As the title says, I’d like to restrict back-end access to certain pages for certain users. While doing a site with 45-50 pages, I realised it would be a much better user experience if the Page menu only listed those pages which the user should be able to change/update. I’ve tried the plugins below to … Read more
I have a multisite installation running WP 3.5. My main site and a few other blogs on the network work fine. However, if I register a new user and site, that user gets the “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” error any time they try to visit the admin panel of … Read more
I have a fresh WordPress installation that works fine. I decide to make it work under HTTPS so I go in the General config and change the “WordPress Address” and the “Site Adress” from http://my.website.com/blog/ to https://my.website.com/blog/. First, this create a redirection loop so I have to add the following lines to my wp_config.php: /** … Read more
I have a site where I open accounts for users and hand over login credentials to them. Now, Let’s say that a user forgot his password, and wants to reset it. He clicks “Lost your password?” link on the login page and a new password is then automatically sent to his mail box. Being the … Read more
We currently have about 50 pages, each of which I want a user (eg, bob, rob, smith) to be able to edit only 1 page. For example, bob & smith each have their own page. I do not want bob to be able to edit smith’s page. I want bob to ONLY be able to … Read more
In desperation I am asking for help in this forum too – if someone (ANYONE!) could take a look a this post and see if they could help I’d be eternally grateful http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_update_user-not-updating?replies=11 Basically – I am updating a user’s role and capabilities via script but the changes only come in to effect (ie the … Read more
I have a restricted area on a website that can only be accessed by logged in users. For that I created a page template with a ‘current_user_can()’ condition. My problem is that the documents attached to the restricted pages are still accessible to anyone if you put the complete path into the browsers address bar. … Read more
In the Comments page (/wp-admin/edit-comments.php), every logged in user can see all the site comments. I’d like the users to see only his/her own comments and the comments that are left to his/her posts. How can I filter this? 1 1 Either of these 3 will help you: //Before getting the comments, on the WP_Comment_Query … Read more
I have a very specific use case where the site built for a lawyer and each of his clients can login to their own ‘specific page/portal’ (custom post type) without the ability to access wp-admin etc. (I created all the login/register/profile-editing pages in the front end). In this page/portal the lawyer will leave messages and … Read more
In my application, i have one form. Now if user is in front end i want to display the title but if he is in back end i do not want to display it. I do not want to check it based on user role. 2 Use is_admin(). It checks if you’re viewing an Admin … Read more
