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.
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.
The Elementor plugin is an excellent good page-builder for WordPress sites. It is also growing very fast, with huge numbers of new downloads every day. This week, 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…
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.
We recently wrote about the edit_posts permission in WordPress. This permission is incredibly powerful. The edit_posts permission controls access to at least six important writing features in WordPress:
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…
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…
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.