community Blogs, we have a network install that we've set up. I am being told that the site administrator role is not allowing an option for user editing. On the site's users ...
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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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allow editors to edit menus?
I would like to be able to grant my editors the power to change the menu, can this be done?
The appearance tab doesn't appear to be an option at all, can I make it so?
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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 ...
6
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alphabetically order role drop-down selection in dashboard
The site I'm working on will have a very large number of unique user roles via a members plugin. Because of that, I'd like to have the Role drop-down selection on the Add New User page to display ...
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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, ...
6
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add_role() run only once?
I was surprised to discover that add_role() modifies the database and fails if the role already exists. There are two implications here, one first more serious than the other: 1) if you're in ...
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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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Allow member to have access to custom post type only. Permission to only edit their own posts
OK I'm looking for the best way to attack this.
I'm very comfortable with PHP and making custom post types with custom meta fields in WordPress.
Here is what I'm looking at doing:
User registers ...
5
votes
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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 ...
5
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1answer
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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 ...
4
votes
2answers
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How to check if a user is in a specific role?
I have a pretty specific requirement to show different text in a field label on the user profile page based on the current user's role. I can't seem to figure out how to check whether the current use ...
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How to get role of user
I need to get the role associated with a user -- not the "currently logged in user".
I am using Buddypress (not that should matter to the nature of this question) and I am in the bp_members() loop.
...
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2answers
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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..
4
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1answer
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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 ...
4
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1answer
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How can I display all Multisite blogs where this user is administrator?
Given the user ID, how can I display all the blogs where this user is administrator?
I tried:
<?php
$user_id = 2;
$user_blogs = get_blogs_of_user( $user_id );
echo '<ul>';
foreach ...
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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.
...
4
votes
1answer
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How to remove administrator role in settings -> general -> New User Default Role?
I don't want to accidentally select Administrator role.
So is there a way to remove it from Settings -> General -> New User Default Role ?
4
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1answer
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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:
...
4
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1answer
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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 ...
3
votes
4answers
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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 ...
3
votes
2answers
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How to hide media uploads by other users in the Media menu?
Simply put - how might I completely hide media files uploaded by any other users other then themselves? Id like to disable access to these links & files since they are a way for non-admin users to ...
3
votes
1answer
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Change role after the user has read all the posts in a category
I'm creating a platform with "X" categories and "X" roles with the same name to each category.
I would like to know how to change the user's role after they have read all the posts in a category. ...
3
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Disallow user from editing their own profile information
I'm currently developing an intranet and I am using Justin Tadlock's Members plugin to control roles and capabilities.
I have created a HR role to allow Human Resources staff to create and edit user ...
3
votes
2answers
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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 ...
3
votes
2answers
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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 ...
3
votes
2answers
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How can I hide a category from Contributors in the edit/add new post screen?
I have a situation where I need to hide a specific category and it's children from users who are logged in as Contributors. I don't want them to see this category and it's children in the categories ...
3
votes
1answer
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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 ...
3
votes
1answer
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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 ...
3
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Find out if logged in user is not subscriber
Is there any conditional tag which will allow me to display the certain content only if the user is NOT a subscriber?
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Change Author Base Slug for different Roles
is it possible to change the author base slug in dependency of the role? For example, authors get example.com/ninja/%username% and subscribers get example.com/trainee/%username% ?
I am thinking of ...
3
votes
1answer
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Separate registration and login for different roles
I've set 2 new roles for my site using the "Members" plugin - "sellers" and "buyers".
Each role should have its own registration page and login.
A visitor can register as both a buyer and a seller ...
3
votes
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Associating an “author” with a custom taxonomy
I have a custom role, "Ministry Representative", which is able to log in and create and manage their own "Opportunities" and "Events", which is each a custom post type.
On the front end of the site, ...
3
votes
1answer
737 views
Help to condense/optimize some working code
WordPress by default shows ALL posts to users who are Authors. I wanted Authors to only be able to see their own posts so I came up with the following code which works well.
Any suggestions to ...
3
votes
2answers
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Can i copy administrator role to another user?
can i copy the role of administrator to another user and remove few capabilities not required ?. Basically, i want to have a user with restricted admin privileges.
3
votes
1answer
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Send a confirmation of user role upgrade conditionally
I'm using this snippet of code to send a confirmation email to user's when their account is upgraded to a new user role.
function user_role_update( $user_id, $new_role ) {
$site_url = ...
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votes
1answer
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Allow roles below admin to add subscribers only
I want to give a group of user types (Editor + a custom role) the add_users /create_users capability. The only catch is that I wanted to limit that capability to adding 'subscriber' type users only, ...
3
votes
1answer
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Customize the upload screen
I would need to simplify the "upload new image" interface for our Authors : basically, hide a few fields that will only confuse my wordpress "authors" (like the "Description" and "Alt" text inputs). ...
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User roles - enable custom posts disable posts
Im just wondering if its possible to create user role that allows to write/edit custom post type for example: Consultants, but not allow to write normal posts (used for as news for example).
I know ...
3
votes
1answer
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Return ID of authors who have at least one post
I found a great piece of code here that returns the ID's of users by role. What I would like to do is modify it so it only returns the ID's of the users who have at least one post. I have tried to ...
3
votes
1answer
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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 ...
3
votes
1answer
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Roles at registration (classipress)
I have a classipress site and want to have the user choose upon registering with the site if they are a teacher, or student. These will be different roles. I have been trying to get roles at ...
3
votes
4answers
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How do I allow a specific Role in Wordpress 3+ to only see certain plugins?
I am familiar with user roles and how to change them within Wordpress 3+, My problem is when I disable a user from being able to view plugins, all plugins are disabled from view. How do I let them see ...
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Is it possible to get a user with just the password field?
I tried doing something like this:
$user = $wpdb->get_row('
SELECT *
FROM ' . $wpdb->users . '
WHERE user_pass = "' . wp_hash_password('password') . '"'
);
But the ...
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How can I allow the Editor Role to change Theme Settings?
I've just setup a new Blog for a friend and thought it's better to not give him Administrator Access right away as a pre-caution.
I created a new user as Editor therefore.
But then I saw that this ...
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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?
