The Theme Editor in WordPress allows you make direct changes to your site’s theme files. This is not always a good idea because changes made via the Theme Editor can easily take your site offline. There is no “undo” or “rollback” button if you make a mistake. In fact, you will see this message when…
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”?
This week, one PublishPress user asked us about an interesting WordPress problem. They could not see the Author option when they were writing posts. This is how the Author dropdown normally appears:
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:…
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…
We had an interesting question from one of our users who is using the LearnDash plugin for the WordPress Learning Management system. They wanted to lock down many of the LearnDash features and create a user role role that can only access the “Lessons” and “Topics” submenus in LearnDash. This is possible thanks to the…
One PublishPress user asked how to create a custom user role that only has access to the “Coupons” area in the WooCommerce Analytics area. They did not want the user to have access to the WooCommerce report menu. This user was a marketing person and only needed to check on the success of their marketing campaigns…
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…
We had a question this week from a PublishPress customer who wanted to understand the relationship between authors and their WordPress posts. They wanted to know if authors could see – or perhaps even manage – comments on other people’s posts. This tutorial is a guide to understanding the control that users have over comments…
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.