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Tagged with user-roles customization
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I want to submit multiple users if checkbox is checked
The following code is getting all terms and see if any one of them is checked or not.
If any term is checked a form should show under the selected checkbox with email, the username(auto-generated) and ...
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Remove plugin settings from post creation page for a user role
I want to remove plugin settings from the bottom of the post creating page for a given user type. I want to remove the "Plugin Organization" drop-down from the post creating page for a specific user ...
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how to make a custom field readonly or disabled by user role?
i am trying to make a simple custom field (made without a plugin) readonly or disabled for a specific user role in functions.php, is this possible ?
thanks
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How to disable plugin capability : "create new category"
I tested that a capability can be disabled for any user role, but I found nothing to block the capability of a plugin. Is this possible?
any help is greatly appreciated
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Security Issues with custom user role or changing core role capabilities?
I have a scenario where I need a editor like role but with extended capabilities where they can access woocommerce orders,products and user page. If I would to create a custom role or change the core ...
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Custom roles and capabilities media not work right
Help with new user wordpress capabilities and roles custom.
The media not work upload and display images in galery.
image error:
https://i.sstatic.net/VE59k.png
code:
if ( get_role('user_products')...
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Best practices to handle multilpe roles and capabilities?
Consider a complex system made in WordPress with multiple roles and capabilities. Let's take a University website, for instance.
A University website could have a capability to post news to the home, ...
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Remove all video attachment, both files and post/postmeta from database?
I am trying to make a function which deletes all the video files + the attachment post and attachments postmeta from the database. This should run when the user role is switched to "basic".
And if the ...
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Allow multisite admins only to create users with one specific user role?
I have this function which prevents my three custom roles (used for multisite admins) to create users with other roles than "User".
The three roles I have made are called, Basic, Standard and Premium, ...
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Creating user relationships
I have a project where I feel I need to create relationships between users but since this is not natively implemented in wordpress as far as am concerned then I will need advice on how to do it.
One ...
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Restrict viewing of posts by category, user role
This answer here is almost exactly what I'm after, but I'm just having trouble making it work for me.
Basically I've set a bunch of custom user roles using add_role() and register_activation_hook(). ...
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Allow role to delete posts but block him the wp-admin
I have a custom user role : Photograph.
This role should not be able to log into the back-office, but have to be able to delete their own posts from the front-end.
I am using this code to block all ...
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Show comments based on user role in front end
I want to allow commenting on a custom post type by a specific user role. And a user can see only his comments only.
Scenario is
e.g User roles are student and instructor. The Student can comment on ...
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Overwrite user role
We're using this registration plugin to serve as a registration form to new users subscribing to our site.
We have two (2) types of users:
Students, and
Employers.
Creating two different pages both ...
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Custom user roles
I need to add two custom user roles that have different capabilities.
The two user roles are meant for correctors, the only difference is that one corrector should only have access to the posts of our ...
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How to delete user roles?
I installed BuddyPress which created additional user roles but even after deleting BuddyPress those roles are still there. How can I delete these roles? I have tried the remove_role() command but it ...
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How to give different user access to different people?
I have a video tutorial website where I have to provide videos. For that purpose I have to give different user access to those who login to particular courses.
So can you please help me what is the ...
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Hide content and functions from specific user roles
I'm working on a theme and i am wondering how i can hide specific content and functions from certain user roles via PHP. I am working with a lot of prebuilt functions so what i am after is some code ...
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Custom Role with Own Page Edit Capability
I need to create a custom role that is only able to edit and publish his own page (page created by admin and afterwards assigned to the user with the custom role).
I have successfully created the new ...
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Switch-Case and user_role
I am trying to create a page that shows all users with a selection of details. One of those details is the user role it has. For each role I want to display a different string. In order to achieve ...
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Disallow "contributors" to edit their own posts once they've been set to "Pending Review"
My question is exactly what is in the title: how can I disallow "contributors" to edit their own posts once they've been set to "Pending Review"? I can't seem to find any documentation on how to do ...
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Users can only save their draft once before saving for revision
I use the Members Plugin and Custom Post Types.
I created a role and want them to contribute posts (within this Custom Post Type musician) but don't publish them. Additionally I want to give the ...
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How to Change the Entire WordPress Admin panel Look and Feel?
I am trying to change the WordPress Admin panel look and feel for depending upon the different role types that are in WordPress. How can create/assign different themes for each role i.e.
Editor > ...
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Change the functionality of wordpress users module in admin
I want to restrict wordpress admin to view all users in user list.
For say, I have created custom roles (company users, employee). A company user type role can have multiple employees.
I want ...
