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.
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…
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…
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…
Many requests from PublishPress revolve around published posts. Some site owners want to stop their users from updating published content. Other site owners want to go further and stop their users from editing published content at all. This is because their content often needs an approval process. And what’s the point of an approval process…
It is possible to control access to certain Gutenberg blocks for some users or WordPress roles. This is possible thanks to the PublishPress Blocks plugin and its Block Access system. Keep reading to learn how to use this useful PublishPress Blocks feature.
In another tutorial here at PublishPress, we showed how to hide other users’ posts in the WordPress admin area. This means that users will only see their own posts when they log in to WordPress. One PublishPress member asked us if it was possible to do the same thing for the Media Library. Yes, it…
PublishPress Authors is the best plugin for adding many authors to one WordPress post. With this plugin, you can create detailed author profiles that linked to WordPress users, or you can add guest authors. There are new releases for both the Free and Pro versions of PublishPress Authors. Here’s an overview of the new features…