Administrator Role WordPress Tutorials and Documentation

How to Control Permissions for WP Job Manager

Written on May 3, 2021. Leave a Comment

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 WordPress.org and the add-ons are at WPJobManager.com.

One PublishPress customer wanted to create a user who could manage the jobs and resumes inside the WP Job Manager. However, they didn't want to give this user access to any other area of the site.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a “Job Manager” role on your site. We'll also explore the capabilities available in the WP Job Manager plugin.

How to Control Permissions for the Contact Form 7 Plugin

Written on April 14, 2021. 1 Comment

Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular plugins in the WordPress world. However, it is a fairly basic plugin that lacks some key features such as access control.

In this guide, I'll show you how to control access to Contact Form 7 features. We'll use the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. If you want to take this tutorial a step further, check out how to control access to Contact Form 7 admin menus.

How to Prevent WordPress Users from Creating New Tags

Written on April 2, 2021. Leave a Comment

We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week:

I am trying to allow a some user role to choose an existing Tag, but not allow them to create new Tags. This was simple enough to do with Categories, but I cannot figure it out for Tags.

This was a great question that requires some explanation. We recommend the TaxoPress plugin for managing your tags, but PublishPress plugins can handle these more complex permissions.

How the Use the Moderate Comments Capability in WordPress

Written on March 25, 2021. Leave a Comment

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.

What Do WordPress Users See in the Admin Toolbar?

Written on March 23, 2021. Leave a Comment

WordPress sites display an admin toolbar for all logged-in users. This is visible on the frontend of your site and also in the WordPress admin area.

This toolbar contains shortcuts to key features in WordPress. A user in the Subscriber role will only see a few features. A user in the Administrator role may see a very busy toolbar, particularly on a site with many plugins.

In this blog post, we'll give you an introduction to what users in different roles may see in the admin toolbar. If you want to hide the admin toolbar for users, follow this guide.

The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Revisions

Written on March 17, 2021. Leave a Comment

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: Revisions.

How to Control Access to Elementor Templates

Written on March 15, 2021. Leave a Comment

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 Elementor, check out this guide on managing access to Elementor admin screens.

User Capabilities Are Different on Multisite Networks

Written on February 25, 2021. Leave a Comment

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.

In this guide, I'll show what to look out for when you're managing users on a multisite network. Click here to see how to modify user permissions on multisite.

Automatically Create Tags for Users in WordPress Roles

Written on February 15, 2021. Leave a Comment

We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week:

“Is there any way to automatically add a specific tag if the user is in a certain role?“

For example, Authors will always get “Tag A” added and Editors will always get “Tag B” added. Yes, this is possible with a little code.

Once this is done, you can use the Tags to organize the content or to trigger other functionality. For example, you can use PublishPress notifications to send an email for any post that has the Tag you choose.

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