The “Administrator” role is one of the default user roles in WordPress, alongside “Subscriber”, “Contributor”, “Author” and “Editor”.
The Administrator role is the most powerful on a WordPress site. Administrators can go anywhere and change anything. People in the Administrator role can see every area of the WordPress admin area.
This week, one PublishPress user asked us about an interesting WordPress problem. They could not see the “Author” dropdown option when they were writing posts. This screenshot below shows how the Author dropdown normally appears:
PublishPress Statuses is a new plugin that we’ve been working on for almost a year. Previously, we’ve had some support for custom statuses in other plugins including PublishPress Planner and PublishPress Permissions. However, custom statuses are a really important feature for WordPress publishers. We’ve had numerous requests to improve how statuses work in WordPress. So…
Here at PublishPress, our focus is on creating publishing workflows in WordPress. This includes allowing you to create custom statuses in WordPress. However, before moving on to more advanced workflows, people often need some clarity on the basic workflow features in WordPress. For example, what exactly is the difference between “Pending Review” and “Draft”?
“Additional CSS” is a feature from WordPress core that was first introduced on WordPress 4.7. This feature was initially created to make it easier for users to customize their site’s CSS without the need for additional plugins or directly editing their theme. You can normally find this feature by navigating to Appearance -> Customize ->…
This week, a PublishPress customer wanted to understand the relationship between authors and comments their WordPress posts. The customer wanted to know if authors could see manage comments on their own posts. This tutorial is a guide to understanding the control that users have over comments on posts. You can also click this link if…
The moderate_comments capability is one of the more confusing permissions in WordPress. It controls who can manage and post comments on your site. I know many of you want to control who can manage or post comments on your site, so in this guide I’ll explain how this capability works. You may also find it…
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…
Many of us spend a lot of time working on our content. We spend hours making sure the spelling, grammar, punctuation are as good as possible. So we are worried about losing content. What happens if my browser crashes? What happens if someone edits my post and makes a mistake? Fortunately, WordPress has the solution:…
Did you know that every user role in WordPress has a level from 0 to 10? These levels are rarely visible in the WordPress admin area, but they have an important impact on how your site works. The very lowest user role level is given to the Subscriber role and that has a value of…
WordPress allows you to build multisite networks. This is an awesome feature and enables you to manage many sites from a single WordPress installation. However, some WordPress features do work differently on a multisite network. If you normally manage a single site, you may have to adjust your thinking. One of these features is permissions….