Custom Post Types will be much easier to set up, and you won’t have to code your own solution to check in the Editor whether the current user has permission to create a new page or edit something. You can set up the CPT archives at whatever URL you like. So, in your example, you … Read more
You’ll want to use get_user_by(), which will return a WP_USER object which contains roles and capabilities. More info here. $user = get_user_by( ‘login’, ‘username’); $roles = $user->roles // this will contain an array of the roles the user is in
You can display user posts using user’s ID. This code might provide a quick sample on how to do it (I have not tested the code). $user_id = $_GET[‘author_id’]; //The Query query_posts(“author={$user_id}”); //The Loop if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); the_title(); echo “<br>”; endwhile; else: echo “No Posts!”; endif; //Reset … Read more
My advice is to read the Codex regarding user roles and capabilities. Contributors cannot publish posts. Edit: I am able to successfully add new users with the ‘contributor’ role, and select them from the dropdown as the author of a post, which is what I now realize you’re having issues with. So something is definitely … Read more
Use add_role with any array of capabilities. Example: add_role( ‘custom_role’, ‘Custom Role’, array( ‘read’ => true ) );
Turns out it’s a real bad idea to map your own meta capabilities. To solve this problem I ended up going through the steps you would with a map_meta_cap function with TWO plugins. Use [Map Cap] to automatically map the meta capabilities of my new custom post type to my specific user roles. Then had … Read more
A new capability has to be explicitly added to either a role or a user. In your case if you want all administrators to have ‘cap’ capability you will add it to ‘administrator’ role: $role = get_role( ‘administrator’ ); $role->add_cap( ‘cap’ ); If you want a specific administrator only to have ‘cap’ capability then you … Read more
Use get_users() function. Reference function notify_editors( $post_id ) { $post = get_post( $post_id ); // Get all editors $editors = get_users( [ ‘role__in’ => [ ‘editor’] ] ); foreach ( $editors as $editor ) { // Setup email $subject = “Post Published: ” . $post->post_title; $message=” Hi ” . $editor->display_name . ‘, Your post, “‘ … Read more
count_users() should give you an array of all the required user counts. You can use it like this. $user_counts = count_users(); $authors = $user_counts[‘avail_roles’][‘author’]; //Get the author count $subscribers = $user_counts[‘avail_roles’][‘subscriber’]; //Get the subscriber count echo $authors. ‘ Authors so far’; echo $subscribers. ‘ Subscribers so far’;
You can do it by executing simple SQL query: UPDATE wp_usermeta SET meta_value=”a:1:{s:11:”contributor”;b:1;}” WHERE meta_key = ‘wp_capabilities’ AND meta_value=”a:1:{s:10:”subscriber”;b:1;}” This query will updated all subscribers to be contributors.