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:
Earlier this week, we had a question from a PublishPress user. They are using PublishPress Permissions to control access to specific posts and pages. In the image below, you can see the metabox from the PublishPress Permissions plugin. For each role, you can choose whether or not they can edit this page. The Author and…
This week, we talked with a PublishPress customer who has a busy site with many posts from different authors. They wanted to create an “inbox” effect, where the WordPress “Posts” screen is like a personal email inbox for each author. In the image below, you can see posts from multiple different authors. This can be…
On a normal WordPress site, every author automatically gets their own page. So, if my username is “steve”, I’ll have my own URL which will look like /author/steve/. This contains all the Posts I’ve written on the site. A good example of this can be found on the popular WPTavern.com blog. One of the main…
“Lazy Loading” is a technique that helps the important parts of your site load quickly for visitors. Lazy Loading makes sure that page elements that are non-critical will load after the more important elements. Imagine you open an article you want to read on the internet. Usually, you would start at the title and perhaps…
One PublishPress user wrote to us and asked about this situation: “I would like every user to get a place where they can enter their own journal entries that no one else can see.” This it is possible to set up private journals with the PublishPress plugins, and I’ll explain how in this post.
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…
This week, one PublishPress customer was in a situation where they needed to create Tags based on the Authors of a post. The goal was that when someone writes a post, their name was automatically added as a Tag. Once this was done, the customer could use the Tags to trigger other functionality. For example,…
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…
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…
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…