The “Editor” user role is one of the default roles in WordPress, alongside “Subscriber”, “Contributor”, “Author”, and “Administrator”.
Editors have wide access when it comes to the content on your site. This role is designed to allow users to manage your content.
Editors can publish, edit and delete any content on your site. However, they are normally not allowed to change any settings on your site.
Many of us spend a lot of time working on our content. We spend hours making sure the spelling, grammar, punctuation are as good as possible. So we are worried about losing content. What happens if my browser crashes? What happens if someone edits my post and makes a mistake? Fortunately, WordPress has the solution:…
This week, a PublishPress customer wanted to understand the relationship between authors and comments their WordPress posts. The customer wanted to know if authors could see manage comments on their own posts. This tutorial is a guide to understanding the control that users have over comments on posts. You can also click this link if…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user this week: I am trying to allow user in one 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…
Here at PublishPress, our focus is on creating publishing workflows in WordPress. This includes allowing you to create custom statuses in WordPress. However, before moving on to more advanced workflows, people often need some clarity on the basic workflow features in WordPress. For example, what exactly is the difference between “Pending Review” and “Draft”?
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…
Did you know that every user role in WordPress has a level from 0 to 10? These levels are rarely visible in the WordPress admin area, but they have an important impact on how your site works. The very lowest user role level is given to the Subscriber role and that has a value of…
WordPress allows you to build multisite networks. This is an awesome feature and enables you to manage many sites from a single WordPress installation. However, some WordPress features do work differently on a multisite network. If you normally manage a single site, you may have to adjust your thinking. One of these features is permissions….
The “upload_files” capability is one of the most important in WordPress. If users don’t have the “upload_files” capability, they completely lose access to the Media Library. They can’t upload files or even browse media on your site. If users do not have the “upload_files” capability, this image below shows what they will see when they use…
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:
In this tutorial, I’m going to introduce you to the unfiltered_html permission. This permission is a security feature in WordPress that prevents users from using tags such as iframe and embed, plus also more advanced code such as Javascript. This unfiltered_html permission could be very dangerous in the wrong hands, so please don’t give this…