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.
Update: PublishPress Statuses is now available on WordPress.org. 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…
WordPress is a platform that focuses on publishers. The project’s mission is to “Democratize Publishing“. However, WordPress does lack some key features that most publishers need. One of these missing features is custom statuses. The current choice for WordPress users is between “Draft” and “Pending Review”. Here’s a typical request from one of our PublishPress…
“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 ->…
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…
WP All Import is a popular WordPress plugin that allows users to import large amounts of data into their WordPress site. WP ALL Import supports a variety of sources such as CSV or XML files. While the plugin offers a lot of flexibility and customization options, some users may encounter an issue when it comes…
This week we talked with a PublishPress customer who wanted to build an approval process for his website. His goal is to allow administrators to assign empty posts to authors, who can then add the content and pass them back to the administrator for approval. Here are the four steps in that workflow: In this…
The common practice of sharing WordPress user accounts makes it easy for agencies to provide site access for both developers and maintainers. But this practice has many downsides. As we’ll discuss below, we don’t recommend sharing WordPress user accounts in any professional setting.
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…
W3 Total Cache is one of the most popular performance and caching plugins in WordPress. W3 Total Cache has caching features, but also offers multiple other options for improving your site’s speed. A large number of users install PublishPress plugins and also W3 Total Cache on their site. So we’ve had some questions about how…
JetEngine is a very ambitious project that attempts to do almost everything for a WordPress website. JetEngine is available from Crocoblock.com and supports both Gutenberg and Elementor. Their products span everything from Gutenberg blocks and themes to creating post types and options pages. This image below is taken from their website and gives you some…