This is awesome material for a plugin. This answer will also include how to associate the user with the category (it’s hard to give you a solution without knowing that). Before we get started, the real meat is in step four (way at the bottom). Skip to that if you don’t need a way to … Read more
This is a built-in feature of WordPress. Create a page like you normally would. Then look at the Publish box in the upper-right corner for where it says “Visibility: Public.” Click “Public” and you’ll see some other options – “Private” and “Password Protected.” You want “Password Protected.” Check the appropriate box and enter the password … Read more
You can do this pretty easily with a shortcode. Hook into init and add the shortcode in your hooked function. <?php add_action(‘init’, ‘wpse57819_add_shortcode’); /** * Adds the shortcode * * @uses add_shortcode * @return null */ function wpse57819_add_shortcode() { add_shortcode(‘restricted’, ‘wpse57819_shortcode_cb’); } Then in your callback function, you can check to see if the user … Read more
With a some digging and learning, I managed to combine various help and create these 2 functions… // MAINTAINANCE MODE function site_maintenance() { if ( current_user_can(‘media’) || current_user_can(‘genpo’) ) { $logout_url = wp_login_url().’?mode=maintainance’; wp_logout(); wp_redirect( $logout_url, 302 ); } } add_action(‘get_header’, ‘site_maintenance’); // CUSTOM LOGIN MESSAGES function my_login_message() { if( $_GET[‘mode’] == ‘maintainance’ ){ $message=”<p … Read more
To let the current users only view his/her uploaded attachments, add the following code to your themes actions: add_filter( ‘posts_where’, ‘devplus_wpquery_where’ ); function devplus_wpquery_where( $where ){ global $current_user; if( is_user_logged_in() ){ // logged in user, but are we viewing the library? if( isset( $_POST[‘action’] ) && ( $_POST[‘action’] == ‘query-attachments’ ) ){ // here you … Read more
Try using this solution to give access to users to a specific page without them having to register an account. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_signon Let me know if it does not work or you need further help.
Basic auth is a very common username/password authentication method and it’s as strong as the username-password combination and the encryption of the protocol you’re using. The weakness of basic auth is that if you use it with plain http instead of https then the username and password is susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack. You can … Read more
I finally managed to get the required behaviour, I ended up using updated code from the example I showed in my question – and actually closer to the code suggested in the question I referenced in my question text! Here is the code that worked in the end: function allow_user_to_edit_cpt_filter($allcaps, $cap, $args) { global $current_user; … Read more
A recent comment brought my attention to this question, which I had posted. I had also posted another question regarding this topic, and had later solved it and posted an answer, here: JWT authentication with WP – Approach Copying that answer here, so that it helps someone who stumbles across this implementation: The endpoint coded … Read more
To add a field to the profile/user edit page you need to use the edit_user_profile hook and show_user_profile hook so: add_action( ‘show_user_profile’, ‘my_extra_user_fields’ ); add_action( ‘edit_user_profile’, ‘my_extra_user_fields’ ); function my_extra_user_fields( $user ) { ?> <h3>User avatar</h3> <table class=”form-table”> <tr> <th><label for=”user_avatar”>User avatar</label></th> <td> <input id=”user_avatar” name=”user_avatar” type=”text” value=” <?php $user_avatar = get_the_author_meta( ‘user_avatar’, $user->ID ); … Read more