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create shortcode to list users with specific meta key value

Try this: function thebroker_agents() { global $current_user; $bmail = $current_user->user_email; $user_query = new WP_User_Query( array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘broker_email’, ‘meta_value’ => $bmail, ‘fields’ => ‘all’ ) ); $users = $user_query->get_results(); if (!empty($users)) { $results=”<ul>”; foreach ($users as $user){ $results=”<li>” . $user->display_name . ‘</li>’; } $results=”</ul>”; } else { $results=”No users found”; } wp_reset_postdata(); return $results; } … Read more

only a certain role has access to a cpt

I think you should add these new capabilities to the admin role too. Maybe this question would help you: Apply custom role capabilities to administrator (without plugin)

Customized role that allows users to “Submit for Review” instead of “Publish”

It really depends on whether you want to restrict these new roles to a particular post type. If you search for “workflow plugins” you can find several ready-made solutions. Some only let the new roles edit Pages, some allow them to edit any post type. I built a site that needed users who could only … Read more

Customizer – Allow user editor to change website title and tagline

Use a plugin like User Role Editor to add the ‘manage_options’ capability to the specific users or their role. Of course, this will allow them to manage all options. Or add PHP code like this: $wp_customize->get_setting( ‘title_tagline’ )->capability = ‘edit_others_posts’; https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

How to change user starting role in WordPress MultiSite?

I just follow these steps. And its done now. So if you want to change this, you’ve got a few options open to you: Go to “My Sites” –> “Network Admin” –> “Sites” –> “All Sites” and select “Edit” on the site that you want to set the default role for, then click “Settings”. Scroll … Read more

get_posts() not working when accessing with a custom user role

I have this problem as well, @tony-djukic. I have an administrator user that can see two posts of a custom post type. I have two subscriber users, each are able to only see the opposite post as the other. Here’s what I’m using to (apparently not) get all the posts: get_posts(array( ‘numberposts’ => -1, ‘post_type’ … Read more

wordpress editor role remove all but ‘menus’ in appearance menu

by default the editor role should not have access to plugins nor appearance menu. But maybe this roles is already customised in your installation? here is a list of editor default capabilities via functions.php you can remove everything in the appearance menu like so: $role_object = get_role( ‘editor’ ); $role_object->remove_cap( ‘edit_theme_options’ ); to remove access … Read more

change wp user status from wp_users table

User roles are not stored in wp_user table. They are stored as User Metadata. In wp_usermeta you can find two rows for every user: <prefix>capabilities (for example wp_capabilities) which contains serialized array of roles assigned to that user <prefix>user_level (for example wp_user_level) which contains level of given user. It’s important to remember, that keys for … Read more

access the plugins for each role in WordPress multisite

You cannot enable or disable plugins wholesale for specific user roles. A plugin’s ‘active-ness’ is not determined per-user. If you attempted to actually deactivate a plugin for a specific user role, then any time a user with that role logged in the plugin would be deactivated for every user that visited your site. A user … Read more

Restrict user to only one custom post type

You should be able to use roles to accomplish this. Check this tutorial here: https://3.7designs.co/blog/2014/08/restricting-access-to-custom-post-types-using-roles-in-wordpress/ I would have just put this as a comment but I guess I have to have more reputation on this site.

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