I’ve been having a difficult time adding custom post type capabilities to roles (Adding capabilities to default roles) and I suspect that my muddling around may have caused some problems. I also have installed and de-installed various plugins some of which added capabilities. As a result My WP Role object is a bit of a … Read more
I have several unpublished posts in my WordPress website and I am trying to make it accessible for normal users (who are not logged in) using the normal post slugs (site.com/post-here). I understand it may not be the best practice but for my special purpose, this needs to be done. I have tried adding the … Read more
(Moderator’s note: Original title was “Remove Admin from User Menu”) I have created a client administrator role which is essentially an Editor with ability to add/remove users. The article “Editor can create any new user except administrator” was excellent in helping keep my new client admin role from editing or creating a True admin user. … Read more
How can I get a list of all users that are in WordPress by their role or capabilities? For example: Display all subscribers list in WordPress. Display all authors list in WordPress. Display all editors list in WordPress. 4 There may be some different way to do that, but most proper way to do that … Read more
I want to be able to select a subscriber an author of a post in the admin so it displays their name as having written the post, but I do not want to give them any additional privileges (if they login the only thing they can access is their profile). Is there a simple way … Read more
I am managing a WordPress network and would like to add the unfiltered_html user capability to the already predefined user role of Admin. In a standard installation of WordPress the Admin account would already have this capability but in an MU installation only Super Admins are afforded this capability. WordPress Roles and Capabilities. How can … Read more
What I’m looking to do is completely hide the UI for a custom post type from specific user roles…Ive previously found many resources on how to disable access to using those CPTs but nothing that really allows you to completely hide the CPT UI all together based on what user is logged into the dashboard. … Read more
I wish to create a custom capability for accessing the interface of my plugin. Should the plugin manage adding this capability to all the administrator accounts on activation? If so: Does WordPress manage adding the capability to all administrators of sub blogs and super administrators in multisite installations, or does that function need to be … Read more
How to create new role with same capabilities of existing role. Eg: I would like to create a new role with same capabilities of administrator or editor and so on.. 4 Try this… This should work. <?php add_action(‘init’, ‘cloneRole’); function cloneRole() { global $wp_roles; if ( ! isset( $wp_roles ) ) $wp_roles = new WP_Roles(); … Read more
Is there anyway to rename a user role name via hook, instead of using plugin? Edit For example, administrator » owner 6 function change_role_name() { global $wp_roles; if ( ! isset( $wp_roles ) ) $wp_roles = new WP_Roles(); //You can list all currently available roles like this… //$roles = $wp_roles->get_names(); //print_r($roles); //You can replace “administrator” … Read more
