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The New User Testing Feature in PublishPress Capabilities

Written by Steve Burge on October 28, 2022.

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 their password.

To solve this problem, we've built a new “User Testing” feature in the PublishPress Capabilities plugin. This is available in Capabilities version 2.6.

PublishPress Capabilities Can Clean Up Your Post Editing Screens

Written by Steve Burge on May 13, 2022.

If I had to pick a word to describe my experience with large WordPress sites, it's “overwhelming”.

There are so many admin notices, plugin alerts, review requests, and other demands for your attention. In the post editor, and particularly in Gutenberg, there are a ton of sidebar, tabs, settings, metaboxes, and configuration options.

How the Use the Moderate Comments Capability in WordPress

Written by Steve Burge on June 3, 2021.

The moderate_comments capability is one of the more confusing permissions in WordPress. It controls who can manage and post comments on your site.

I know many of you want to control who can manage or post comments on your site, so in this guide I'll explain how this capability works. You may also find it helpful to read our guide to authors managing comments on their own posts.

An Introduction to bbPress Roles and Capabilities

Written by Steve Burge on February 16, 2021.

Here at PublishPress, we're able to support almost any other WordPress plugin.

However, there is one popular plugin called bbPress that doesn't always work smoothly with our code, or other user management plugins.

bbPress has over 300,000 users and is the commonly used discussion board in WordPress.

I'm going to give you a guide on how to manage roles and capabilities in bbPress. I'll also touch on what bbPress does differently, and what it means for PublishPress users.

How to Restore the Default User Permissions on a WordPress site

Written by Steve Burge on January 15, 2021.

In some situations, you may need to completely refresh your WordPress site.

If you need to reset your WordPress user permissions, this is possible with a plugin called PublishPress Capabilities. This plugin has an option to delete all the current permissions and user roles, and restore the WordPress defaults.

Say Hello to Version 2.0 of the Permissions Add-on

Written by Steve Burge on April 5, 2018.

Version 2.0 of the Permissions add-on is now available.

This is a major update, so I'll give you a detailed overview of what the add-on does and what has changed.

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