This effectively removes metaboxes IF the current user is a contributor. This does not remove any admin column data ( like SEO Description and such when viewing pages ). You need to define which post types to run it on in the $post_types array which will then loop through and target specifically the aiosp metabox … Read more
When you use chrome, you can open an incognito tab and view the website without being logged in (or logged in as another user) while staying logged in in your other ‘non-incognito’ tab. With firefox: open a private window (using private browsing) With internet explorer: Use InPrivate-navigation
Change the user role based on login or theme switch
There is a way to do this code. You can hire a dev or check out this plug in: https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-access-manager/ It looks to have the features you need. If you are interested in diving into the backend, the place to get started is by building custom page templates. Here is some good resources on page … Read more
There is nothing else required, it (should) work just fine with the code you posted. I’ve given this a quick test to confirm it is working and it does. So I’m assuming there is another problem somewhere.
in the basic configuration the user role contributor and subscriber do not have the capability upload_files. The user role author has this capability. The capability upload_files gives the user the panels “Media” and “Media > Add New”. If you want another role to grant this capability, you can use the function add_cap(). Since such changes … Read more
That depends on whether your plugin is written in a procedural or object oriented style. register_activation_hook is what you want. https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_activation_hook How exactly you incorporate it depends on your plugin coding style. Examples listed in the Codex show multiple approaches. Procedural example: If you have a function called myplugin_activate() in the main plugin file at … Read more
The plugin Revisionary allow you to review post/page revisions before they go live. You can grab it for free here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/revisionary/
The third argument to add_menu_page() is $capability. add_menu_page( $page_title, $menu_title, $capability, $menu_slug, $function, $icon_url, $position ); That governs who can see the page. You’ve registered yours as “administrator”, which is a user role. Presumably your vendors are not of that role. To fix this, you will need to change that argument to a capability (preferably … Read more
This ended up being a pretty significant problem with the function I hooked into editable_roles. The Goal: Allow Plugin Operators to add new Managers and New Employees Allow Plugin Managers to add new Employees The Problem: New users added by an Operator and/or a Manager were being saved with no role Operators/Managers could not modify … Read more