The Members plugin is a user, role, and content management plugin. Its purpose is to make WordPress a more powerful CMS by giving you fine-grain control over the users of your site.
I created this plugin because I wasn’t satisfied with the current user, role, and permissions plugins available. Yes, some of them are good, but nothing fit what I had in mind perfectly. Some offered few features. Some worked completely outside of the WordPress role and capability system. Others lacked an appropriate license.
This plugin is still a long way away from my goals, but it’ll get there eventually.
What does the plugin do?
Members has what I call “components.” Instead of normal plugin settings, you get a components-selection page that allows you to choose only the features that you want to use.
The current components are (more will come in future versions):
- Edit Roles: Edit your user roles and their capabilities.
- New Roles: Create new roles for use on your site.
- Content Permissions: Adds a meta box on your write post/page editor that allows you to restrict content to specific roles.
- Widgets: Adds a login form widget and user-listing widget that you can use in any widget area on your site.
- Shortcodes: Creates shortcodes that you can use to restrict or allow access to certain parts of your posts and pages (or any other shortcode-capable area).
- Template Tags: New functions for use within your WordPress theme for various things.
- Private Blog: Allows you to create a private blog that can only be accessed by users that are logged in (redirects them to the login page).
Screenshots of the plugin
I’ve uploaded a few screenshots so you can see what part of the plugin looks like:
Ideas for future versions
Version 0.1 has been all about role and capability management, but that’s just the beginning. Version 0.2 will be about user management.
But, it’s not all about my ideas. I’ll be working through many of the ideas presented in my original post on this plugin. I’m also open to any new ideas you might have.
Download the plugin
Before using this plugin, please read the readme.html file included in the plugin download. It will guide you through everything you need to know about using it.
- Version: 0.1
- Requires: WordPress 2.8+
- Support: Support forums
- Download (from WP.org)
Please don’t use my contact page or the comments section below to ask support questions. Use my support forums at Theme Hybrid, which is where I handle all support questions for my WordPress projects.
Very good job!
Thank you for this plugin very nice and easy to use!
This is perfect! It’s much simpler to use than the other solutions out there right now. Thank you so much for putting the time to make this =D
Dan
I just installed this plug in and when I go to activate it, I am getting a fatal error message. Any thoughts on how to fix?
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Exiting, will have to get a site to run this for a demo!!
Valentin — Thanks. Hearing you say it’s “easy to use” is the type of thing I like to hear. That’s been my number one goal with this plugin.
Larry Someone — You’re welcome. I’m glad you like it. I have loads of plans on new features and such in the future too.
Jason — Follow the instructions and make sure you meet the minimum requirements. It’ll work at that point.
The Frosty — Let me know how you like it once you get it running.
As always, you hit it out of the park, Tadlock. Nice work man. I’ve found gaps in other simply plugins as well, glad to finally have a solid tool in place.
One thought that occurred to me is that the plug-in seems quite close to being able to handle “premium memberships”, or those that require a monthly/yearly fee or access to certain content. Is this something you have considered for future builds?
Again, killer work man..you keep puttin’ it out.
…other **similar** plugins…
…fee **for** access…
Damn typos!
I am really looking forward to this plugin, it sounds like it really fills a few holes in Wordpress. Awesome initiative, and consider me a future user.
I wanted to note one thing though, before you spend too much time on the role management. Perhaps this is a non-issue, but the other day I managed to listen through a podcast interview with Mark Jaquith on the future of Wordpress (link: http://www2.webmasterradio.fm/press-this/2009/09/01/future-of-wordpress/). He mentioned that fewer than 5 percent use the user roles as they are implemented now, and that:
* he wants to rework (or refactor, I think the term is) that entire system
* eventually merge WPMU with WP
So in my ears that’s certainly not a reason not to build your plugin, but it’s good to keep in mind while building it.
Cody Redmon — Handling paid memberships and subscriptions is definitely on the to-do list. I’m not familiar with working within those systems (e.g., PayPal, Google Checkout), but I’m hoping I can bring someone on in the future that’ll be able to put together a component to handle it. If nothing else, I might just have to learn how to do it myself.
