We have a PublishPress customer who also uses the Gravity Forms plugin. They asked us if it was possible to create a user who can do nothing in WordPress, except for edit form entries in Gravity Forms. Yes, this is possible, and this tutorial will show you how.
The Theme Editor in WordPress allows you make direct changes to your site’s theme files. This is not always a good idea because changes made via the Theme Editor can easily take your site offline. There is no “undo” or “rollback” button if you make a mistake. In fact, you will see this message when…
A few PublishPress users have written to us and asked if it’s possible to control who can access Elementor templates. By default, only users in the “Administrator” role have the ability to create and edit new templates. In this guide, I’ll show you how to allow other users to manage templates. For more control over…
“Block Access” is one of the most popular features in the PublishPress Blocks plugin. This feature allows you to control which blocks are available to different user roles. For example, if you want to prevent some user roles from adding “Table” blocks, you can block them from doing that with this feature. In version 2.10…
Here at PublishPress, we’re able to support almost any other WordPress plugin. However, there is one popular plugin called bbPress that doesn’t always work smoothly with our code, or other user management plugins. bbPress has over 300,000 users and is the commonly used discussion board in WordPress. I’m going to give you a guide on…
Over the last couple of years, more and more WordPress users have adopted the Gutenberg block editor. We use it for all the PublishPress sites, and an increasing number of support tickets are about Gutenberg. We had an interesting support ticket this week: a customer wanted to hide links in the menu that is attached…
PublishPress Capabilities 2.8 is available today. This release has some changes that will be immediately obvious when you update the plugin, plus also some useful features that won’t be immediately obvious. In this guide, I’ll introduce you to four new features in PublishPress Capabilities.
In the last few months, there have been big changes in how you create navigation menus in WordPress. Those changes are a result of the new “Full-Site Editing” feature. The PublishPress Capabilities plugin allows you to control access to both the old and the new navigation menus. For example, you can show a “Log in”…
Did you know that every user role in WordPress has a level from 0 to 10? These levels are rarely visible in the WordPress admin area, but they have an important impact on how your site works. The very lowest user role level is given to the Subscriber role and that has a value of…
WordPress allows you to build multisite networks. This is an awesome feature and enables you to manage many sites from a single WordPress installation. However, some WordPress features do work differently on a multisite network. If you normally manage a single site, you may have to adjust your thinking. One of these features is permissions….