Let’s take a look at Codex page for add_menu_page… Third param is: $capability (string) (Required) The capability required for this menu to be displayed to the user. And later on in Notes section: This function takes a ‘capability’ (see Roles and Capabilities) which will be used to determine whether or not a page is included … Read more
And the correct capability name is edit_posts. So the correct way of using current_user_can will be like following: if( empty( $post_id ) || !current_user_can( ‘edit_posts’ ) ) { return; } UPDATE: I have removed the wrong statement, but as the asker mentioned he would like to allow all roles of contributors and above to be … Read more
Without writing a custom plugin, I think your best bets would be to either: 1) use something like gravity forms and have the user start as subscriber, but then enter request to be a partner (using a GF form). GF can send notifications on forms to admin. Admin then upgrades the user’s role. 2) use … Read more
Capabilites not working [closed]
How to restrict access to specific pages on the back-end?
You are using the right WP function but unfortunately not passing the right parameter to make this work for you. current_user_can() accepts capabilities as well as roles as parameters. In the above you are using roles and not capabilities. You can use capabilities to make it work. For example, if you want the minimum privilege … Read more
Allow Block Editing By User Role
Maybe this was some conflict plugin/functions.php/theme/WP-version… I just duplicated the editor role with User Role Editor, removed all the delete_*_posts capabilities and the user cannot delete a post.
Share a draft looks like an easy plugin to do this. (Answering my own question after trying a few different things, other suggestions are still welcome.)
UPDATE – this is easy to do with the press permit plugin, I recommend it for any setup like this To get this working I had to do a couple of things: Default all pages/posts/categories ‘revisor’ (via Revisionary plugin) users to be restricted to ‘WP_Administrators’ Create a “User Group” for each department ie: ‘Conference Services … Read more