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Restrict Client Access To Just Posts In WP

by barq
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Have a client who wants to update their blog on a WP site. Blog is setup as a category using posts (premium theme came this way).

I do not want her to have access to the rest of the site, in fears of messing anything up.

Is there a way to restrict her access to just the blog or just posting new posts?

I see you can choose different "roles" in adding a new user within WP, but I'm not sure which of these might do the trick if any (Subscriber, Editor, Author, Contributor) ...

(If one of these would do this, where/when do you limit the access? It's not on the Setup New User page.)

I also checked out available plugins for "restrict access" but couldn't figure out which one might do this.

Appreciate any advice, thank you.
#access #client #posts #restrict
  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Contributor.

    And if you are the admin, when adding a new user it is down there the last field: ROLE > select contributor from the dropdown.

    EDIT. And you don't need to do anything... WP is smarter than you think :p
    (meaning, it will limit the user's capabilities according to the Role)

    Mandatory reading for those that sell themselves as "WP experts" to clients:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
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    • Profile picture of the author barq
      Good thing I don't sell myself as a "WP expert," but I did read the info ... seems what they want is the "Author" role which allows publishing the post as well as creating/editing it ... thanks for the response, Istvan
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