The “upload_files” capability is one of the most important in WordPress. If users don’t have the “upload_files” capability, they completely lose access to the Media Library. They can’t upload files or even browse media on your site. If users do not have the “upload_files” capability, this image below shows what they will see when they use…
Here’s an interesting question from a PublishPress user: “I want to allow the Author role to edit published posts (theirs or others) and make those changes live without approval. But I don’t want those users to create new posts themselves.“ Yes, this is possible using the PublishPress Capabilities plugin.
We recently wrote about the edit_posts permission in WordPress. This permission is incredibly powerful. The edit_posts permission controls access to at least six important writing features in WordPress:
The Gutenberg editor provokes a lot of debate in the WordPress world. Some people love Gutenberg – we’re in that camp and built the PublishPress Blocks plugin. Some people really don’t like Gutenberg and prefer to stick with the editor they’ve used for years. However, most WordPress users have more mixed feelings and prefer to…
PublishPress Future is one of the most popular and useful plugins we develop. The free version of the plugin has over 100,000 users. The plugin enables you to make automatic changes to posts on a date you choose. Here are some examples: The plugin was called “Post Expirator” and we adopted it almost two years ago….
In this tutorial, I’m going to introduce you to the unfiltered_html permission. This permission is a security feature in WordPress that prevents users from using tags such as iframe and embed, plus also more advanced code such as Javascript. This unfiltered_html permission could be very dangerous in the wrong hands, so please don’t give this…
OAuth is short for “Open Authorization” and it is an open standard for user management. Anyone can use the OAuth protocols and frameworks. You can find OAuth services available via small WordPress plugins and also large multinational companies. For example, when you sign up for an app it may offer the chance to login using…
In 2022 there was an interesting debate in the WordPress community about multisite. People asked if it is still relevant and if the technology should be deprecated entirely. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been building multisite support for RoleUp. So I’ve been trying to better understand the use of multisite in the real world….
“Private” is one of eight post statuses available in WordPress. These statuses control whether WordPress posts are visible to the entire world, waiting for moderation, or sent to the trash to await deletion. When you write in WordPress, you will most commonly see the Draft, Pending Review and Publish statuses. The Private status is used…
Welcome to the fourth annual review from PublishPress. You can read our previous reviews for 2019, 2020, and 2021. We write these annual reviews for at least three reasons: Here’s our recap of key events for PublishPress in 2022.