The lack of mutiple roles has irritated me for a long time since the underlying WP_User class supports multiple roles. I have even considered looking for an alternative software solution. @lpryor – after reading your post, I was re-motivated to implement it myself. It took a surprisingly short number of lines to do although I … Read more
If you have the unfiltered_html capability then you can use JS. Admins and editors have this capability by default. Personally I use a plugin for fine control of my users’ capabilities, but you can make this change easily in code: $role = get_role( ‘administrator’ ); $role->remove_cap( ‘unfiltered_html’ ); $role = get_role( ‘editor’ ); $role->remove_cap( ‘unfiltered_html’ … Read more
It didn’t say in the API docs on the Yoast SEO plugin site what the ID was and I don’t have a copy of Yoast at installed at disposal, but according to yoas-plugin-dir/admin/class-metabox.php line 144, the meta_box registered is; add_meta_box( ‘wpseo_meta’, …etc ); … Which is hooked onto add_meta_boxes hook on line 32 of the … Read more
I’m adding a second answer because my first approach got voted down and this one didn’t get proper attention. The idea is to create custom meta box that lists all the users and changes the author in save_post hook. This way you don’t mess with users capabilities and the author change happens when the posts … Read more
It’s hard to troubleshoot the above code because it’s only a part of the actual code, but here’s the minimum plugin needed to register a custom post type (called Example) and a custom role (Blog Manager) that has access to the Example custom post type. This can be used as part of a theme’s functions.php … Read more
The only prerequisite for current_user_can() is an existing wp_get_current_user(). The latter is defined in pluggable.php, so you can use it after plugins_loaded. The _doing_it_wrong() call you are citing in your question is wrong for itself. My guess is that you took that from BuddyPress or bbPress. Both are running into a recursion if they don’t … Read more
The wp_capabilities saves the value as serilized array, you can try it in your php or for this example here: http://blog.tanist.co.uk/files/unserialize/. The Code: a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;} Is: Array ( [administrator] => 1 ) Meaning the user is an administrator. You can add new roles to the database by running the function add_role, and only run it once!
Your custom post type looks like it’s set up properly. It works on my test install. Try this instead of whatever add_role and add_cap code you’re currently using. (For testing purposes only. Don’t use it in production code, for reasons outlined below.) It’s working for me: function prefix_set_up_supplier_role(){ remove_role( ‘supplier’ ); add_role( ‘supplier’, ‘Supplier’, array( … Read more
The user roles and capabilities are saved in the database so once you have you have used add_role() its saved and then next load WordPress will know that role just like the built in roles. Now if you look at the function add_role() more specifically at line 141 you will see that it only saves … Read more
When adding a role and capabilities you only need to run the code once since the roles and capabilities are saved to the database when using add_role or ->add_cap functions so just like Andy said you can use after_setup_theme for this kind of action but add some kind of check so it only runs once, … Read more