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Tagged with users user-access
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How to programatically change username (user_login)?
As in the title, how to programatically change user's login?
I wanted to use wp_insert_user function, but it appears that when updating current user, it doesn't change their username. Should I use $...
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How to restrict access to uploaded files?
I have a restricted area on a website that can only be accessed by logged in users. For that I created a page template with a 'current_user_can()' condition.
My problem is that the documents attached ...
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Allowing users to edit only their page and nobody else's
We currently have about 50 pages, each of which I want a user (eg, bob, rob, smith) to be able to edit only 1 page. For example, bob & smith each have their own page. I do not want bob to be ...
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Can an admin check passwords of registered users?
I have a site where I open accounts for users and hand over login credentials to them.
Now, Let's say that a user forgot his password, and wants to reset it. He clicks "Lost your password?" link on ...
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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 ...
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Hide Admin Menu for Specific User ID who has administrator Role
I am trying to hide almost every single admin menu from wordpress dashboard for a specific user id who has administrator role. I want to give that user only option to edit a certain custom post type ...
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Allowing an email as the username?
Is it possible to allow people to utilize their email as their username?
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How to manually activate user in dashboard only by admin
I'm looking for a function that allows admins (only) to activate new users. When a user registers he have to be approved by the admin before he gets access to log in.
Does anyone know how I can do ...
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Post list based on the user that is logged in
I've been all over this site and google, and the WP codex looking for an answer to this one. I know it's out there, and I know it's easy. Maybe has something to do with user_nicename, but I just can't ...
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How do you add a custom option to user data?
I would like to add avatars to my users. I have a limited group on a site I'm working. Uploading isn't really a problem we can just put the images on the server and use URL's to set our avatars(Only ...
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The 'user_has_cap' hook seems to take two page loads to trigger
This question relates to another question I asked recently (http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/29009/how-to-assign-specific-users-the-capability-to-edit-specific-pages-posts-cus/), the ...
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Basic auth WordPress REST API dilemma
Today I tested Basic Auth for the WordPress REST API and it worked perfectly. However, I heard this was a dangerous way of authentication. This is understandable, since people can look into JS files ...
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Add user capability and check against it
I just realized the following:
// Call the current user info
global $current_user;
// Add a capability
// and set the 2nd argument ($grant) to false
$current_user->add_cap( 'some_cap', false );
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Copy a user from one WordPress site to another
Is it possible to copy a user from one WordPress site to another?
I copied the record from the user table and all the related records from the usermeta table (12 records by default) but I think ...
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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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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 to customize wp_signon()
I am trying to get a customized sign on process.
The features that are absent in WordPress by default are the following:
Allow user to choose a password at the time of registration.
Allow user to ...
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Check if someone is editing a post (this content is currently locked)
I'd like to create a kind of auditing. How can I check if an user is modifying an article?
Is there a db query I can do to achieve this task?
I've found the following solution but I wonder if there ...
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How can I get multisite primary blog (url or path) for current user?
In a multisite setup, when users are visiting a blog/site that there are not a member, I would like to display a link to "HOME" that takes them to their "primary" blog.
I know how to determine if a ...
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Can you have multi-site WP and keep users separate?
I'm aware that multi-site exists but I've never used it.
Could I use it in a type of reseller mode, where I ran one install of WordPress but provided completely separate sites for separate users? ...
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Set default page for user account in admin
I have set up an ecommerce site using wordpress/woocommerce and am now adding the users who will be dealing with the orders to the site. The only part of the site that they need to have access to is ...
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Managing Users and Creating Groups [closed]
We're going to be transitioning from a small, outdated CMS that's no longer supported, to WordPress for our new CMS. Our old CMS allows us to restrict access on the back-end so that by default User A ...
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Add a wordpress blog to my website having users
I have a php/mysql based site with users segregated into different groups... i want to add blogging system to it so that each group has its own blog which can be authored by users who are designated ...
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Share user table from WP with Drupal
I'm developing a sister website to a well-established private site that is already built in Wordpress. I can't use Wordpress to create what I need and I am therefore using Drupal. The owners of the ...
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Log all users out of all locations after 24 hours
Good day, experts. Please I need the code that can help me log all logged in users on my WordPress website out of all locations after a particular time.
This is what I have so far:
add_action('...
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Hide everything on site for visitors except specific page IDs
I have a client who wants to close down access to the entire site, every post, category page, archive etc (while keeping the content), except for three specific pages (Start, about us, contact).
None ...
