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General
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- How to Find the Latest Versions of PublishPress Plugins
- Changelogs for Free PublishPress Plugins
- Changelogs for PublishPress Authors
- Changelogs for PublishPress Blocks
- Changelogs for PublishPress Capabilities
- Changelogs for PublishPress Checklists
- Changelogs for PublishPress Future
- Changelogs for PublishPress Permissions
- Changelogs for PublishPress
- Changelogs for PublishPress Revisions
- Changelogs for PublishPress Series
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PublishPress Authors
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- Legacy: How to Create Custom Author Layouts
- Legacy: Add Data in Custom Author Layouts
- Legacy: Using Conditionals in Custom Author Layouts
- Legacy: Add CSS in Custom Author Layouts
- Legacy: The Loop Object in PublishPress Authors
- Legacy: Add External Data to PublishPress Authors
- Legacy: Modify the Author Avatar
- Legacy: Where are Author Layouts Stored in the Database?
- Legacy: Add Social Links to Author Profiles
- Deprecated Functions in PublishPress Authors
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PublishPress Blocks
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- Accordion Block
- Button Block
- Columns Block
- Contact Form Block
- Content Display Block
- Countdown Block
- Count Up Block
- Icon Block
- Image Block
- Images Slider Block
- Info Box Block
- Feature List block
- List Block
- Login & Register Block
- Map Block
- Newsletter Block
- Pricing Table block
- Search Bar Block
- Social Links Block
- Table of Contents Block
- Table Block
- Tabs Block
- Testimonial Block
- Video Block
- Woo Products Block
- Core Blocks
- Layout Options in PublishPress Blocks
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PublishPress Capabilities
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- The Admin Menus Screen
- Control Access to WooCommerce Admin Menus
- Control Access to Contact Form 7 Admin Menus
- Control Access to Yoast SEO Admin Menus
- Control Access to Elementor Admin Menus
- Control Access to Jetpack Admin Menus
- Control Access to WPForms Admin Menus
- Control Access to The Events Calendar Admin Menus
- Control Access to Gravity Forms Admin Menus
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PublishPress Checklists
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- Number of characters in title
- Numbers of words in content
- Number of categories
- Number of tags or taxonomy terms
- Number of characters in excerpt
- Number of internal links in content
- Number of external links in content
- All links use a valid format
- ALT Text for all images
- Featured image
- Latin characters in permalink
- Approved by a user in this role
- Yoast SEO tasks
- WooCommerce product tasks
- Featured image height and width
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PublishPress Future
- Introduction to PublishPress Future
- Ways to Expire Posts
- Defaults for Post Types
- PublishPress Future Email Notifications
- Shortcodes to Show Expiration Date
- Automatic Footer Display for Expiry Dates
- Scheduling in PublishPress Future: Cron Jobs
- Technical Details for PublishPress Future
- Troubleshooting in PublishPress Future
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PublishPress Permissions
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- Control Access to Custom Post Types
- Control Viewing Access to Specific Categories
- Allow Editing of Specific Pages
- Force Users to Create Posts in a Category or Parent Page
- Block Users from Seeing Non-Editable Posts
- Control Viewing Permissions for WordPress Content
- Control Editing Permissions for WordPress Content
- Block Access to WordPress Category and Tag Archives
- Configure Who Can See Other People's Posts
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- Developer Information for Permission Groups
- PublishPress Permissions Database Tables and Settings
- pp_create_group()
- pp_delete_group()
- pp_get_group()
- pp_get_group_by_name()
- pp_get_metagroup
- pp_get_groups()
- pp_get_group_members()
- pp_get_groups_for_user()
- pp_add_group_user()
- pp_remove_group_user()
- pp_update_group_user()
- ppc_get_roles()
- ppc_assign_roles()
- ppc_get_exceptions()
- ppc_assign_exceptions()
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PublishPress Planner
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- Getting Started With Notifications in PublishPress Planner
- Understanding the PublishPress Planner Notification Options
- Get PublishPress Planner Notifications by Email or Slack
- How to Customize PublishPress Planner Notifications With Shortcodes
- How to Use Reminder Notifications
- Notify Me: Manually Add Yourself to Notifications
- The PublishPress Planner Notifications Log
- Hooks and Filters for Notifications
- Troubleshooting Email Notifications in PublishPress Planner
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PublishPress Revisions
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- Does My Plugin Support PublishPress Revisions?
- A List of Some Plugins Supported by PublishPress Revisions
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and The Events Calendar
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and WooCommerce
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and Advanced Custom Fields
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and WPML
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and Custom Post Type UI
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and Yoast SEO
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and the PODS Framework
- Submit and Moderate Revisions with the Divi Theme
- Create Revisions Using an API
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and Elementor
- PublishPress Revisions Pro and Beaver Builder
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PublishPress Series
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How-to Guides
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- A WordPress Editorial Workflow for Writing, Reviewing and Publishing
- A WordPress Workflow for Editing and Reviewing
- Create a Workflow for University Departments in WordPress with PublishPress
- Create a Multi-Step Workflow in WordPress
- How to Create a Publishing Workflow for Authors in WordPress
- How to Get 2 People to Approve Content in WordPress
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- How to Allow WordPress Admin Area Access for WooCommerce Users
- How to Manage Permissions for WooCommerce Products
- Allow WooCommerce Users to Edit Only One Product
- How to Approve and Schedule Changes to WooCommerce Products
- WooCommerce Users Can Edit Products Only in Some Categories
- How Create WooCommerce Users Who Can Only View and Edit Products
- How to Create and Schedule Revisions for WooCommerce Products
- How to Control Who Can Duplicate WooCommerce Products
- Create WooCommerce Users Who Can Only View Reports
- How to Control Who Can Access WooCommerce Coupons
- How to Create WooCommerce Users Who Can Only View and Edit Orders
- How to Manage Permissions for WooCommerce Orders
- How to Control Permissions for WooCommerce Refunds
- How to Create Checklists with WooCommerce
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WordPress Permissions
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- activate_plugins
- add_users
- create_users
- delete_others_pages
- delete_others_posts
- delete_pages
- delete_posts
- delete_plugins
- delete_private_pages
- delete_private_posts
- delete_published_pages
- delete_published_posts
- delete_themes
- delete_users
- edit_dashboard
- edit_others_pages
- edit_others_posts
- edit_pages
- edit_plugins
- edit_posts
- edit_private_pages
- edit_private_posts
- edit_published_pages
- edit_published_posts
- edit_theme_options
- edit_themes
- edit_users
- erase_others_personal_data
- export
- export_others_personal_data
- import
- install_plugins
- install_themes
- list_users
- manage_categories
- manage_links
- manage_options
- manage_privacy_options
- moderate_comments
- promote_users
- read
- read_private_pages
- read_private_posts
- remove_users
- switch_themes
- unfiltered_html
- unfiltered_upload
- update_core
- update_plugins
- update_themes
- upload_files
Force Users to Create Posts in a Category or Parent Page
This guide will show you how to require users to create content in a specific category or parent page.
The solution in this guide is a flexible approach for sites with a substantial number of users in different roles. Depending on the needs of your site, the PublishPress plugins also offer other approaches such as this one based on user roles.
In this tutorial, we'll use examples from a university.
Our sample site has categories for different university departments. Our aim will be to restrict some users to posting in some categories, or underneath some parent pages. By default, Categories are only available on WordPress Posts. However, you can add Categories to other post types and so you will be able to use the tutorial for those post types too.

