I’m using the plugin Custom CSS JS which registers it’s own post type but the capability is assigned to “post”. I want to change it to “manage_options”. Is there a correct way without altering the plugin to do that? Calling a hook, a function or whatever? public function register_post_type() { $labels = array ( ‘name’ … Read more
I want to create dynamic capabilities using WP_Role::add_cap(), something like $author_role = get_role(‘author’); foreach ($sections as $section) { $author_role->add_cap( “edit_{$section}_pages”, /* grant= */ false ); } and then let administrators grant certain of those capabilities to certain authors only (e.g., Jane can edit_school_pages) in wp-admin (not programmatically, via WP_User::add_cap()). I assume a plugin can help … Read more
I have the following 3 different Roles: Admin, Editor, and SEO. I have installed WordPress SEO by Yoast, and I want to get this: I don’t want the editors to see the SEO options, because they only write posts and don’t know about SEO. There is a person with the SEO role, who will do … Read more
I am running a fresh install of WordPress 3.3.2 and the only plugin enabled is one I’m developing, but I can’t seem to get past a permissions issue in add_menu_page. With the exception of using anonymous functions instead of named functions, I’m following the documentation almost exactly. My plugin source: <?php /* Plugin Name: Some … Read more
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 ‘Projects’). How I intend for it to work is that there are multiple users who either have read-only access or read/write access … Read more
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. add_cap() asks for a $role to apply the capability to in the first parameter of the function. Both add_role() and add_cap() need … Read more
What is the advantage of using capabilities instead of usermeta? For example a cap access_feature_x vs meta access_feature_x. I can use current_user_can() vs get_user_meta() on various checks. So, what improvement does capabilities provides? Edit The question seem too broad for a specific answer. So, I will provide an example context. Please keep your original answers … Read more
(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 agents of the company. With the website owner user role I was just looking for a way to restrict … Read more
I’m using a custom post type to let contributors have a personal page on the site. Any time a user registers on my site a script creates a custom type post that has the registering user as the author. To moderate users’ entries this post is published by an editor. I would like users (contributors) … Read more
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, and nothing above that. Is there a way to do this? 2 s 2 This first step to making this … Read more