Yes, you can run WordPress with your own domain if you purchase hosting for it. WordPress has system of Roles (which can be further enhanced via plugins), you can let users register and allow to perform actions accordign to their role. Essentially yes. You copy WordPress files to server and initiate brief installation procedure. First … Read more
I suggest not to mess with the existing roles and capabilities in its default, it might help you some trouble when you will have a bunch of custom roles and capabilities in the future. To answer your question, I will have an example: I need new role/user group that has almost an Administrator but don’t … Read more
Okay here we go. It is a bug in WordPress itself. I have already shortly explained the issue in my question, so either have a look at it or check out the ticket linked above for more details. Until the issue is properly resolved I propose this dirty, dirty hack. It is based off the … Read more
you can assign capabilities directly to user using the class WP_user::add_cap() //to remove capability from user $user = new WP_User( $user_id ); $user->remove_cap( ‘can_email’); //to add capability to user $user = new WP_User( $user_id ); $user->add_cap( ‘can_email’); Source – https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/60433/17968
difference between Role and Meta capabilities That would be better to ask the compare Role with Capabilities, not just Meta capabilities, but as a simple answer: A Role defines a set of tasks a user assigned the role is allowed to perform. Capabilities are assigned to Roles difference between Meta and Primitive capabilities? Meta capabilities … Read more
I’m adding a second answer because my first approach got voted down and this one didn’t get proper attention. The idea is to create custom meta box that lists all the users and changes the author in save_post hook. This way you don’t mess with users capabilities and the author change happens when the posts … Read more
The only prerequisite for current_user_can() is an existing wp_get_current_user(). The latter is defined in pluggable.php, so you can use it after plugins_loaded. The _doing_it_wrong() call you are citing in your question is wrong for itself. My guess is that you took that from BuddyPress or bbPress. Both are running into a recursion if they don’t … Read more
When adding a role and capabilities you only need to run the code once since the roles and capabilities are saved to the database when using add_role or ->add_cap functions so just like Andy said you can use after_setup_theme for this kind of action but add some kind of check so it only runs once, … Read more