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…
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.
In a previous blog post, we talked about hiding the Permissions metabox for a specific user role. Now we will talk about the opposite: showing the PublishPress Permissions metabox for a specific user role. In this case, we will take an example of the Editor role. By default, the Editor role only gets access to…
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…
Welcome to the fourth annual review from PublishPress. You can read our previous reviews for 2019, 2020, and 2021. We write these annual reviews for at least three reasons: Here’s our recap of key events for PublishPress in 2022.
When you install Elementor, there will be a “Templates” menu on your WordPress admin menu. However, it can look distracting for some roles if the user doesn’t need access to this “Templates” menu. If you don’t want the “Templates” menu link to appear for a certain user role, you can hide this link for specific…
If you run a WordPress website which allows users to log in, you probably spend a lot of time answering account questions or solving website bugs for your users. Here at PublishPress, we often have to browse our site and see exactly what the user sees. We need to test the user’s account without resetting…
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…
This week, a PublishPress customer asked us about an interesting configuration for their WordPress eCommerce site. The customer wanted to create a WooCommerce Product Editor role. Any users in this role would be responsible for editing all the WooCommerce products, but would not have access to other areas of the site.