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How to Hide WordPress Dashboard Widgets

Written by Steve Burge on November 2, 2021.

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 see key statistics for your site.

Those are only some of the default widgets. And when you add plugins, they will also add extra widgets. In the image below, you can see a widget called “Easy Digital Downloads Sales” which comes from a plugin.

How to Control Permissions for WP Job Manager

Written by Steve Burge on June 23, 2021.

WP Job Manager is a popular plugin with over 100,000 active installs and a wide range of available add-ons. This plugin can add job boards to your WordPress site so people can look for work and post their resumes. WP Job Manager is built by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com. There's a free version on WordPress.org and the add-ons are at WPJobManager.com.

A PublishPress customer wanted to create a user who could manage the jobs and resumes inside the WP Job Manager. However, they didn't want to give this user access to any other area of the site.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a “Job Manager” role on your site. We'll also explore the capabilities available in the WP Job Manager plugin.

Control Permissions for the Flamingo Plugin (with Contact Form 7)

Written by Steve Burge on April 8, 2021.

Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular WordPress plugins ever, with over 5 million installs.

Contact Form 7 is so popular that even it's add-ons can have 100,000's of users. Click here for our guide to Contact Form 7 permissions and there's also a guide to controlling access to Contact Form 7 admin menus.

Flamingo is a plugin which stores messages submitted through Contact Form 7. Flamingo was written by Takayuki Miyoshi, who also developed Contact Form 7.

Capability Manager Enhanced Has New Lockout Prevention Features

Written by Steve Burge on February 28, 2019.

Update: this plugin is now called “PublishPress Capabilities”.

This month, we added Capability Manager Enhanced to the PublishPress suite. This was part of our acquisition of over a dozen plugins.

Capability Manager Enhanced is a super-popular plugin with over 70,000 active users. This plugin allows you to edit the user permissions on your WordPress site.

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How to Control Permissions for WP Job Manager

Control Permissions for the Flamingo Plugin (with Contact Form 7)

Capability Manager Enhanced Has New Lockout Prevention Features

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