I’m actually building custom type to WP and need to be able to restrict post access to some user role, ie. in admin area, collaborators can see posts but can’t edit them, just only open them as read-only. I used some plugins (Adminimize and User Role Editor) but, as far as I know, they don’t … Read more
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: add_action(‘init’, ‘external_roles_post_type_init’); function external_roles_post_type_init() { $labels = array( ‘name’ => _x(‘External Roles’, ‘post type general name’), ‘singular_name’ => _x(‘external role’, ‘post type singular name’), ‘add_new’ => _x(‘Add … Read more
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 this capability on one specific Edit Author Meta page. I give ‘editor’ permission to ‘list_users’ to access the Users admin table. I … Read more
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, ‘publicly_queryable’ => true, ‘show_ui’ => true, ‘query_var’ => true, ‘rewrite’ => true, ‘hierarchical’ => false, ‘menu_position’ => null, ‘supports’ => array(‘title’), ‘capabilities’ => array( ‘edit_post’ … Read more
How can I get ALL the capabilities of an existing user role (eg. Author) ? I’ll be using it to quickly duplicate an existing user role, then create a new role then assign or remove capabilities to a new custom role. 1 1 I suggest not to mess with the existing roles and capabilities in … Read more
For one of my custom post types I want a specific user to be able to edit existing posts created by admin but not be able to Add New posts. How can this be done? If I define the user role as not being able to Publish it still allows them to add a new … Read more
update_core update_plugins update_themes install_plugins install_themes delete_themes edit_plugins edit_themes Hi, I want to restrict those capabilities to user_id = Best Answero other super admins cant edit network files. (Btw if i am missing something, let me know). What is proper way of this? Tried http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/extended-super-admins/ but it adds ‘manage_esa_options’ cap to every blog so super_admins see … Read more
How do I 301 redirect private pages, rather than 404 them? If a post is private, WordPress filters it out in the SQL query, so there are no $post variables to work with. I’d like for this code to work, but doesn’t: add_action(‘wp’,’redirect_stuffs’, 0); function redirect_stuffs(){ global $post; if ( $post->post_status == “private” && !is_admin() … Read more
I have a few sites in a network. I don’t want the site administrators to manage things like network plugins, but I would like them to be able to edit profiles of all network users, not use those on their site. At the top of the /wp-admin/network/users.php file is this: if ( ! current_user_can( ‘manage_network_users’ … Read more
I am trying to limit a user role to only be able to edit existing pages, but not create new ones or do anything else like anything with posts. I have read this: Is there an existing capability to allow editing of only pre-existing pages? If not, a good way to implement this? and the … Read more