Questions tagged [permissions]
for questions regarding permissions of different user groups in wordpress
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How to hide 'Submit for Review' button for a specific role in Wordpress?
Currently, I've got 2 roles which are Contributor and Editor, both of these roles are able to submit for review, but I only want Editor has this button and hide it for Contributor.
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Intermittent “You do not have permission to edit” showing up when posting
Sometimes (about 1 in 10 for me, more often for others) the alert shows up that says You do not have permission to edit when trying to save a post as pending, a draft, or publish it. User permissions ...
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read_post meta capability for anonymous users
read_post is a meta capability that can be used to check if a user can read a post. It can be used, for example, like this:
if ( current_user_can('read_post', $post_ID) ) {
// do something
}
No ...
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MAMP File Permissions
I am using MAMP Pro 4 on Windows 10 to develop WordPress sites.
When an image is imported into the media library, the original image is placed in the uploads folder without proper permissions. ...
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Cannot write file when logged out
Trying to write files with .php extensions doesn't work when not logged in. I've created the dummy function below that works fine (writes both files) when logged in as an Administrator. But when i'm ...
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Problems updating & installing plugins even with correct directory permissions
I have been working on a LAMP server with many Wordpress sites where it looks like many permissions and file ownerships were changed and this WP itself couldnt update nor could plugins be updated or ...
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How to make a plugin api route have permission?
Hi I have a plugin for bookings installed. I would like to make WP headless so I'm using api calls of course, and my plugin has api routes to call.
However, they are protected. :(
How do I go ...
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Create a custom “you dont have permission” message
How can I create a custom "you don't have permission" message?
I'd like to display some html here. Is that possible?
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Wordpress and Plugins can't be updated
I have a problem - when I click on "Wordpress update", I receive this message:
Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-5.1-new-bundled.zip… Unpacking the update… ...
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A WP dev site that displays content from a live site's database but cannot write to wp_posts?
Is there a way to setup a Wordpress site that uses another site's database but cannot write to specific tables (like wp_posts)?
Basically I'm trying to set up a testing site that I could use to test ...
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Create a custom User Role within a Child Theme
I want to make a very custom user role; i.e. a 'sub admin' if you will. Some things I'd like to do would be to disable the 'html abilities' from within the 'edit page or edit post' mode for this user (...
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Wordpress users table missing indexes
I had someone on fiverr design a wordpress website for me awhile back. They sent me the database when they were done and I imported it on my server and set everything up.
What I've since realized is ...
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Wordpress and Wordpress-test-lib not getting added to tmp folder
I’ve installed the wpcli and php unit testing to my imac and the wordpress and wordpress-test-lib files were added to my tmp folder as they should have. I used this to install the setup.
bash bin/...
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failed to open stream: Permission denied for WordPress plugin
I'm installing my website on a new hosting company. All WordPress directories are chmod to 775 and the owner (plus group) is my account username, the same owner as when I create new files manually.
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Is there any way to make myself an admin?
Long story short, my client has a website with another company. They didn't make him an admin, but he does have access to the dashboard. I can't tell what his role is, but it's probably along the ...
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Error “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page”
I renamed plugins folder, removed unused themes, checked wp_capabilities for my website, It's getting error like below after login page and redirecting to home page.
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Wordpress Posts from KC Section empty
Hello I installed a theme for wordpress and added an Author to add the content, author should use King Composer sections/templates library to Clone them inside new post.
But I am unable to get it ...
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Can't add or delete plugins - but I'm an admin [closed]
as the title says, I have Administrator privileges but I don't have the permission to add or delete plug-ins. (Button/Links just aren't on the page)
If I go to .../wp-admin/plugin-install.php I get ...
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Wordpress can't find temporary folder, but folder it's looking at has correct permissions
So, I've spent a couple of hours looking around the internet to try to figure out this problem, since it seems like a dumb one that would probably be a duplicate, but apparently it isn't.
I'm hosting ...
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How To Reset Ownership And Permissions of Wp-Content Folder, In Order to Fix HTTP Error When Uploading Images to WordPress Media Library
I've noticed several articles about how to deal with the HTTP error when uploading images to the WP Media library:
How to Fix HTTP Error When Uploading Images?
However, I've already tried adding ...
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Front-end submitted post is published with admin ID as author
I have a form for registered users to submit a post from the front-end of my site. The post is registered in a custom post type, all works.
But now that I have to add a button for the user to delete ...
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Restrict specific user to manages posts in specific category
I explain this with an example. In my blog I have 2 users:
John
Paul
that write posts. Posts have 2 categories (to be precise, it's a custom taxonomy):
Cats
Dogs
John manages the Cats section of ...
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wordpress editor role remove all but 'menus' in appearance menu
I'm trying to remove access to everything in the appearance menu in WP admin for the role editor. Or at the least, just remove access to themes and plugins. I have found how to remove the whole ...
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How to lock all published posts so only admin can unlock delete and update permission
Lets say one has a AUTHOR role that has published thousands of posts and one wants a way to lock all the published posts by admin so that the author can not delete or update the posts..is there a way ...
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Correct permissions for wp-signup.php and other files in wordpress for update?
I am trying to update my WordPress site to 4.9.8 but i get the error
The update cannot be installed because we will be unable to copy some files. This is usually due to inconsistent file ...
