We had an interesting question from one of our users who is using the LearnDash plugin for the WordPress Learning Management system. They wanted to lock down many of the LearnDash features and create a user role role that can only access the “Lessons” and “Topics” submenus in LearnDash. This is possible thanks to the…
In a previous blog post, we talked about hiding the Permissions metabox for a specific user role. Now we will talk about the opposite: showing the PublishPress Permissions metabox for a specific user role. In this case, we will take an example of the Editor role. By default, the Editor role only gets access to…
One PublishPress user asked how to create a custom user role that only has access to the “Coupons” area in the WooCommerce Analytics area. They did not want the user to have access to the WooCommerce report menu. This user was a marketing person and only needed to check on the success of their marketing campaigns…
One of our customers is using WooCommerce and had a question about configuring the Shop Manager role. They wanted to modify this role so that users in the Shop Manager role had limited ability to modify the orders. First, we suggested this tutorial to make that happen: “Allow users to view and not edit WooCommerce…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress customer this week. They wanted to hide the “Edit” link on published WordPress posts. This customer wanted to make sure his users clicked the “New Revision” link instead of editing the post directly. This “New Revisions” link is coming from the PublishPress Revisions plugin, which gives you…
When you install Elementor, there will be a “Templates” menu on your WordPress admin menu. However, it can look distracting for some roles if the user doesn’t need access to this “Templates” menu. If you don’t want the “Templates” menu link to appear for a certain user role, you can hide this link for specific…
PublishPress Revisions is the plugin that allows you to manage content changes in WordPress. The plugin provides a special role called “Revisor” that can submit and approve changes, but not create new content. One PublishPress customer noticed that users in the “Revisor” role can approve their own changes. In this article, I’ll explain how to…
The PublishPress Permissions plugin allows you to customize who can read and edit individual items in WordPress. You can control user access using a metabox. This metabox can control access to Posts, Pages, Categories, Media and more. Click here for more details on this feature. We had a question this week from a user who…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user. They wanted to create a WordPress user role where all users in this role could only see specific media files. They did not want the users in this role to be able to see other media files. This request is possible thanks to the PublishPress Permissions…
One PublishPress customer asked how us to allow users in WordPress role to only edit specific post types. For example, you create a custom role called “Movie Director” and post type called “Movie”. The goal is to allow this role to only access this post type.