I actually mentioned this back last September in my post Wanted: WordPress membership plugin. It’s something I’ve always had ideas about but haven’t had the time to put together.
Right now, it’s all about building the foundation for the entire system. This will make it easier for someone else to step in and code a payment system without having to deal with everything else.
Joen — Yep, I think the changes have been mentioned to me somewhere around 1,000 times.
From what I can tell, the changes will make my job much easier. I’m keeping an eye out though, and the plugin will adapt to WordPress when needed. I’ll definitely be on top of its development because I need this plugin for about five different sites.
Nice plugin you got there! I will try using this one on one of my blogs. I think this one’s the thing that would really help me. I just bookmarked your blog also, hoping for more useful stuff and updates soon. Keep them posting!
Content Permissions: Adds a meta box on your write post/page editor that allows you to restrict content to specific roles.
i use custom fields outside my post content editor and with your plugin my custom fields aren’t able to be restricted. any chance in having the whole loop restricted and not just the content…
Good job, good work, good god you do like giving stuff for free!
This is great stuff you have done here! I actually have a project down the line were I’ll need to integrate amember with WP and the private blog functionality is perfect!
Not sure how to contribute, but I’ll write a small post about your Members plugin.
Can’t wait to see how this will develop!
hi !
I’m looking for a plugin that allows me to restrict each of my authors to post only in a specific category, does it make it possible?
For instance, author A needs to only post in Category 1. Author B needs to only post in Category 2. Author C can post in category A and 2.
Possible?
Thank you,
A.
its good ! is it possible to enable o disable permission to manage widgets ?
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Great plugin..!! Thanks..
@Justin and Cody Redmon – I want to add the disclaimer that I hope you never start charging more than our club fees for you work, but perhaps this could be something that someone could do for a fee. It would seem sensible that if you wanted to exclusively make money with a plugin that you might have to pay for the solution. GPL of course!
Congratulations and thanks. I need this. I’m installed this on a multi-user site immediately.
minor point:
Your readme is excellent and concise. I installed the plugin through WP > Plugins > Add New. I do not see the read me available linked from this article or in WP. It’s easy to download and unpack or navigate to the plugin by ftp. But, probably, you want to streamline access to the read me in the interest of streamlining.
Monica — Let me know how the plugin works out for you on your blog.
CG — Now, I want you to back up and think about what you wrote for a minute — seriously think about it.
“Custom fields.”
It’s impossible for the plugin to know what you want to do with your custom fields. They are custom after all. I don’t want my custom fields restricted. You do. The plugin can’t make sweeping generalizations about how people want to use something that’s custom.
Cristian — Free stuff is always great, right?
Honestly, I need the plugin for myself, so I might as well share it with everyone else.
Alexandre P — Nope, this plugin doesn’t do that.
Abu Aufa — You’re welcome. I’m glad you like it.
rgregory — I definitely see your point and agree completely. But, since I’ll be making money off of the plugin in other ways (if the development goes through), I’m fine with giving away that type of functionality for free.
Don Spark — Nah, not really. I’m more interested in having users that can figure out how to open a
readme.htmlfile. I have a system and like sticking to it. Really, I just don’t want to have to be making sure more than one thing is kept updated (I’m a little lazy sometimes).[...] can probably list a million reasons I think my recent Members plugin is neat. Not only have I deployed it on about five of my own blogs in the last few days, I’ve [...]
Great plugin. I tried to use in my blog…. but after activation .. not works fine because some conflict problems with other plugins
. I hate wp plugin conflicts!
custom fields are associated with a particular post… now if that post was to be excluded from certain groups, i’d also want the custom fields associated with that post excluded as well
Julian — If your other plugins were coded using WordPress coding standards, I doubt there’d be any type of conflict.
CG — That’s my point exactly — we disagree on this. I don’t want my custom fields hidden with the content permissions component. Niether of us is wrong or right for wanting opposite things. The entire point is that custom fields are “custom.” Hence the name of custom fields. It’s up to you to decide what to do with your own custom fields.
Besides, it’s not the post that is restricted. It’s the post content that is.
couldn’t we have the option?
