We have a PublishPress customer who also uses the Gravity Forms plugin. They asked us if it was possible to create a user who can do nothing in WordPress, except for edit form entries in Gravity Forms.
Yes, this is possible, and this tutorial will show you how.
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 the database. This post is an introduction to those database tables.
One thing to note: although most people refer to “user permissions” or perhaps “user access”, WordPress uses the word “capabilities”.
“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 less frequently, but it can be useful in some situations. Private posts are for content that you only want high-level users to see. These posts are most useful for internal communication and documentation. I would not recommend storing top-secret information in these posts, but rather want to hide content from regular users.
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 requests from PublishPress revolve around published posts.
Some site owners want to stop their users from updating published content.
Other site owners want to go further and stop their users from editing published content at all. This is because their content often needs an approval process. And what's the point of an approval process if people can go in later and make any changes they want?
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 and others.
It is possible to control access to certain Gutenberg blocks for some users or WordPress roles.
This is possible thanks to the PublishPress Blocks plugin and its Block Access system.
Keep reading to learn how to use this useful PublishPress Blocks feature.
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 you visit the “Theme Editor” screen:
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. This single permission can control access to most key writing features in WordPress.