It would appear this plugin was written by a developer who was unaware of roles and capabilities. Luckily the author passes their post type arguments through a filter named sp_wp_carousel_post_type_args, giving you the opportunity to override and add options, such as replacing the show_ui value and adding a capability array.
Opening a file of the theme from outside
How to make file not open to public but javascript file under WordPress folder can load it
Can you check the permissions of the wp-content and wp-content/themes folders? They should be 755 (owner=write, group=read, public=read). If, for some reason, the user on your instance that runs the webserver (probably www or www-data) is not the owner of that directory but in the group that owns that directory it should be 775 (owner=write, … Read more
You can visit – How to assign specific users the capability to edit specific pages / posts / custom post types OR First of all: grant full access to projects post type (Example). At the user profile add allowed posts’ id. Then use the below filter to restrict access if post id isn’t allowed. function … Read more
wp-content should be 755, otherwise WordPress will think it has global write access, and won’t fallback to the FTP filesystem method if it doesn’t. Might be worth checking if PHP is running in safe mode – this can also be the troublemaker (though I’m aware WordPress can still upgrade with it on).
It’s stupid, but you can’t. (Not without editing core, anyway.) Right at the top of the nav-menus.php source code is an edit_theme_options check that’s not filterable. http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.4.1/wp-admin/nav-menus.php If you’re not concerned about your editors trying anything too shady, you could simply hide the menu items using a plugin like Adminimize or Admin Menu Editor. Of … Read more
Please review the information here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities Specifically, the following: Editor – somebody who can publish and manage posts including the posts of other users. An Editor is exactly that – someone who can edit what other people are doing. Ensure that the Users who you want to have Editor rights are assigned as Editors in … Read more
Your local site is on a Mac, which uses a different users and groups system than a production (linux) environment. I would recommend that you change the permissions to what they should be on the local dev environment to what they should be before you upload them to a production/QA environment. Please refer to this … Read more
Ok, I found the permission read private posts so I revoked that privilege to the reader group and marked the articles I didn’t want them to see as private. Doing any sort of permissions in WordPress feels kind of hacky, but this is a much better solution than modifying source code.