We had an interesting question from one of our users who is using the LearnDash plugin for the WordPress Learning Management system. They wanted to lock down many of the LearnDash features and create a user role role that can only access the “Lessons” and “Topics” submenus in LearnDash. This is possible thanks to the…
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…
PublishPress Capabilities 2.3.5 is available now and the major new feature is a “Roles” screen. This is one place where you can view and manage all the user roles on your site. This Roles screen is going to be the cornerstone of many new features we’ll add to PublishPress Capabilities in the next few months….
Jetpack is one of the most popular plugins in WordPress with over 5 million users. The plugin is a swiss-army knife that offers users a ton of helpful features including security, spam-blocking, backups, traffic statistics, and more. Several PublishPress customers have asked us how to control access to the Jetpack settings. For example, one user…
WP Job Manager is a popular plugin with over 100,000 active installs and a wide range of available add-ons. This plugin can add job boards to your WordPress site so people can look for work and post their resumes. WP Job Manager is built by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. There’s a free version on…
A PublishPress user has both Gravity Forms and WooCommerce on their site. They asked this is interesting question: Can I use the Capabilities plugin to give the “Shop Manager” role user access to Gravity Forms entries? The answer is “yes”, and we’ll show you how to do it in this guide. We’re going to be…
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…