Over the last few years, our team has written several tutorials that help you find key information in the WordPress database. Here are some of those guides: In this guide, we’re going to look at where post revisions are stored in the WordPress database. If you’re not familiar with how revisions work, check out this…
If you want to create a dynamic and stylish display on your WordPress site, it’s a good idea to add a slideshow plugin. MetaSlider is the most popular WordPress slideshow plugin. With 100,000’s of websites already using MetaSlider, you’re in good company using the easiest and most powerful slider plugin for WordPress.
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 “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…
“Private” is one of eight post statuses available in WordPress. These statuses control whether WordPress posts are visible to the entire world, waiting for moderation, or sent to the trash to await deletion. When you write in WordPress, you will most commonly see the Draft, Pending Review and Publish statuses. The Private status is used…
You won’t be surprised to learn that WordPress is very, very careful about who can delete media files. Only Administrators are able to delete images and files in your Media Library. Anyone who is a Subscriber, Contributor, Author and Editor roles is not permitted to delete media items.
PublishPress Permissions 3.8 is available now. The Pro version has major improvements to the “Teaser” feature, which allows you to promote restricted content. You can choose messages to display for people who try to obtain your content but don’t have access. In the image below, the regular title shows but the actual content of the…
We had an interesting question from a PublishPress user. They wanted to create a WordPress user role where all users in this role could only see specific media files. They did not want the users in this role to be able to see other media files. This request is possible thanks to the PublishPress Permissions…
WordPress is very restrictive when it comes to deleting files from your site’s Media Library. By default, only users in the “Administrator” role are able to delete images and files in WordPress. Users in the Subscriber, Contributor, Author and Editor roles are not allowed to delete.
We had a question from a PublishPress user who wanted to create a “Media Manager” user role. Their goal was to restrict the users in this role so they could only access the “Media” area of the WordPress admin. The users would have full rights to modify any file in the media library. A “Media…