Does anyone know how to assign multiple Users as authors of single individual posts (even single custom post types)? I want more than just displaying as tags the list of authors. I am looking at the plugin Groups and do not know if you can set the Author of a post to be a group. … Read more
I’ve updated to wordpress 4.7.x. I don’t know why, but after doing so, I no longer have the ability to upload plugins (it keeps asking for FTP access. We’ve never used FTP always SFTP), and I can no longer update existing plugins. I get this error: Update Failed: Could not create directory. wp-config.php indeed was … Read more
I’ve created a new user role called “writer” and assigned him the following capabilities. read, edit_post , upload_files, edit_posts, edit_published_posts, publish_posts, level_0, level_1, level_2` The user can upload images but cannot edit the media details like title, caption etc. The text boxes are read only. Am I missing a permission in the user role? Edit: … Read more
All is in the title. Does someone know a way to do that ? Thanks ! 1 Answer 1 Though may not be intuitive, one needs the capability edit_others_posts to make posts sticky. If you don’t want a user to have that ability just remove the edit_others_posts capability from the user.
I can successfully upload/remove media, add/remove plugins and edit theme files within admin CP. The one thing I can not do in admin CP is a normal one click update from WordPress 3.7.1 to 3.8. Ideas? The error message when I try to run updates: Downloading update from https://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.8-new-bundled.zip… Unpacking the update… The update cannot … Read more
For security reasons I need to block access to scripts that will not be executed on a fresh WordPress installation. Example: /index.php –> needs to be executable /wp-includes/cache.php –> should not be executed (it’s included in other files) Anyone has information on which files are included and which actually need to be executable? I want … Read more
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 the woocommerce orders page in the admin side. Is there a way I can set this … Read more
Is it possible when listing a directory to view numerical unix permissions such as 644 rather than the symbolic output -rw-rw-r– Thanks. 9 Answers 9
In a plugin, i create a dedicated user role along with some capabilities. These capabilities also need to be assigned to other roles, such as editor and admin. As the addition of roles and capabilities involves database writes, these operations are commonly considered “expensive” and recommended to be performed only in the plugin activation hook. … Read more
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 access to everyone’s posts. This was assisted by the wp-front plugin that allows you to easily define user roles. … Read more