Posts Tagged ‘User Role’

How to block WordPress admin menu item

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Remove Admin Menu Item

Remove Admin Menu Item

Suppose you don’t wish your blog registered users see some menu items in WordPress admin back-end and it is not the user role capabilities management subject. That is no such capability exists which you can use. For example, if you need to block just user profile editor and nothing more. It can be useful if you wish to allow for the group of volunteers to use the only user budget for all of them to make some task at your blog. In this case it is important that no one from that users group can edit user password and other user profile details. So you should to block WordPress admin menu items and URLs related to the user profile editor execution.
I will show you how to make it in this post. We just add a little piece of code to your theme functions.php file. Let’s go.
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How to change WordPress MU User Role capabilities

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

User roles WordPress MU

User roles WordPress MU

From the post How to change WordPress User Role capabilities we know already how to make it for the ordinal not multi-user (MU) WordPress. It this post I will show you how to change the user role capabilities for the WordPress MU platform.
As you know WPMU lets to have multiple blogs under single WordPress installation. Blog list is stored in the wp_blogs database table. We will use blog ID attribute (blog_id field value) from this table. WPMU stores every blog data in the separate database tables set. Every blog data set differs with its blog ID in the name of the database tables, e.g. blog with ID=1 has wp_1_options table, blog with ID=2 has wp_2_options table, etc. So, to get the blog id=1 user roles capabilities from the database we can use this SQL query
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