Comments on: Making custom user roles in Wordpress

By: David

David — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:24:25 +0000

Does anyone know if an Admin can override category assignment on a case-by-case basis using ‘Bind user to category’? I’m trying to approximate the functionality of Soapblox on a WP site, so want to initially restrict users to one category but have the option to promote individual posts to another category based on community input.

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:00:53 +0000

Role Scoper will sort you out, without the need to hack files:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/role-scoper/

By: saraswathi

saraswathi — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:29:21 +0000

can any one please help me out in creating different user levels?

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:39:09 +0000

There is a plugin that lets you restrict specific users’ posts to specific categories: “Bind User to Category”. A small hack is required to get this working with more recent versions of WP (see http://www.technokinetics.com/bind-user-to-category-wp-28/), but other than that my experience is that it works well.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:36:49 +0000

@Joshua

There is a plugin that lets you restrict specific users’ posts to a specific category: “Bind User to Category”. Until it’s updated, a small hack is needed to get this working with more recent versions of WP (see http://www.technokinetics.com/bind-user-to-category-wp-28/), but other than that it works well.

Tim

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:25:11 +0000

Great information!

Do you know if it is possible to limit the category a user can use? For instance, I am building a community in the weight-loss niche (same site connected to my name), and I want to allow my users to post about their own weight-loss journey via my blog under the category Community Blog … So I only want them to have the permission to post under that category

Thanks in advance,
Joshua C.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:01:03 +0000

Very cool. I see you wrote this a year ago, and WP has moved on since then, but I thought I’d write anyway. The thing I want is when I assign the “edit pages” capability, that the user doesn’t automatically see the “Write” tab and start getting all excited about writing tons of new pages. I do a lot of highly customised designs, and that kind of client interference invariably breaks the navigation.

Hey, while I’m at it, do you know of any way to turn off all the font control buttons in the editor? I know it’s either FCK Editor or TinyMCE (can’t remember which one); have you ever done that?