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Redirecting or displaying a message on first login
I've been trying to decipher a way to display a message to a user on first login and can't seem to get it to work. I'm not sure what I'm missing, or if there's something else I need to do. Any help ...
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show text If special user is logged
I want to check if special user id is logged in WordPress. i know we have a function name is_user_logged_in() but we can't change the id of user logged in, in this function.
I need a function like ...
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Upgrade Nightmare - No Posts, Permissions Issues and Can't Create a new post
Symptoms:
Can't view ANY previous Posts, but the correct totals are listed by class - published, draft....
When creating a new post - no save or publish button
Unable to administer ANY plug-ins - ...
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How do I count the number of pages a user has seen on my site, and force them to log in after a certain amount
I'm looking to write a little function that counts how many pages the user has clicked through in this section. When it gets to a certain amount, I want to prompt them to log in and prevent them from ...
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How to disable a specific page for a specific user
For say, I have this page
https://www.website.com/courses/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpProQuiz&action=delete&id=1
I want to disable this page for the username remo.
How can I do this?
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remove/hide pages from users backend
I'm using this code in functions.php to hide/remove some pages from custom users backend and works well, but how can I reach to hide the subpages as well?
add_filter( 'parse_query' , '...
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Restrict users post for himself
I am trying to build a system that lists users posts only (that I have managed to code) but also restricts users from seeing eachothers posts.
If user A has his post under: domain.com/category/postA ...
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How to create user groups and allow custom posts and plugin modify/access to specific group?
I am looking for plugin or is there any method/function to create user groups and give an access them to modify/access.
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How to display only logged in user's post comments in comments area
I am making a custom Wordpress site where School students logged in and add their posts.
I am giving them rights to use wp-admin panel with little customization and modification.
QUESTION: "How can ...
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Control Category of each user can post
i need to know if has some plugin to control category of each user can post.
Exemple:
USER A - Only can post on the category A
USER B - Only can post on the category B
Thanks for TIPS!!!
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Allow user access to Dashboard only!
Update: This snippet below removes the menu also for my admin account:
function remove_menu_items() {
global $menu;
global $user_ID;
if( $user_ID ) :
/* Dashboard only acccess ...
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Restrict access of admin uploads to certain logged-in users?
This is a very open-ended, speculative question with lots of possible angles: has anyone worked with ways to restrict the access of certain uploads to a logged in user?
I.e., how can the site admin ...
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wordpress user roles are not working
I have never assigned or used a role before on this site, I have just created a new user role with plugin "user role editor" and also assign an editor Role to other account, whenever I log ...
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Displaying different in-page content to cliente/admin
i'm a young informatic engineer student who is developing his first wordpress website. It is a booking website when a client can see the available hours in certain local and book it, and the local can ...
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Good way to block users within a multisite setup without deleting them?
This is probably a common problem with multiple possibilities to solve. However I am asking for an easy solution as I guess I am not the first one to have this problem.
Assume we have a huge company ...
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Problem with automatic role change through cron job
I have a function called by a daily cron job that automatically changes the role of users after a period of time. The 1st role update should happen 120 days after registration, and a 2nd role update ...
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Subsite access without being a member of the subsite in wp multisite network
How can a user access a subsite without being the member of that subsite in a wp multisite network?
What I understand is that a user can not access a private post in a subsite if he is not the ...
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Reset Password policy
Looking for to add reset password policy.
Password specifications :
12 characters in length, 1 uppercase letter, 1 lowercase letter, 1 number, and 1 special character.
I find a hooks for manage ...
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How can I allow an User to publish only 5 posts per month?
I want to give my users the ability to publish posts. User Role 1: Can Publish 5 Posts per Month
User Role 2: Can publish 10 Posts per Month
And User Role 3: Can Publish 15 Posts per month
It should ...
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Create custom post with custom user rules
I am create a custom user post type testimonial and want to give permission to user to edit and delete there post but its show some error.
1. I created user rule.
function ...
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Where are $current_user->allcaps set?
I recently found a problem with WP in which even the admin has no permission to get to anything on /wp-admin/. Oddly enough, when I compared the $current_user->allcaps to those on a normal site, I ...
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Users can only view their content from the front end
There was a great answer to how users can manage their posts only from the back-end. What I am wondering, is how to allow users to only see their posts, pages, etc, which have their user id attached ...
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Custom user profile, registration, login page with theme
WordPress user profile page uses the administration interface, and its user registration / login page is not part of the theme. I would like to
change it into the custom theme of my site
customize ...
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