The “Author” role is one of the default user roles in WordPress, alongside “Subscriber”, “Contributor”, “Editor” and “Administrator”. Authors have a medium level of access to WordPress: more permissions than some roles and less than others.
Here’s a rundown of what Authors can do on a default WordPress site:
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…
PublishPress Revisions is the plugin that allows you to manage content changes in WordPress. The plugin provides a special role called “Revisor” that can submit and approve changes, but not create new content. One PublishPress customer noticed that users in the “Revisor” role can approve their own changes. In this article, I’ll explain how to…
If you run a WordPress website which allows users to log in, you probably spend a lot of time answering account questions or solving website bugs for your users. Here at PublishPress, we often have to browse our site and see exactly what the user sees. We need to test the user’s account without resetting…
WordPress is very restrictive when it comes to deleting files from your site’s Media Library. By default, only users in the “Administrator” role are able to delete images and files in WordPress. Users in the Subscriber, Contributor, Author and Editor roles are not allowed to delete.
If you run a WordPress website with many users, you probably have to answer account questions or solve website bugs for your users. Here at PublishPress, we rely heavily on the User Testing feature in the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. This allows us to browse our site and see exactly what the user sees. User Testing…
We had a question from a PublishPress user who wanted to create a “Media Manager” user role. Their goal was to restrict the users in this role so they could only access the “Media” area of the WordPress admin. The users would have full rights to modify any file in the media library. A “Media…
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, but what the user sees will depend on their user role. A user in the “Subscriber” role will only see…
WPML is the acronym for “WordPress Multilingual Plugin”. WPML is a WordPress plugin that enables you to turn any WordPress website into a multilingual website. The PublishPress Capabilities plugin has support for WPML. This means that you can create user roles that are allowed to access specific areas of the WPML plugin.
PublishPress Authors 3.19 is available today. This release has a powerful new Author Pages feature, so you can showcase the work of each individual author. In this guide, I’ll explain why we built this feature, and then I’ll explore how you can use it.
PublishPress Capabilities 2.3.5 is available now and the major new feature is a “Roles” screen. This is one place where you can view and manage all the user roles on your site. This Roles screen is going to be the cornerstone of many new features we’ll add to PublishPress Capabilities in the next few months….