Pete — “Option” to what?
what I want compared to what you want re custom fields being hidden… have an option tick box?
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Thanks Justin. Can you add an custom individual page for Register in this plugin ?
When can I start translating this WordPress E X T E N S I O N?
Thanks Justin! This extension is clean, fresh, intelligent, etc. I love it, just like I love Theme Hybrid Framework and all your plugins. You tend to make exactly what I need when I need it. It’s kind of scary…
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Justin,
I guess by the comments you are seeing that you have come upon a much needed plug-in. Having come from a PN background, I truly missed a great user management system. I am looking forward to using “members” and your future development of it. Congratulations on a job well done.
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“Besides, it’s not the post that is restricted. It’s the post content that is.”
What’s the advantage in just restricting the write panel’s content and nothing else associated with the post compared to including custom fields that are WITHIN the loop. I see nowadays as WP is being used as a CMS posts are using custom fields more and more as a way to make it easier for users to submit their content in a more structured way… so in that sense it makes sense to me to include the whole loop as what should be restricted, not just the content.
What does everyone else think about this?
@ CG :
I think you could do this with the template tags available in the Members plugin. So both methods are possible. Even better!
Pete — See my replies to CG.
Julian — Huh?
Jan Egbert — You can start translating it anytime you want. I have missed a few strings, but I’ll be updating those in version 0.1.1. For the most part, the plugin is localized.
JimHadfield — Thanks. I’ve been needing better user management myself, which is why this plugin was created.
CG — There’s neither an advantage nor disadvantage. It’s just different. What might be best for you might not be best for another user. If you want to restrict an entire post, you can code that.
There’s a few things to keep in mind:
* This plugin cannot make generalizations about what should and shouldn’t be restricted. Filtering
the_contentandthe_excerptis about as far as the content permissions component will go.* A plugin cannot know what you want to do with your custom fields.
* A plugin cannot know exactly what’s within The Loop as all themes are different. Therefore, it cannot restrict everything within The Loop (nor should it make that type of generalization about what users want).
Just Tadlock – I translated the plugin. How do i get the translation to work? I put it in the members folder, didn’t work. I put it in a new folder called languages. Didn’t work.
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Great tool. Well written and very functional. Wondering if there is a thought on adding the ability to provide multiple groups for users. Perhaps primary & secondary. Would be a really neat option.
The main reason we’re looking at it, is based on our desire to group users and send emails to those groups, but some site members could be members of multiple groups.
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Jan Egbert — I’ve updated the translation issues in version 0.1.1 and added a
/languagesfolder.Wes Linda — The WordPress 2.8 branch currently supports multiple roles per user, but this is being dropped in 2.9. So, there wasn’t much use in adding in that type of functionality. As for the future, you probably won’t see groups. I like to work within the realm of what WordPress already provides. This plugin is basically just a user interface for things in WordPress that exist, allowing end users to have access to things that we devs already use.
You’ll just have to play around with your custom setup to figure out what’s best for you. Maybe think about it from a capability perspective rather than a role perspective.
Justin – Thanks for the quick reply. Understand your point, just have a specific need and like to work within the realm of plugins so that updates / upgrades can go as smoothly as possible. Never know the answer to a question till we ask. Thanks again.
Nice plugin,
Though it needs extra features on widget
- a link to “Register”,
- a link to “Logout” after logging in
- a link to go to “Profile” after logging in (Same way as AJAX Login Widget++ does)
I like this plugin better,
though I will wait till the next updates to use it.
Kiran
The best thing about MovableType is that they have user profiles, favoriting(recommending) and following functionality built-in.
Wordpress has plugins for each of these components but those do not work together. Please extend the functionality of your plugin so that wordpress could become a social blogging application.
Thanks.
I need to hide from user of certain roles posts and pages other than their own in the edit posts and edit pages admin areas.
I would like to and I think it’s possible to do this by simply adding them a “capability” which in this case would actually be a restriction.
After searching a bit i found a plugin that did just that, but it applies this to all user levels except admin. So I changed the code a bit.
