The Elementor plugin is an excellent page-builder for WordPress sites. One PublishPress customer asked us if it was possible to allow some WordPress users to edit a single post with Elementor. Our first thought was “yes, this is easy”. We’ve done it many times using this approach, this approach and others.
If you run a WordPress website with many users, you probably have to answer account questions or solve website bugs for your users. Here at PublishPress, we rely heavily on the User Testing feature in the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. This allows us to browse our site and see exactly what the user sees. User Testing…
PublishPress customers have had some challenging questions for us. In this tutorial, I’m going to explain the answer to a challenging WooCommerce question that came in recently. One PublishPress customer has a large segment of their customer base wishing to call up and place an order over the phone. To make this happen, they need…
We had an interesting request from a PublishPress user this week. They wanted to allow a WordPress user to view WooCommerce orders, but they did not want this user to be able to edit the orders. Normally there are two roles in WooCommerce called “Shop Manager” and “Customer“. In order to solve this request, we…
In this guide we’re going to show you how to stop used from creating new WordPress posts. This is possible with the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. First, I’ll give you some helpful background that explains the approach we’re going to take. Then I’ll show you how to block users from creating new posts.
We had a question from a PublishPress user asked us about an interesting configuration for their WordPress eCommerce site. This user wanted to create a WooCommerce Product Editor role. Any users in this role will be responsible for editing all the WooCommerce products, but will not have access to other areas of the site.
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…
In a previous tutorial, we showed how to hide the “Edit with Elementor” button for specific users. However, one customer pointed out that the tutorial only works for users in the backend of WordPress. They also wanted to hide “Edit with Elementor” link on the WordPress frontend. This is possible with the Frontend Features option…
This week, we launched a new feature that will be useful for almost everyone who builds WordPress sites. PublishPress Capabilities 2.9 introduces a new “Frontend Features” screen. Frontend Features allows you to hide any CSS element or add new CSS. What’s unique about this feature is that you can target it to specific groups of…
“Additional CSS” is a feature from WordPress core that was first introduced on WordPress 4.7. This feature was initially created to make it easier for users to customize their site’s CSS without the need for additional plugins or directly editing their theme. You can normally find this feature by navigating to Appearance -> Customize ->…