In this guide, I’m going to show you to hide Gutenberg blocks that you don’t want some WordPress users to access. As more plugin developers support Gutenberg, you may end up with a very long list of blocks. Or you may simply not want to give some users access to some functionality.
We had a question from a PublishPress user asked us about an interesting configuration for their WordPress eCommerce site. This user wanted to create a WooCommerce Product Editor role. Any users in this role will be responsible for editing all the WooCommerce products, but will not have access to other areas of the site.
Ben May runs The Code Company, one of the most successful WordPress agencies in Australia. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, we discuss Ben’s journey in the Australian publishing industry, the evolution of WordPress, and the importance of community engagement. Ben has tons of experience with scaling WordPress sites, particularly with comment and community…
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…
By default, all the files and images you upload to WordPress are publicly available. This is great news for most sites. The goal of most sites is to create popular content that is viewed by as many readers as possible. But this public access is a problem if you run a membership site and DO…
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, we talk with Andrew Wilder from NerdPress. Andrew’s team specializes in WordPress support and maintenance for independent publishers, particularly in the food and travel blogging niches. Because he works with very high-traffic websites, Andrew and his team do things differently. For example, their plugin updates are always done…
By default, WordPress only allows Administrators to create users. If you want to allow other roles to create users then you need to give them at least the promote_users, list_users, edit_users and create_users permissions. However, if you give them those permissions, they can create and edit users in any role. So you could have Editors…
Jen Kramer has taught web design for decades. Her career spans Harvard, community colleges, LinkedIn, Frontend Masters and now Annie Cannons, a nonprofit boot camp for human trafficking survivors. In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Jen talks about her career and how web design teaching has changes over the years. Jen believes that good…
PublishPress Future is the plugin for scheduling changes to your content. Version 4.5 is now available. This is a major new release and it really expands what is possible with the plugin. There is a new “Update post” action available. This opens a world of possibilities for scheduling updates to your content. With the “Update…
Several of our PublishPress plugins allow you to control what users can do on your WordPress site. These plugins allow you to change user permissions via the WordPress admin area. However, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes. PublishPress customers often have questions from users about WordPress permissions and where they are stored in…