How to restrict users to only edit some pages

  • Resolved mjpg

    (@mjpg)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    What I want to do:
    My site has 80 pages, few posts.

    I want two users to:
    * be able to edit only three of the pages
    * and not edit any of the others

    What I’ve tried:
    * used User Role Editor to create a role called ‘Helper’ which has capabilities roughly below editor
    * used WP Access Areas to create an area called ‘German pages’.
    * setup a user with ‘Helper’ role
    * for the three pages, set ‘Who can edit’ to ‘German pages’

    What happens is that the ‘Helper’ role can edit all other pages.

    Question
    What is the best way to exclude all other pages – without setting an access area for those?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-access-areas/

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  • Plugin Author podpirate

    (@podpirate)

    Hi mjpg,

    By setting the who can edit’ option you have only narrowed the access to the ‘german pages’. I’d suppose you wanted the exact opposite – german pages being more permissive than others.

    You can try this:

    1. create an access area ‘non german content’ and assign it to all non-german posts and pages. (You can use the posts bulk edit feature to make this a less painful task.)
    2. Assign ‘non german pages’ to every user you want to have editing capabilities on the other pages and posts. (Theres also some kind of bulk editing for users.)
    Thread Starter mjpg

    (@mjpg)

    Thanks for the quick reply.

    I can see that I could change access to all other pages, but then we have to remember to set that up for new pages.

    Is there a way to either:

    1. Set the default access to pages/posts or

    2. Set the ‘Helper’ edit capability to be only for ‘German pages’

    Plugin Author podpirate

    (@podpirate)

    Both no. Apologies.
    Anyway, default access sounds like a good a good Idea to me.
    I’ll consider this in a future release.
    regards,
    j.

    Thread Starter mjpg

    (@mjpg)

    No need to apologise, the plugin works well in what it does and you’ve been very helpful.

    Thanks

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