The create_posts capability allows users to create new posts. Normally, this is wrapped up in the edit_posts capability and can not be given separately. However, in many situations you do not want to allow the same user to both “create” and “edit” posts.
The solution is the create_posts capability and you can give it to users thanks to the PublishPress Capabilities plugin.
The Elementor plugin is an excellent page-builder for WordPress sites. One PublishPress customer asked us if it was possible to allow some WordPress users to edit a single post with Elementor. Our first thought was “yes, this is easy”. We’ve done it many times using this approach, this approach and others.
In this guide we’re going to show you how to stop used from creating new WordPress posts. This is possible with the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. First, I’ll give you some helpful background that explains the approach we’re going to take. Then I’ll show you how to block users from creating new posts.
The Beaver Builder plugin is an excellent good page-builder for WordPress sites. This week, one PublishPress customer asked us if it was possible to allow some WordPress users to edit a single page with Beaver Builder. Our first thought was “yes, this is easy”. We’ve done it before many times using this approach, this approach…
PublishPress Capabilities 2.8 is available today. This release has some changes that will be immediately obvious when you update the plugin, plus also some useful features that won’t be immediately obvious. In this guide, I’ll introduce you to four new features in PublishPress Capabilities.
Here’s an interesting question from a PublishPress user: “I want to allow the Author role to edit published posts (theirs or others) and make those changes live without approval. But I don’t want those users to create new posts themselves.“ Yes, this is possible using the PublishPress Capabilities plugin.
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…
Update: this plugin is now called “PublishPress Capabilities”. Capability Manager Enhanced is one of the most popular permissions plugins for WordPress. We acquired the plugin in February and are working hard on improvements. Our goal is to create a suite of powerful publishing plugins for WordPress. Capability Manager Enhanced is key to that goal.