Our site also some pages for different areas of the university:

We are going to use the PublishPress Permissions plugin to restrict access for the Authors role. They will only be able to create:
- Posts in the “Engineering” category.
- Pages under the “North Campus” parent page.
Restrict which categories users can post in
Here's the process we'll use to set up this category restriction:
- Go to “Permissions” in your WordPress admin menu.
- Click “edit” for the “Author” role:

- Click “Set Specific Permissions”.
- Post Type: choose “Post”.
- Operation: choose “Assign Term”.
- Adjustment: choose “Limit to”
- Qualification: choose “selected Categories”.
- Select Categories: choose “Engineering”.

- Click “Add Selected”.
- Click “Save Permissions”.
- You will see that your permissions are saved, as in the image below.

- You can now test the “Author” role.
- When you go to create a post, you will only be able to see and select the “Engineering” category.

Restrict where users can create sub-pages
Here's the process we'll use to set up this sub-page restriction:
- Go to “Permissions” in your WordPress admin menu.
- Click “edit” for the “Author” role.
- Click “Set Specific Permissions”.
- Post Type: choose “Page”.
- Operation: choose “Set as Parent”.
- Adjustment: choose “Limit to”
- Qualification: choose “selected Pages”.
- Select Categories: choose “North Campus”.

Because Authors are blocked from accessing the “Pages” area in WordPress, we will also need to give them access.
- Click “Add Supplemental Roles”.
- Post Type: choose “Page”.
- Role: choose “Author”.
- Statuses: choose “Standard statuses”.
- Click “Add Role”.
- Click “Save Role”.

- You can now test the “Author” role.
- When you go to create a post, you will only be able to create pages with the “North Campus” parent page.
