WordPress allows to have “No role for this site” users – users without any role. How to select them all to update access rights? WordPress offers separate views in the “Users” list for the existing roles only. There is no such role “None”, thus there is no separate view for users without role. Yes, it is possible to turn on checkbox near needed user row at the “Users” list and then use bulk action “Change role to…”. It is simple and quite enough in case you have less then 25 users to see them all at the same page. But what to do, if you have more than 1000 users? It becomes time consuming to go manually through every page of huge users list and find users without role to change their rights. Read more No role for this site – return users to life
Allow access to WordPress Appearance menu items
How to allow access for selected role to the selected menu items of the WordPress Appearance menu? The most menu items under “Appearance” menu at WordPress administrator back-end use the same “edit_theme_options” user capability to check if current user has access to it (read more…). Thus if user has access to the “Widgets” menu, he has access to the rest menu items: “Themes”, “Customize”, “Menu”, “Header”, “Background”. What to do if you wish to allow some role(s) change “Widgets”, “Menus” but prohibit access to other “Appearance” menu items? Read more Allow access to WordPress Appearance menu items
Restrict access to WordPress widgets area for role
Is it possible to restrict access to WordPress widgets area for selected role? “Widgets” menu item is located under “Appearance” menu at WordPress administrator back-end. WordPress uses the same “edit_theme_options” user capability to manage access to it as for the rest items of “Appearance” submenu (read more…). Thus if user has access to the “Widgets” menu, he has access to the rest menu items: “Themes”, “Customize”, “Menu”, “Header”, “Background”. What to do if you wish to allow some user change themes, customize their appearance, edit menu, but do not allow him access to the “Widgets” menu item? Read more Restrict access to WordPress widgets area for role
Hide/disable WordPress user profile fields
In some cases you may not wish that blog registered users edit some part of theirs user profile. Let’s see how we can achieve this purpose.
1) In case you decide to prohibit user change his password use special WordPress filter show_password_fields: Read more Hide/disable WordPress user profile fields
User Role Editor Pro version 4.10
User Role Editor Pro version 4.10 was published at February, 15th, 2014. The updates include:
- Security enhancement: ‘__()’ and ‘_e()’ WordPress text translation functions were replaced with more secure ‘esc_html__()’ and ‘esc_html_e()’.
- It is possible to restrict access to the post or page content view for selected roles. Activate the option at plugin “Settings” page and use new “Content View Restrictions” metabox at post/page editor to setup content view access restrictions. Read more…
- Gravity Forms access management module was updated for compatibility with Gravity Forms version 1.8.3. If you need compatibility with earlier Gravity Forms versions, e.g. 1.7.9, use User Role Editor version 4.9.
