Dynamic content in template

This sounds like page caching. Page caching is a good thing, it keeps your site fast. The downside is that any personalized data is not accurate, which is why the clock is not updated. It looks like perhaps WPEngine doesn’t give you control over page caching – https://wpengine.com/blog/no-caching-plugins/ You may need to speak to them … Read more

custom user role wordpress – grant guest access to edit.php without insert/update/delete

After you’ve created the new role, you need to add the capability to it using add_cap. Check here for more info: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_cap I think that for your particular case, you could replicate an Author but then remove certain capabilities using remove_cap https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_cap