This is about as far as I could go (I’m not much of a programmer – I’m a DIY-er as you gracefully previously described my kind):
The code above is inspired and derived from http://code.mincus.com/41/manage-your-posts-only-in-wordpress/ plugin created by mincus code.
There is an error in my code above: the esc_url needs to be replacesd with strpos in both instances.
The code from my previous comment hides posts and pages of other authors throughout the entire site, not just in wp-admin/edit.php and wp-admin/edit-pages.php.
Sorry for messing up.
Hey Justin, great work man. I was messing around and noticed that the content permissions replaces content with “you do not have permission…” but still displays the title. Is there a way to completely remove the entire post (title, post content, etc) from the loop when unregistered viewers are viewing the site. As if the post never existed?
Thanks a bunch.
Rich
Kiran — I’ll consider that for a future release, but why not just add the links now?
Jack — I’m not a big fan of adding stuff to core, especially features that not everyone needs. That’s where plugins come in. This plugin is just at version 0.1, so I imagine there’ll be tons of new features in the future.
Andrei Gheorghiu — I’m looking over some ideas about controlling permissions in the backend, but it’ll be a while before anything’s implemented.
Rich Staats — Yes, that’s definitely something that’s feasible with this plugin. It’ll require a little theme editing, but it’s possible.
by theme customization were you referring to adding a conditional with one of your template tags, like:
//run the loop allowing all content
This is awesome. I was looking through Role Scoper, Capabilities Manager, and Role Manager to get what I wanted. Not sure Members yet has all I wanted from Role Scoper, but it’s headed there.
What’s great is that I’m trying to keep the number of plugin authors I rely on to a minimum. Helps with learning code, debugging, etc. Given that I’m using Hybrid, I’m pretty sure, your plugins will be compatible for some time. That’s very reassuring.
Thanks again.
I’m looking to use something like Flutter or More Fields to create custom write panels for authors. I’d like to restrict which write panel they see using something like Members. Is this functionality present now or even planned? Been looking at Role Scoper and Post Control CMS as alternative means.
designOdyssey — This plugin will likely be under development and compatible far into the future. I personally need it on other websites I run, so it’s in my best interest to make sure it’s working.
As for Flutter and More Fields, that’s up to your plugin authors. Feel free to point them to this article I wrote on custom capabilities in plugins.
“Rich Staats — Yes, that’s definitely something that’s feasible with this plugin. It’ll require a little theme editing, but it’s possible.”
Isn’t that what I was saying?
CG — No, that’s what I’ve been saying for several posts now.
Whatever… I suspect there’s a lot of users out there that’d like to see more than just the ‘content’ hidden. Maybe something more like this…
CG — Please don’t get an attitude when I’ve been relentlessly trying to explain a concept to you. If you don’t understand, I’ll try to explain it again, but saying things like “whatever” simply darken the mood around here and accomplish absolutely nothing.
Also, please stop linking to other plugins. If there’s something else you like, feel free to use it. This is not the place for linking to and discussing other people’s plugins.
Sorry, I was just trying to help out designOdyssey, and the other link was to show to you what I’d like with respect to managing content on a per role basis… they were both on topic but if you don’t want urls that’s fine.
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Thank you Justin. Several plugin name “Role manager” plugin to customize roles but it creator seems to have stopped development and updates. Could I replace “role manager” plugin with “members” plugin? Can I transfer data from “role manager” to “members” plugin?
Hi Justin great plugin i wonder if it would be easy/possible to integrate this with a payment module? i am working on a charity website that needs a members area where people pay a small donation to see the member’s content. your plugin seems like an ideal solution as i want to help keep their costs down.
“pay a small donation to see the member’s content”
There’s a plugin available that allows ‘pay per view’… but modesty forbids me from putting the url here
In any case it’d be a nice feature
Haven’t found the time to try things out yet, but this looks like VERY helpfull plugin. Could it also be used to give a certain role the restriction to only post in certain categories?
Thanks in advance!
And again I have been posting on older pages, third try now
. I am using this plugin now for some importship plugin (from the fabrication side). Where every importer in various countries can keep their own info up to date. Also their dealers can keep their info up to date.
So this plugin really comes to handy, though some work is still neccesarry for my tasks
.
