User Role Editor Pro version 4.23 was published at February, 7th, 2016.
Author: Vladimir
WooCommerce products – restrict view by category
How to limit a list of WooCommerce product available to the site visitors by a WooCommerce category. Example: You need Customers to visit the shop and see all categories and products except the category XYZ. Only users assigned role ABC can see category XYZ or its products. Read more WooCommerce products – restrict view by category
View and Edit restrictions – complex example
Imagine an organization with a few departments. Each worker should be capable to read the posts of its own department plus the posts general for all organization. Some workers of each department should be capable to create/edit posts of their own department only. Guests (not logged-in visitors) should view only general posts and should not view restricted posts related to the departments.
Such task difficult for the “just-from-the-box” WordPress may be resolved easy with User Role Editor Pro content view and edit restrictions add-ons configured together. Read more View and Edit restrictions – complex example
Prohibit authors attachments deletion
Suppose you wish to prohibit WordPress attachments deletion for your authors. WordPress manages access to the Media Library items (attachments) using ‘posts’ capabilities set. Yes, the key capability to access the ‘Media Library’ is ‘upload_files’, but in order to edit uploaded image attributes a user needs ‘edit_posts’ capability, in order to delete uploaded video a user needs ‘delete_posts’ capability, etc. So there is no way to prohibit attachments deletion for users who may (and should) delete posts with WordPress default Media Library permissions model.
Pro version of User Role Editor offers a workaround – ‘Force custom post types to use their own capabilities’ option: Read more Prohibit authors attachments deletion
Role with access to the Smart Slider 3 plugin
This post shows how to provide access to the WordPress plugin created menu using User Role Editor. An example uses Smart Slider 3 WordPress plugin. Smart Slider creates its own user capabilities set: Read more Role with access to the Smart Slider 3 plugin
