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.
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…
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 plugin 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…
If you run a WordPress multisite network, it can be helpful to standardize your setup across the various sites. In this guide, I’ll show you how to control user roles and permissions across the network. We’ll use the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. Click here to see the differences between WordPress permissions on a single site and…
We seen a few PublishPress users report problems with embeds in Gutenberg. If they restrict permissions for users, they sometimes find that those users can not add embeds from YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and other sites.
iFrames are a feature of the web that can be very useful and also very frustrating. WordPress is a good example of this. On one hand, WordPress uses iFrames as a key part of the Customizer. On the other hand, WordPress often blocks iFrames as a security threat. In this guide, I’ll show you how…
Many requests from PublishPress revolve around published posts. Some site owners want to stop their users from updating published content. Other site owners want to go further and stop their users from editing published content at all. This is because their content often needs an approval process. And what’s the point of an approval process…
In some situations, you may need to completely refresh your WordPress site. If you need to reset your WordPress user permissions, this is possible with a plugin called PublishPress Capabilities. This plugin has an option to delete all the current permissions and user roles, and restore the WordPress defaults.
Phew! 2020 is over. That was intense. 2020 was a difficult personal year for many of our team, with family members passing away, losing jobs, and enduring hard times. Fortunately, the PublishPress business was a bright spot this year. Our team (Anderson, Kevin, Valentin, and myself) rallied together. And our customers were great – I…