One being able to have users set an country (dropdown, or map even) when registering their account.
Two, being able to have users request dealer or import status/role, so they are able to update their information.
Would really like have an brainrush session with you regarding some functionality.
Thank God that you have made this plugin! It rocks and the development is exactly what I have been looking for. Other plugins have been to convoluted for me, but this is perfect!
Quick question: how easy is it to have the pages/posts that are “restricted” to disappear from wp_list_pages etc. ? Possibly have that as a component option so they are automatically hidden and unhidden based on login?
Thanks again for your development!
thanks a lot for the plugin, that’s exactly what I wanted to have, and i also pretty sure that your plugins will be compatible for more time than others.. That’s very important for me!
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Justin thanks a lot for the plugin. I have activated the “Private Blog” component. Although the documentation said that: “Note that feeds are not currently blocked with this component, but it’s likely they will be later with an introduction of a feeds component.” I notice that feeds aren’t available either by a feedreader (I am using FreadReader3 which shows the message “Error adding feed:;No RSS URLs found!” ), or using a browser. Not that when deactivate the plugin feeds are available on the same address. I don’t want to have my feed public but is this the plugin’s expected behavior?
Thanks in advance.
I need to implement some kind of paid subscription before Christmas – have you got as far as documenting how components can/should be added? I’ll have a look at the source, but if you have a preferred way of doing them please do get in touch. A.
I will use it, thanks justin to create this wonderful plugin
I’m also wondering if file attachments will be protected in the future versions of the plugin.
I’d like to see all of role scoopers features but in a much user friendly interface
Thanks for the plugin, Justin. This is what i need for my client’s project.
Custom fields are associated with a particular post… now if that post was to be excluded from certain groups, i’d also want the custom fields associated with that post excluded as well. You have done a good job, keep going..
So far, I think this plug-in will be very useful for my website. While my site is still under construction, I have noticed when I use your plug-in, my entire site requires a login in order to access it. What am I doing wrong?
I was looking for a plugin that would allow me to remove the publish_posts capability from the Author role. It installed easily in a snap and worked like a charm. Thanks so much for your excellent work!
great, I will try this out. I love wordpress plugins!
Love this plugin! Works great and I will use it in an upcoming site. The one thing I am not sure how to handle though is to have the members-only menu options only show up if the member is logged in. Right now everyone sees all the menu options and if they are not authorized to view the page, they get the appropriate error but it would be nicer if they did not even see the option.
This would be a useful enhancement to the plugin.
Thank you SO MUCH for this plugin! I’ve been searching high and low for a members solution as I plan on creating a site with premium content.
Hi,
thanks a lot for this (free) and efficient plugin: making private pages is easy now.
I do have 1 question: I made a detail page (not private), called ‘pagina’, which can be updated by one user only (with his specific role).
So I create a capability ‘edit_pagina_page’, it doesn’t work.
Only when I select also capability ‘edit_other_pages’, it works, but ofcourse that makes all the pages editable.
Do you have any suggestions..?
thank you very much,
diederik
About PayPal support – i.e. for paid membership / subscription options – it looks like Aaron Campbell has developed something quite impressive that might just be the type of solution the Members plugin needs: a PayPal framework application.
Would be great if Aaron could provide some help in making the two plugins play nice together!
Hi,
there is a usefull and simple screencast/tutorial howto use the members plugin to create a ‘private page’:
http://screenr.com/3HH
I am really surprised that someone has not come up with a plugin/hack that allows a wordpress blog to use extended user fields, themed login, profile & registration pages in one plugin. There are so many plugins out there that do one part or another but nothing seems to allow for a complete, integrated user management system.
I don’t care for the layout and design of the wordpress login, profile or registration pages. I want to add fields to the wordpress user meta data and use themed login, profile & registration pages to manage them. I want to suppress the wordpress hidden fields in the profile and registration pages so that the user never sees them.
Is there anything out there that does all this in one neat little plugin?
Great plugin, Justin!
Just wondering if you know of a way to restrict by role, which pages a user can post to? I’m creating a site where there will be three users, each will have a specific page they post to, but I want each to only see their specific posts and respective page in the backend.
