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How to Control Permissions for WP Job Manager

Written on May 3, 2021. Leave a Comment

WP Job Manager is a popular plugin with over 100,000 active installs and a wide range of available add-ons. This plugin can add job boards to your WordPress site so people can look for work and post their resumes. WP Job Manager is built by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. There's a free version on WordPress.org and the add-ons are at WPJobManager.com.

One PublishPress customer wanted to create a user who could manage the jobs and resumes inside the WP Job Manager. However, they didn't want to give this user access to any other area of the site.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a “Job Manager” role on your site. We'll also explore the capabilities available in the WP Job Manager plugin.

Content Display is the Best Block to Showcase Your WordPress Content

Written on April 29, 2021. Leave a Comment

The PublishPress Blocks plugin just got a big upgrade!

The plugin now features the best content block in WordPress.

If you think that's hyperbole, you should give it a try. PublishPress Blocks is free on WordPress.org.

The block I'm talking about is called “Content Display“. This block allows you to show posts, pages and other content types in many beautiful layouts.

Control User Access to Gravity Forms and WooCommerce

Written on April 16, 2021. Leave a Comment

A PublishPress user has both Gravity Forms and WooCommerce on their site. They asked this is interesting question:

Can I use the Capabilities plugin to give the “Shop Manager” role user access to Gravity Forms entries?

The answer is “yes”, and we'll show you how to do it in this guide. We're going to be controlling access to this “Entries” menu link:

The Table Block and the Advanced Table Block

Written on April 15, 2021. Leave a Comment

One of the things I love about WordPress is that the project has a clearly-stated philosophy. One of the principles is to design for 80% of users and leave plugins to fill in the more advanced features.

This is happening with the Gutenberg block editor. Many developers are adding extra features on top of the default blocks.

Inside the PublishPress Blocks plugin, the Advanced Table block is based on the default Table block in Gutenberg.

The Gutenberg team have done the hard work. We're standing on their shoulders.

If you want to show data inside tables in WordPress, both of these blocks are a great choice.

The Advanced Table Block has functionality that the extra 20% of WordPress users may find helpful. If you are a WordPress power user, you'll want to check out these features, including colors, border settings, cell merging, padding, and text alignment.

How to Control Permissions for the Contact Form 7 Plugin

Written on April 14, 2021. 1 Comment

Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular plugins in the WordPress world. However, it is a fairly basic plugin that lacks some key features such as access control.

In this guide, I'll show you how to control access to Contact Form 7 features. We'll use the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. If you want to take this tutorial a step further, check out how to control access to Contact Form 7 admin menus.

How to Create a Product Editor for WooCommerce

Written on April 9, 2021. Leave a Comment

This week, a PublishPress customer asked us about an interesting configuration for their WordPress site.

The customer wanted to create a “Product Editor” role. Any users in this role would be responsible for editing all the WooCommerce products. We've explained this “Product Editor” role in another guide.

However, the customer had an extra request. They import all their products into the “Uncategorized” category where the “Product Editor” can go to work. Once they have finished editing, they change the category to “Approved”. At this point, their work is over and they can no longer see the product.

Control Permissions for the Flamingo Plugin (with Contact Form 7)

Written on April 8, 2021. Leave a Comment

Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular WordPress plugins ever, with over 5 million installs.

Contact Form 7 is so popular that even it's add-ons can have 100,000's of users. Click here for our guide to Contact Form 7 permissions and there's also a guide to controlling access to Contact Form 7 admin menus.

Flamingo is a plugin which stores messages submitted through Contact Form 7. Flamingo was written by Takayuki Miyoshi, who also developed Contact Form 7.

How to Vertically Align WordPress Tables in Gutenberg

Written on April 6, 2021. Leave a Comment

The Gutenberg editor is good, and with the PublishPress Blocks plugin, it’s great!

PublishPress Blocks builds on top of the basic Gutenberg editor and add all sorts of useful extra features. For example, with PublishPress Blocks you have more options for the table block.

The Advanced Table block is based on the default Table block in Gutenberg. This improved version of the block has tons of extra table features including advanced styling such as margin, padding, alignment, colors and more. Click here to see a demo and click here to see the default Table block vs the Advanced Table block.

How to Hide WordPress Meta Boxes in the Post Editor

Written on April 2, 2021. Leave a Comment

A WordPress website always starts by looking very clean. But after you choose a theme and install a lot of plugin, the user interface quickly becomes very crowded.

In other guides, we've shown you how to hide WordPress admin menus, hide the admin toolbar, and hide dashboard widgets. In this tutorial, we'll explain how to hide the “meta boxes” that appear below your WordPress posts and in the sidebar, when you're editing a post.

In the image below, you can see some typical meta boxes from Yoast SEO, the PublishPress plugin, TaxoPress, and others.

How to Prevent WordPress Users from Creating New Tags

Written on April 2, 2021. Leave a Comment

We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week:

I am trying to allow a some user role to choose an existing Tag, but not allow them to create new Tags. This was simple enough to do with Categories, but I cannot figure it out for Tags.

This was a great question that requires some explanation. We recommend the TaxoPress plugin for managing your tags, but PublishPress plugins can handle these more complex permissions.

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