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, 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…
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…