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.
By default, WordPress only allows Administrators to create users. If you want to allow other roles to create users then you need to give them at least the promote_users, list_users, edit_users and create_users permissions. However, if you give them those permissions, they can create and edit users in any role. So you could have Editors…
Several of our PublishPress plugins allow you to control what users can do on your WordPress site. These plugins allow you to change user permissions via the WordPress admin area. However, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes. PublishPress customers often have questions from users about WordPress permissions and where they are stored in…
Finally, you can get peace and quiet from all the noisy messages and advertisements in your WordPress admin area. You know the problem. Many WordPress plugins post messages asking you to upgrade, leave a review, enjoy a free gift, sign up for data tracking, and much more. This screenshot is typical of what happens. How…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week: I am trying to allow user in one 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…
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….
Over the last few years, customers have sent in many feature requests for PublishPress. Some of those are requests unique to one person. Others are sent in by dozens of customers, and we try really hard to build those features! Top of the feature request list has always been an activity log. People want to…
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:…
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…
This month we’ve got some exciting news to share with you. We’ve released a new plugin called PublishPress Statuses. Have you ever wanted to label a WordPress post something other than “Draft” or “Pending Review”? PublishPress Statuses allows you to create additional statuses for your posts. For example, you can add statuses such as “In…
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: