OK, so what I ended up doing was removing all roles from users that were already setup. Now when they try to login and visit any of the pages on the website, they can’t. On the date I plan to go live, I will manually update their role to an allowed role – not an … Read more
Redirects and forced 404 are not that good for SEO, also might hurt user experience. I recommend that you take this approach (if you’re code savvy): <?php //Your page template //Check if user have permission if ( $permission ) { //All your page/post content here } //Else user have no permission -> show him something … Read more
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current_user_can() returning true for capability when the user and role do not have the capability
How to give access to the particular page in wordpress for specific username/email NOT roles [closed]
Update: as @Mark Kaplun pointed out. once you let a developer in there is no way to restrict him. If you don’t trust someone for good reason, than don’t let him in as there are more than enough privilege escalation exploits going around for him to make himself admin. So the solution I provided needs … Read more
I think you are doing everything wrong. You should just use 1 WP installation and ENABLE MULTI-SITE feature, and then you can open as many separate WP sites as you want! NO NEED TO INSTALL separate WORDPRESS installations.
I’ve actually just fixed it myself. The problem was as follows: I had changed the username of the admin account to ‘new-admin’. What I had missed when making this change was to update the ‘wp_sitemeta’ table in the database. meta_id 8 (site_admins) still had the old admin name set. Once I updated this, the plugins … Read more
From quick search of source for this error message, it is likely to be triggered by failed move_uploaded_file() function call, which is native PHP and not WordPress. Documentation says that it has some restrictions, related to safe_mode and open_basedir so that might be your issue. Since WP suppresses error output from this function with @ … Read more
Your problem seems to be related with a misconfiguration of the temporary directory in PHP which is used for uploads and need to be writable when the sever downloads a WordPress, plugin or theme package. If you can not configure it at PHP level, you can define it also in wp-config.php file: define(‘WP_TEMP_DIR’, ABSPATH . … Read more