Any thoughts?
We are attempting to use members for restricting access to pages based on roles, but, it appears that only the admins can gain access to the restricted pages regardless of the roles on the page. For instance, we restrict a page to the role ’super’. A user with the role of ’super’ is unable to access that page, only the users with ‘admin’ can access the page. Any thoughts?
We’d love to have the ability to be able to break out “delete users” into “delete editors,” “delete custom roles,” “delete admins,” etc.
We want to give someone CMS access to the WP back-end and the ability to create/edit/delete roles with the exception of admins.
yehoshanah — As far as I know, all of Role Manager’s role stuff is saved correctly on the WordPress side of things. Switching over shouldn’t have an effect on role and capability settings. If the plugin has other settings outside of that, they wouldn’t be carried over.
slee — I’m hoping there’ll be some sort of payment component in a future version of the plugin. If someone that knows how to work with payment systems (e.g., PayPal), it would be a simple thing to do to make it work with the Members plugin.
Pete — Ditto on what I just told slee above.
Tibor — No, the plugin itself couldn’t do that.
rZr — I’m hoping to implement some user-management features into version 0.2.
chad — I’m glad you like the plugin. The things you ask about should be fairly simple (assuming your WordPress theme is coded correctly).
Pancake — Yes, the plugin will be likely be compatible with WordPress as long as I’m using WordPress. I need it for my own sites, so development of this plugin is crucial for me to do the things I need.
Panagiotis — You likely have a conflict with another plugin if that’s the behavior you’re experiencing, but I’ll look into it.
Andy Macaulay-Brook — Yes, how to add new components is documented fully.
Jauhari — You’re welcome. I’m glad you like the plugin.
Panagiotis — Whenever the
add_meta_box()WordPress function starts working with attachment pages in the admin, you’ll see that feature.Pete — That plugin is definitely on my list of things to look through and see if there’s anything that would carry over nicely.
Kate Mag — You’re welcome. I’m glad it’s coming in handy for you.
TK Pandey — You’re welcome to exclude any custom data you want within your template files or through the use of
functions.php.Rick Reddel — If you need help using the plugin, please stop by my support forums.
Mark — I’m glad it’s coming in handy for you. And, thanks for sharing a bit of real-world experience with using the plugin.
deakaz — Let me know how it works out for you.
Donna — This feature is under consideration. I’m thinking over the best way to implement it.
Ali — You’re welcome. I’m glad you’ve found a use for the plugin.
diederik — I recommend reading through the
readme.htmlfile included with the plugin download. It will help you better understand how the plugin works with regards to capabilities.Also, thanks for making the screencast.
Álvaro Degives-Más — Thanks for linking to that. I hadn’t come across it before. I’ll definitely look into it.
Edward Kelley — I’m not surprised at all. It took me months to complete the initial release of this project. I hope in the next few version upgrades to be working more toward that all-in-one solution. It just takes time and loads of useful feedback and ideas.
Todd — Nope, I don’t know. It’s something I plan to look into at some point though.
Mike — You’ve probably not set something correctly. If you need help, stop by the support forums.
Jin — I doubt that feature will ever be implemented into the plugin. I’m not sure if it’s even possible.
Hey Justin!! Great job and thanks for this plugin!! I used to use the Role Manager Plugin but, it seemed like many of the features didn’t work anymore with the newer versions of Wordpress. This makes everything setting up a Wordpress CMS site a lot easier. It seems like this plugin and the PODS plugin are on the cutting edge of making Wordpress a ‘legimate’ and big boy worthy CMS.
Thanks again!!!
Does this functionality exist now? I’m pretty sure my theme is rock solid.
Plug-in works nicely, though one question … I’m trying to modify the code for the login form in “edit plugins”. The changes are saved but don’t show in my web browser. In WordPress I have “inactive” next to the /members/functions.php file name. How do I get that one activated so that it takes note of the changes I made?
Thanks!
Ronaye
Hi,
1. I am trying to set the capabilities for contributors to only view their own post. Right now it list all the post from all users.
