I had same issue a month ago. As you I tried to use Co-Author Plus, but with the Plugin I haven’t reached my goal. So , at the end, I thought that they are not real user and I make them like a custom taxonomy and I solved any problem
The template_include hook allows you to change which template file is going to be used. In it, you can conditionally check if it’s an author page requested, then use get_query_var() to get the requested author. You then check the authors role and see if it’s what you don’t want, and use a different template if … Read more
It sounds like you want to add all the admin capabilities to a role except a few key capabilities that you have in mind. What you could do is get the administrator role and do a key diff on capabilities you do not want. We have to use array_diff_key() because capabilities are keyed by name: … Read more
You can update the post classes depending on user role to include an additional selector which add your custom styling i.e function add_contributor_class_to_single_post( $classes ) { if ( is_single() ) { $post_id = get_queried_object_id(); $author_ID = get_post_field( ‘post_author’, $post_id ); $author_data = get_userdata( $author_ID ); if (in_array( ‘contributor’, $author_data->roles)) { // add post class array_push( … Read more
You might want to use WP_User::set_role( ‘contributor’ ) instead. It unsets all current roles and sets the new one (the argument) too. So the above would be if ($count_posts >= $postlimit) { $current_user->set_role( ‘contributor’ ); }
I just exported the live database, replaced all occurences of the live siteurl with the local one, and imported on my dev machine. Finding/replacing with a text editor breaks serialized data; you must change values with MySQL queries in phpmyadmin: UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://www.olddomain.com/’, ‘http://www.newdomain.com/’) WHERE option_name=”home” OR option_name=”siteurl”; UPDATE wp_posts SET … Read more
The admin_menu action will hide the ACF menu, in this example for not-admins. And admin_head will block the access if the URL is accessed directly. E.g.: http://example.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=acf and http://example.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=acf&page=acf-settings add_action( ‘admin_menu’, ‘wpse_59032_remove_acf_menu’, 9999 ); add_action( ‘admin_head-edit.php’, ‘wpse_59032_block_acf_screens’ ); add_action( ‘admin_head-custom-fields_page_acf-settings’, ‘wpse_59032_block_acf_screens’ ); function wpse_59032_remove_acf_menu() { /* if not our allowed users, hide menu */ if … Read more
The ability to set comment status is tied to the “edit_comment” capability, which is a meta-capability in WordPress. It maps to the “edit_post” capability, which is another meta-capability that varies depending on whether a post is published or not. In the end, if a post is published, then edit_comment ends up mapping to “edit_published_posts” for … Read more
Do not set header in a template file. Those are part of the HTTP request itself. About your problem: Add a template (whatever file you need – see “Template Hierarchy”). On top of it you include the default stuff like get_header(); and so on. For the restricted part, you use the following: if ( current_user_can( … Read more
The core has functions like current_user_can to check for an capability of a role or check the role directly. The follow example extend your source for this check so that the function not (!) run, if the current user haven’t the rights, the capability of his role. add_filter(‘request’, function( $vars ) { // Check the … Read more