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Restrict the shop_manager role to the WooCommerce Orders Page
I want to show only the woocommerce orders page to shop_manager role, and restrict users with the shop_manager to only that admin page.
If not show them this message: Sorry, you are not allowed to ...
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Temporary Permissions to Read a Specific Post
I am trying to deal with a workflow that creates multiple editors, and has a strict who can edit what when workflow. Currently I have it switch the post_author when we need an editor to take over, ...
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Copying uploaded images not working in wordpress
I am trying to copy an image uploaded using Contact Form 7 to the uploads directory but this only produces an empty jpeg file with 0644 permissions even though the dev directory and the uploads ...
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Remove admin bar for subscribers
I have a membership site. I need to disable the admin bar for the subscribers.
I have used this code below:
add_action('after_setup_theme', 'remove_admin_bar');
function remove_admin_bar() {
if (!...
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WordPress permissions error with admin account
I have been assigned to manage a website that uses WordPress and hence have an admin account. It is hosted on a Linux machine. WordPress is not installed in the /srv/http directory. Instead, it is ...
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WP Plugin permissions - create new files
Scenario
I'm trying to write to create a file in my plugin directory but I'm getting permission issues on plugin activation.
I'm also trying to create/modify a file in the wordpress root directory (...
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Why is the 'Gutenberg' Plugin generating an 'Inconsistent File Permissions' error when other Plugins, with the same permissions, do not?
Earlier, I logged into a WordPress Dashboard I manage and saw that WordPress' 'Gutenberg' Plugin required updating along with a couple of other Plugins.
All Plugins updated fine, with the exception ...
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Why is my WordPress Plugin page requesting my FTP Login Credentials?
I run my own VPS, which hosts multiple WordPress websites. When it comes to adding/removing Plugins via the WordPress Dashboard, I have never had a problem.
For one of my domains, I wanted to ...
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How to force authors to 'submit for review'?
So currently when authors add a post they can publish it straight away.
How can i change it so that all their posts need to be reviewed first?
I've seen a few codes that can solve that but when it ...
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Safari not “giving Permission to Open This Page” when trying to load pdf from wordpress site [closed]
I have a wordpress site, which I just moved from one domain to another, which caused some issues, which are mostly if not all fixed.
I cannot tell you if the problem has existed before, since the ...
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Admin cannot publish
When I logged in on my site this morning I noticed that my user can’t publish anything. I am administrator and the only user on the site.
On Posts and Pages instead of “Publish” I have the “Submit ...
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Linux Permissions and Ownership for WordPress
I installed WordPress via ftp upload to our server using my ftp user account. This account is different than the user that runs http/Apache.
I am now trying to install themes and plugins and I am ...
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WordPress debug.log is not updating
In my wp-config.php file:
define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', true);
@ini_set('display_errors',1);
In my php.ini file, track errors is = Off
/wp-...
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Safe to set permissions to 757 temporarily to update via wp-cli?
LEMP stack on digitalocean VPS.
I haven't been able to get "wp core update" to work unless public (or "Other") has execute permission, i.e. 757 or 777.
Otherwise, it throws "Error: Could not create ...
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Wordpress not generating .htaccess but tells me that (Permalink structure updated.)
I hope someone can help me.
I am configuring my new Centos 7 server with directadmin and ran into the following problem(s);
my .htaccess file won't generate after saving permalinks, but says (...
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Folder/File Permissions set to apache:apache, user can not longer has RWX permission in SFTP
i am sure this has been talked about a lot and i have googled this extensively find only half solutions to my problem.
I am currently running apache(2) on Ubuntu 18.xx, with a number of different ...
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Why do some of my directories need to be writeable that shouldn't be?
Otherwise, the site turns blank.
wp-content needs web user writable, wp-admin/includes also. i don't like it, from what I understand, I should be able to have all of this as read-only for the web ...
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Admin Access for specific page(s)
I'm working on a membership site in WordPress and I want a specific group of my users to be able to have access to a page I create, but then also have admin access to this specific page and be able to ...
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Blank image thumbnails in media library
I copied one website to other domain. i am using avada theme
in my new domain all images show as blank thumbnails in admin but in website all images are show
i checked permission of all folder and ...
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WP_Query: Query posts only if their access is restricted to logged user's role
So this is what I'm trying to do. I have some posts that are visible only to users with a certain role. I want to display them in a user's profile section, so they're immediately visible after they ...
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New folder and file permissions are not correct
I have read through a bunch of sites, but I could only find the right permission to set to existing files and folders, but I could not find anything related to the new files and folders to be created.
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Wordpress roles - Protect administrator role
We want to provide owners of their site, administrator role, but we don't want them to delete user 1. We also don't want a cheap solution which stops their admin account from being able to delete ...
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Why aren't my posts being saved or published?
I have migrated my site from a shared hosting provider to my own dedicated server and and am experiencing issues with writing posts.
When I create a new post and press either save or publish, the ...
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Can I create users that have access to *some* other users posts instead of all other users posts?
I’ve been using basic user rights functionality on a multi-user WP site for a while and its worked out great, having most user accounts just have access to their own posts but a few “editors” having ...
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How do I customize the dashboard?
I've been using Drupal for almost two years now so I know nothing about Wordpress.
I have configured everything on my website to work how it should and I love it. I created a new user using the sign-...