2. I got lucky and guess how to create a pending Capability by adding the word “pending” to publish_posts. I added publish_posts_pending and it worked. Now all post are goes to pending status for review. However, how do I create other capabilities if I don’t know the code for it?
3. How do I remove all the other links in the navigation? I unchecked “read” capability, but it still shows Comments, Settings, and Contact which are other plugins I use. Is there a way to remove them so contributors don’t click them.?
Thank you for your help!
Hey there,
The plugin is pretty impressive – but in my implementation it forced everybody who navigated to my site to log in: effectively it was not possible to have a public site. (As admin I was utterly unaware of this; I only found out about it through investigating a dramatic drop in readership).
It may be that there was some sort of unlpeasant interaction between the plugin and some other plugins, or it may be that I mal-parameterised Members – whichever it is, I thought folks ought to be made aware (so this is not a criticism of the plugin per se: it is more a ‘heads up: there might be issues”).
For now I’ve had to delete it; I will more thoroughly investigate what went on this week.
Cheerio
GT
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Hey Justin, thanks for this. I am using the:
if ( function_exists( ‘current_user_has_role’ ) && current_user_has_role( ‘editor’ ) )
to show content and was unsure of the best way to include more than one role in this. I have not been successful thus far.
Thank you.
Rich
good job, i like ur plugin
I’d like to be able to edit the message displayed when someone tries to access restricted content and/or redirect to a login page.
Thanks very much i have downloaded this plugin and i will be using this for my new web site. thanks a lot
Hi, Great plugin! But there is one major issue that I’m having with it.
I want my editor to have the add_users and edit_users (maybe even delete_users) role, but only for people below their role.
If these roles are set, the editor can edit or even delete the Administrator.
If only the edit_users role is set, the editor can still delete users (including admin).
Is there a way around this to enable him to edit/delete below editor roles only?
After reading all the comments mentioning it, I don’t think you understand what people are asking for when inquire about restricting the custom fields for certain roles.
What people (and I) are asking for is the ability to restrict what roles can access and change custom fields, no one is asking that the custom fields only be able to fuction in certain ways.
For instance: as the administrator of a site, if I give someone the ability to create and edit posts, but those posts have to be approved by an editor first, I can do that. Let’s also say that editor adds some custom fields to every post. What I want to be able to do is prevent someone from editing/submitting custom fields.
Chris — You’re welcome. I’m glad you’ve been able to make use of it.
Chad — As mentioned, it should be fairly simple to do if your theme uses appropriate WordPress functions.
Ronaye — You should never edit plugin files.
Keith — If you need help with the plugin, you should ask on its support forums.
GT — Please consult the
readme.htmlfile or stop by the support forums.Rich Staats — If you need help, stop by the support forums.
gegewan — Thanks. I’m glad you like it.
Sara L. Martin — More filter hooks are coming in the next version.
Ronak — Let me know how it works out for you.
Rik — Please read through the
readme.htmlfile included with the plugin.Rob Blatt — I understand quite clearly what people are asking about as we’ve been discussing custom fields.
This is incorrect. Most of the discussion about custom fields has centered on custom fields on the frontend of the site, not the backend. That’s not to say I haven’t been asked about that particular functionality.
Justin,
Thank you very much for your plug-in and all of your hard work! I am having one serious issue with the plugin that I wanted to bring to your attention and I am wondering if anyone else has encountered it.
This issue is in relation to the ‘New Role’ function. I have created a ‘Blog Manager’ role, which I have provided with all the capabilities of an Author but with additional capabilities as well. For some reason this new role does not show up in the ‘Post Author’ drop-down menu when I write a new post. This problem means that the Blog Manager cannot add new posts under his own name – he can only write a new post if he selects the name of another user (admin, author, or contributor) as the author instead.
Justin,
congratulations, this plugin seems to fit my needs exactly..
grtz,
Tom.
Hi,
I’m missing the function to edit the role name.
regards,
Marc
Great work Justin. I’ll actually be using these features as selling points to a few of my more hands on clients. Do you do any custom work?
Hello, this seems like a really great and useful plugin. I don’t see a way to logout on the Login widget and am just wondering if I’m missing something?
Thanks,
Greg
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