There’s a reason why add_role() has the $capabilities as 3rd parameter. First some insights on what happens, when you use the function. It calls WP_Roles->add_role() – the class method The method then does a check if the role already exists. If yes, it aborts. The next step is, that it adds the role to WP_Roles->roles[] … Read more
There’s a great article explaining how to hook into 2 filters for this at https://web.archive.org/web/20200216075253/http://www.sourcexpress.com/customize-wordpress-comment-notification-emails/ To send your notifications to a particular user and not the site admin, try this for a user with ID 123: function se_comment_moderation_recipients( $emails, $comment_id ) { $comment = get_comment( $comment_id ); $post = get_post( $comment->comment_post_ID ); $user = get_user_by( … Read more
The user_status column in the wp_users table is no longer used by WordPress core – it just hasn’t been removed. It may, or may not be used in the future. Best to leave it alone…
Hi @NetConstructor: I think this is what you need. Note that I didn’t include the full setup of your ‘website_owner’ role, just the addition of a new capability called ‘manage_administrators’. Also, I only attempted to remove the “Delete” link from any users that don’t have the ‘manage_administrators’ capability (which you’ll need to add to the … Read more
Working Example in Oct 2020, Working answer, I went to different answers none of them works now in new WordPress. function hide_categories_for_specific_user( $exclusions, $args ){ if ( ((defined( ‘REST_REQUEST’ ) && REST_REQUEST) or $GLOBALS[‘pagenow’] === ‘edit.php’ ) && !current_user_can( ‘manage_options’ ) ) { // IDs of terms to be excluded $exclude_array = array(“12″,”16″,”17”); // CHANGE … Read more
This code seems to work well for me (in functions.php): $user_id = get_current_user_id(); if ($user_id == 2) { add_filter( ‘parse_query’, ‘exclude_pages_from_admin’ ); } function exclude_pages_from_admin($query) { global $pagenow,$post_type; if (is_admin() && $pagenow==’edit.php’ && $post_type ==’page’) { $query->query_vars[‘post__not_in’] = array(‘123′,’234′,’345’); } }
I spent several hours of my Saturday looking for this error. I could not find a guide anywhere on the ‘net that described my eventual solution. Here is my solution. In the WP core, the “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” error is generated at the end of /wp-admin/includes/menu.php. A grep … Read more
Using Role editor or role scope you can set contributors to edit you custom post type but not publish so every change will be set as draft until approval, and to limit the creation of new posts of your custom post type you can use my plugin Bainternet Posts Creation Limits Update To force re … Read more
This first step to making this happen is add the capability to create_users to a given role. You do this be calling get_role, then using the add_cap method. This only needs to be done once. Here’s an example that does it on plugin activation. <?php register_activation_hook( __FILE__, ‘wpse42003_activation’ ); function wpse42003_activation() { foreach( array( ‘editor’, … Read more
Yes. WordPress has robust built-in Roles and Capabilities system desgined to do exactly what you are looking for. To add a new role, use the add_role() function in your theme’s functions.php or a plug-in like so: $role = add_role( ‘event_manager’, ‘Event Manager’, array( ‘read’ => true, // True allows that capability ) ); if ( … Read more