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…
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…
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…
The Gutenberg editor is good, and with the PublishPress Blocks plugin, itās 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…
By default, WooCommerce products don’t show the default “Authors” feature in WordPress. The WooCommerce developers made this choice for a good reason. Posts, Pages and other content normally need an “author”. However, eCommerce products might have a “Vendor” or “Manufacturer”, but not often an “author”.
Why does it always happen on a Friday afternoon? One recent Friday afternoon, we had a panic here at PublishPress. We made a minor change to one of the options in Easy Digital Downloads – that’s the eCommerce plugin we use on this site. Suddenly, all the subscription plans were broken. Whenever anyone tried to…
This week, one PublishPress customer was in a situation where they needed to create Tags based on the Authors of a post. The goal was that when someone writes a post, their name was automatically added as a Tag. Once this was done, the customer could use the Tags to trigger other functionality. For example,…
A large number of PublishPress users have sites with custom post types. Sometimes this is done using custom code. Sometimes it’s done with a theme. Sometimes it’s done with a plugin. However, although these methods can provide many features, they rarely deal with permissions. This can be important … these custom post types often hold…
PublishPress Capabilities is the pluginĀ that gives you control over all the permissions on your WordPress site. In the last few days, there have been two big milestones for the plugin: Capabilities now has over 100,000 active installs of the Free version, according to WordPress.org. We released Capabilities 2.0 with lots of new features for Free…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week: “Is there any way to automatically add a specific tag if the user is in a certain role?“ For example, Authors will always get “Tag A” added and Editors will always get “Tag B” added. Yes, this is possible with a little code. Once…