PublishPress Permissions 4.9: Content Visibility Shortcodes and Live Teaser Previews
PublishPress Permissions 4.9.0 adds Content Visibility shortcodes, easier permission screens, Teaser previews, onboarding, and important security fixes.
PublishPress Permissions
These posts feature news and tutorials for the PublishPress Permissions plugin. This is our plugin for advanced WordPress permissions.
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PublishPress Permissions v4.8.3: Control Role Level Editing from User Management
PublishPress Permissions 4.8.3 adds a User Management toggle for role level editing restrictions and fixes counts, searches, menus, and filters for teams.
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Allow WordPress Users to Manage Lower-Level Accounts
We had a question from a user who wondered if they could restrict users to editing lower-level users in WordPress. For example, is it possible to allow Authors to only edit Subscribers and Contributors? Or is it possible to allow Contributors to edit only Subscribers? Yes, it is possible with the PublishPress Permissions Pro plugin….
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PublishPress Permissions v4.8.2: Clearer Group Permissions and Term Controls
PressPermit 4.8.2 makes user permissions easier to audit, adds clearer group context, improves term controls, and fixes key restriction issues for busy sites.
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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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Control Who Can View Your WordPress Posts
Who can view the posts on your WordPress site? Normally you have only two choices: 1. Everyone can view (Published status)2. Only Administrators or Editors can view (Private status) That’s it! Those are normally the only two options in WordPress.
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The Teaser Feature is Now Available to All PublishPress Permissions Users
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….
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An Introduction to bbPress Roles and Capabilities
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…
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Block All Users in a Role from Viewing a Post Type
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…
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What are Private Posts and Pages in WordPress?
“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…