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…
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.
WordPress sites display an admin toolbar for all logged-in users. This is visible on the frontend of your site and also in the WordPress admin area. This toolbar contains shortcuts to key features in WordPress, but what the user sees will depend on their user role. A user in the “Subscriber” role will only see…
WordPress sites display an admin toolbar for all logged-in users. This is visible on the frontend of your site and also in the WordPress admin area. This toolbar contains shortcuts to key features in WordPress. A user in the Subscriber role will only see a few features. A user in the Administrator role may see…
Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular plugins in the WordPress world. However, it is a fairly basic plugin that lacks some key features such as access control. In this guide, I’ll show you how to control access to Contact Form 7 features. We’ll use the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. If you want to…
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…
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…
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 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….