These posts feature news and tutorials for the PublishPress Permissions plugin. This is our plugin for advanced WordPress permissions.
Do you need to prevent visitors from accessing some of your site’s content? With the “Teaser” feature, you can customize what happens when visitors try to view your restricted content. This is really helpful for membership websites, or anyone who wants visitors to register to access content. The screenshot below shows how this feature works….
Here at PublishPress, we’re able to support almost any other WordPress plugin. However, there is one popular plugin called bbPress that doesn’t always work smoothly with our code, or other user management plugins. bbPress has over 300,000 users and is the commonly used discussion board in WordPress. I’m going to give you a guide on…
This week, a PublishPress user asked us if it is possible to customize the permissions for a single WordPress user. The answer is “yes”, and in this guide I’ll show you two ways to do that:
We had a question from a PublishPress customer who wanted to prevent everyone in a specific user role from accessing a post type on their site. For example, they wanted to block all users in the “Author” role from viewing Pages on their site. This is possible with the PublishPress Permissions plugin. In this short…
“Private” is one of eight post statuses available in WordPress. These statuses control whether WordPress posts are visible to the entire world, waiting for moderation, or sent to the trash to await deletion. When you write in WordPress, you will most commonly see the Draft, Pending Review, and Publish statuses. The Private status is used…
A few PublishPress users have written to us and asked if it’s possible to control who can access Elementor templates. By default, only users in the “Administrator” role have the ability to create and edit new templates. In this guide, I’ll show you how to allow other users to manage templates. For more control over…
The Elementor plugin is an excellent page-builder for WordPress sites. One PublishPress customer asked us if it was possible to allow some WordPress users to edit a single post with Elementor. Our first thought was “yes, this is easy”. We’ve done it many times using this approach, this approach and others.
We had a really interesting question from a PublishPress user: We have many clients who we write posts for. We write the posts 6 months in advance, and get them approved by the clients. Is this possible with the PublishPress plugins? The answer is “Yes”, you can do this. In this tutorial, I’ll show you…
Earlier this week, we had a question from a PublishPress user. They are using PublishPress Permissions to control access to specific posts and pages. In the image below, you can see the metabox from the PublishPress Permissions plugin. For each role, you can choose whether or not they can edit this page. The Author and…
Normally, on a WordPress site, users can edit unpublished and published content in the same way. However, as a publisher, you know that there’s a big difference between editing unpublished and published content! It’s often important to approve changes to anything that is live on your website.