The edit_posts capability controls access to many of the key features in WordPress.
Without the edit_posts capability, you won’t be able to access the “Posts” area of WordPress.
Also, if you don’t have the edit_posts permission, you won’t be able to create new Posts or upload new media.
By default, WordPress users which access to the “Posts” screen can see all the Posts on the site, regardless of whether they are the author or can edit then. This is not a problem for many sites. After all, most Posts on most sites are publicly available – there’s no need to hide them. However,…
The moderate_comments capability is one of the more confusing permissions in WordPress. It controls who can manage and post comments on your site. I know many of you want to control who can manage or post comments on your site, so in this guide I’ll explain how this capability works. You may also find it…
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:
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…
When you log in to a WordPress site, you will see boxes full of information. These are called “Dashboard Widgets”. You will probably see a “Welcome to WordPress!” widget with lots of useful links. There’s also a “WordPress Events and News” widget with official updates. There’s an “At a Glance” widget so you can quickly…
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…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week: I am trying to allow a some user role to choose an existing Tag, but not allow them to create new Tags. This was simple enough to do with Categories, but I cannot figure it out for Tags. This was a great question that…
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…
We seen a few PublishPress users report problems with embeds in Gutenberg. If they restrict permissions for users, they sometimes find that those users can not add embeds from YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and other sites.
The goal of PublishPress is to provide professional publishing tools for WordPress. When larger, professional organizations start to use PublishPress, a lot of their questions revolve around permissions. Permissions questions do not have easy answers in WordPress. The permissions system in WordPress can be confusing. One example of this confusion is the “Edit Posts” permission….