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.
This week, a PublishPress customer wanted to understand the relationship between authors and comments their WordPress posts. The customer wanted to know if authors could see manage comments on their own posts. This tutorial is a guide to understanding the control that users have over comments on posts. You can also click this link if…
A PublishPress user wrote to us with question: I have just installed your PublishPress Capabilities plugin, which is working almost perfectly. The problem that I’m having is that my user can upload images but can not edit the Alternative Text, Title, Description and Caption of the image, which I need the user to be able…
We’re excited to share some cool news about our most popular plugin, PublishPress Capabilities. This helpful tool gives you super-detailed control over who can do what on your WordPress site. PublishPress Capabilities now shows you the capabilities for many free and commercial plugins, from Yoast and Rank Math to Learn Dash and Gravity Forms.
Here at PublishPress, our focus is on creating publishing workflows in WordPress. This includes allowing you to create custom statuses in WordPress. However, before moving on to more advanced workflows, people often need some clarity on the basic workflow features in WordPress. For example, what exactly is the difference between “Pending Review” and “Draft”?
There are several ways to remove users from your WordPress site, or prevent them from accessing the admin area. For example, you can choose to change the user’s account to “No role for this site“. If you change this setting, the user will be able to log in to your site. And they will be…
One PublishPress user asked us if it’s possible to rearrange metaboxes in Gutenberg. This user has installed the PublishPress Checklists plugin and wanted the checklist area to be at the top of sidebar when writing posts. This image show the move they wanted:
This week, we launched a new feature that will be useful for almost everyone who builds WordPress sites. PublishPress Capabilities 2.9 introduces a new “Frontend Features” screen. Frontend Features allows you to hide any CSS element or add new CSS. What’s unique about this feature is that you can target it to specific groups of…
By default, WordPress users which access to the “Posts” screen can see all the Posts on the site, regardless of whether they are the author or can edit then. This is not a problem for many sites. After all, most Posts on most sites are publicly available – there’s no need to hide them. However,…
The moderate_comments capability is one of the more confusing permissions in WordPress. It controls who can manage and post comments on your site. I know many of you want to control who can manage or post comments on your site, so in this guide I’ll explain how this capability works. You may also find it…
The Gutenberg block editor makes it easy to add and edit content in WordPress. However, sometimes you want to do just the opposite! Sometimes your content should not be updated. It is now possible to lock blocks so that they can not be edited. This feature was introduced in WordPress 6.0.