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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used to lookup information or devices within a network. In this guide, we’re going to talk about using LDAP to connect user accounts to WordPress. But there are many other users of LDAP. For example, a printer can be a device on your network, so you can use LDAP…
When you install Elementor, there will be a “Templates” menu on your WordPress admin menu. However, it can look distracting for some roles if the user doesn’t need access to this “Templates” menu. If you don’t want the “Templates” menu link to appear for a certain user role, you can hide this link for specific…
Every user account on a WordPress website is assigned to one of five roles. These WordPress user roles control access to the site backend, the ability to modify your user profile, and access to all the features of WordPress such as creating content and using plugins. In this post, we’ll explore how agencies can use…
PublishPress Revisions is the plugin that allows you to manage content changes in WordPress. The plugin provides a special role called “Revisor” that can submit and approve changes, but not create new content. One PublishPress customer noticed that users in the “Revisor” role can approve their own changes. In this article, I’ll explain how to…
The PublishPress Permissions plugin allows you to customize who can read and edit individual items in WordPress. You can control user access using a metabox. This metabox can control access to Posts, Pages, Categories, Media and more. Click here for more details on this feature. We had a question this week from a user who…
If you run a WordPress website which allows users to log in, you probably spend a lot of time answering account questions or solving website bugs for your users. Here at PublishPress, we often have to browse our site and see exactly what the user sees. We need to test the user’s account without resetting…
PublishPress Blocks 3.1 is available now and allows you to control which users can see a specific Gutenberg block. The PublishPress Blocks plugin has a new “User Role Controls feature”. This makes it possible to add the following restrictions to any Gutenberg block: Show a block to logged in users only. Show a block to…
PublishPress Permissions 3.8 is available now. The Pro version has major improvements to the “Teaser” feature, which allows you to promote restricted content. You can choose messages to display for people who try to obtain your content but don’t have access. In the image below, the regular title shows but the actual content of the…
PublishPress Authors 3.30 is available now and it has major improvements to the “Author Boxes” feature. This feature allows you to show author profiles under posts and in other areas of your site. “Author Boxes” now offers a live preview, so you can see the design of each Author Box before making it live. And…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user. They wanted to create a WordPress user role where all users in this role could only see specific media files. They did not want the users in this role to be able to see other media files. This request is possible thanks to the PublishPress Permissions…