Found the Bug. On the custom post type, the guttenberg editor was activated by : ‘show_in_rest’ => true. This was blocking the featured image to show up. Removing the guttenberg fix the problem. With the classic editor the featured image is showing on the edit page.
To allow your specific <new-page> element in the Classic Editor, you can add a filter so WP recognizes it as an allowed tag: // Step one – add to the allowed tags add_action(‘init’, function() { // Access the global allowed tags array global $allowedtags; // Add new-page as an allowed tag $allowedtags[‘new-page’] = array(); // … Read more
Usermeta key that stores the user’s role has a prefix in the name, the one set in the wp-config.php file. So meta_key will have the form {prefix}_capabilities and your query should look like global $wpdb; $wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( “UPDATE {$wpdb->usermeta} SET meta_value=”a:1:{s:6:\”editor\”;b:1;}” WHERE user_id = %d AND meta_key = ‘{$wpdb->prefix}capabilities'”, $user_id ) ); You do not … Read more
Yes, there are tons of plugins to realize this. In my opinion, the most reliable, streamlined and bugfree plugin is “members” by Justin Tadlock. As I’ve said, there are hundrets if not thousands of plugins which can do this. Just browse the plugin directory. On the other hand, building some custom redirects is not that … Read more
How to give custom roles the capability to edit one Menu instead of every Menu
Yes, this is all possible, but your question is a bit too broad for this site. 🙂 You may want to look into membership plugins which already have these types of capabilities, or you can build your own. If you choose to build your own, it’s easiest to create a custom post type for each … Read more
Do something like this in your front end code. <?php $user = wp_get_current_user(); $is_manager = in_array(‘manager’, $user->roles); ?> <?php if($is_manager): ?> <div>insert manager only content here</div> <?php else: ?> <div>insert employee content here</div> <?php endif ?>
This happens because on every page load you call remove_role As the docs note: When a role is removed, the users who have this role lose all rights on the site. Roles are not like post types, they exist in the database, and removing/adding a role updates the database. For that reason you shouldn’t add … Read more
Restrict user to edit only edit a certain menu
Hiding specific navigation menus from specific roles in admin panel