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Does the “promote_users” capability allow someone to create a new admin account?

I’ve created a “Second Administrator” role to avoid the worst case scenario happening on my WordPress site when I have casual web development ...

May 13, 2022
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\WP_User Object | What’s the Difference Between {caps} and {allcaps}?

Upon dumping the \WP_User object, I’ve noticed that there are two properties, which are directly related to capabilities for a particular user. $user_object->caps ...

May 13, 2022
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Menu capability in WordPress

Is it possible to specify two usergroups (e.g. admins and editors) into the admin menu capability field ? I tried the following but ...

May 12, 2022
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Adding capabilities to super admins

I’m developing a plugin that uses custom capabilities. Some of those capabilities need to be added to all users who are super admins. ...

May 12, 2022
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How to update role capabilities

I have manually created a role called “event-planner”. I’ve assigned some capabilities to it and it works as expected. However, if I later ...

May 11, 2022
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Notice: map_meta_cap was called incorrectly

I created an external script to import json data into a custom post type that uses wp-load.php. Everything works fine but after every ...

May 10, 2022
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Do not allow users to create new posts and pages

I’m defining a new user role called Proofreader and as the name says, users of this group should be able to read and ...

May 10, 2022
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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 answer to which got me most of the way there to what ...

May 10, 2022
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Allow authors to edit only certain users

I am trying to give my “authors” (who I have renamed “captains”) the ability to access the user profile of their team members ...

May 10, 2022
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WordPress Capabilities: edit_user vs edit_users

The official documentation only mentions edit_users, but in the source I found many places are using edit_user, what is the difference? Are there ...

May 10, 2022
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