PublishPress Capabilities 2.51: Admin Menu Improvements
PublishPress Capabilities 2.51.0 adds better Admin Menu controls, accessibility upgrades, performance fixes, and important security hardening for teams.
PublishPress Capabilities
These posts feature news and tutorials for the PublishPress Capabilities plugin which allows you to control permissions for your WordPress posts, pages, media and custom post types.
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PublishPress Capabilities v2.50.1: Role Dropdown and Admin Styles Fixes
PublishPress Capabilities 2.50.1 fixes role dropdown consistency, restores easy default admin styles, and prevents accidental menu access changes for roles.
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PublishPress Capabilities 2.50: Disable Roles and Faster Capability Controls
PublishPress Capabilities 2.50.0 adds role disabling, global capability controls, safer imports, single role exports, and multisite improvements for WordPress.
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Keep WordPress Safe When Using Application Passwords and AI Tools
Have you started using AI tools to update or manage your WordPress site? I’ve spoken to lots of PublishPress customers who are using AI tools to create posts, generate images, audit existing content, and much more. Most AI tools use Application Passwords, and they’re super easy to set up. But here’s the catch: if you’re…
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PublishPress Capabilities 2.45: Control Access for AI Tools Using Application Passwords
PublishPress Capabilities 2.45.0 adds a setting to deny capabilities for Application Passwords, plus multisite sync and admin UI fixes for safer API access.
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What is the Edit Posts Permission in WordPress?
When organizations with larger teams start using WordPress, permissions quickly become one of the trickiest things to get right. Who can write posts? Who can upload images? Who can see the admin at all? Many of these questions come back to a single capability: edit_posts. Despite its narrow-sounding name, this permission controls access to a…
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What are User Role Levels in WordPress?
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…
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How to Customize Permissions for One WordPress User
This week, a PublishPress user asked us if it is possible to customize the permissions for a single WordPress user. Their request was like this: This request makes a ton of sense. Normally in WordPress you’d need to make a whole new user role for this. You’d create a role called “John” and put him…
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User Switching in WordPress and Testing User Accounts
If you run a WordPress website with many users, you probably have to answer account questions or solve website bugs for your users. Here at PublishPress, we rely heavily on the User Testing feature in the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. This allows us to browse our site and see exactly what the user sees. User Testing…
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How to Increase the Font Size in the WordPress Admin Area
Not everyone needs the same font size in the WordPress admin area. By default, almost all the text in WordPress is shown with a 13 pixel font. However, that font size may be too small for some users. Some people want larger text because they have aging eyes or vision conditions. Some people find that…