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Prevent from deleting any user role but subscriber
In the administration of my blog, I would like to prevent anyone (admin included) from deleting any user unless it is a simple subscriber.
Basicaly, in the "users" section of the administration, I ...
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How to not allow custom roles to edit published custom post types?
I have a WP site with a custom role (revisor) and a custom post type (events).
What I would like to do is allow my revisors to add new events, but not edit existing.
I'm already using the Members ...
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Ability to only view (not edit) other user's personal profile information
I have created 2 roles, Center and Student, for my WordPress website with different capabilities using members plugin.
I want the student role users to be only able to view and edit their personal ...
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How to stop displaying the Id without losing the functionality
I am using a custom code to make certain plugin's functionality available only with particular capabilities.
Here is the code:
<?php
// Check if User can Edit
// Set permission to false = 'not ...
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Capability to edit own posts and not others
What is the capability that let users to edit their own posts and not others? I am trying to enable the post authors to avail a plugin function only on the posts they own.
The permission to access ...
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Saving a post, content filtering and user levels
I wrote a function to add and insert additional metadata to images. It looks like this:
function add_image_orientation_fields_to_edit($form_fields, $post) {
$current_value = strtolower(...
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Redirect After Delete User in Backend
How do I redirect to a certain page after user deletion?
For demonstration purpose, let's say I want to redirect to the dashboard on user subscriber deletion. This is what I have tried so far:
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Downgrade user from role that allows post creation
I am an admin of a multi-author blog. I am implementing a monitoring system which will require me to downgrade a user from an 'author' (this role allows them to make a custom post) back to the '...
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Modify custom Users Manage page
I'm trying to create a submenu page under 'Users' which is like the 'All Users' page but for listing users of specific roles only. Let's just call this submenu page 'Customer'.
So far I managed to ...
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What capability is required to view posts, scheduled in the future, by someone else?
So, I'm trying to create a number of custom roles within my theme to meet with the custom requirements of the site.
The first, and most simple, being 'external viewer' who I want to simply be able to ...
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WordPress SEO by Yoast: Hide Meta Boxes in Posts for Non-admins
I have multi-author website and I am not very comfortable for allowing all members to enter SEO details in the posts they are publishing. I would like this would be visible only to Administrator of ...
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How to check user role?
I have functions that have to execute based on the user roles. How do I check the user role so that I can insert the respective function under their role?
EG.
if ($_GET['role'] == "free member" ) {//...
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Restrict access to non-wordpress section of site with user roles?
Is it possible to limit access to a page using wordpress user roles that isn't included in the wordpress install.
For example I have a CS Cart install with only a couple of products but I need to ...
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WordPress strips some attributes for author posts
I added template to my WP posts, so when you click Add New content area alreday with text.
Template smt. like this
<div id="myDiv"><p>Add your text here</p></div>
If user has ...
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How do I properly format the user_role array?
I used a role editor recently and needed to delete a role. After deleting it I noticed that it began to appear as blank in the edit user role drop-down. After a bit of investigating and deleting ...
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Define new user capability for custom post types?
If I create a custom post type and want to create custom capabilities for that, how do I do this? For example, I want to let my Editors to edit and create and delete posts and pages, but not the ...
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How do I "trash" a custom post type post while logged in as Admin
I am using the members plugin and have a custom post type of "listing"
When I navigate to listings in the backend, I can edit. quickedit, and view. There is no option to trash. I am logged in as ...
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User Roles Not Sticking
I have added a custom user role of super_poster, basically they make 20 posts and once they hit $postlimit get auto-moved back down to contributer level, the moving down and post counting works ok, my ...
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Force modified contributor role to be re-approved on edit?
I gave the Contributor role edit_published_posts capability. Contributor submits a post, Admin publishes it. Now Contributor can edit it without approval. Is there a way to force it to be re-approved ...
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How can I disable the update notice for non-administrators?
As I already told, I'm setting up a Blog for a friend. Next to not being him an administrator but an editor that can make changes to theme options) I have an additional question.
I don't want him to ...
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How can I hide a category from Contributors in the edit/add new post screen?
I have a situation where I need to hide a specific category and it's children from users who are logged in as Contributors. I don't want them to see this category and it's children in the categories ...
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How to determine which capability to use?
For example, I want to use add_menu_page() function to add a menu item to the dashboard. To control which users will be able to access it, I'm supposed to use capabilities...
<?php add_menu_page( ...
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Associating an "author" with a custom taxonomy
I have a custom role, "Ministry Representative", which is able to log in and create and manage their own "Opportunities" and "Events", which is each a custom post type.
On the front end of the site, ...
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