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Thank you for the advice.

Some of the plugins I looked at for the related issue had mixed reviews – a lot considered them great; but others had very serious issues, with WP updates, when trying to remove or update the plugin, clashes with other components, etc…. My guess is that they tried to do too much, too fine grained control.

Any you’d recommend, that would do just the subscriber or higher to continue reading? I’d like to keep that as simple as possible – to limit complications.

Thanks again.

This is not actually part of the thread – but a related issue:

How do you let any visitor read posts, up to the point of a “read more” link; but limit the ability to read the rest of the post to registered members; and indicate to unregistered users that they can read the rest of the post, if they register.

Probably best if clicking the “read more” link would bring unregistered visitors to registration page.

Couldn’t find a clear answer via search.

Thanks.

Hi Calvin,

Custom roles – I didn’t know that was an option.
I will check out the plugin. One thing I’ll look for is how it handles updates; could get messy if a WP update assumes only standard role assignments. You also reminded me to start a new thread on a related, but distinct, issue.

Thank you!

Still leaves the issue of some users (standard role contributors), feeling as if they’ve been lead down a blind ally, when they don’t see what they expect to see – an Add Media button.

Thanks again.

Hello Calvin,

I’m sure the restriction on uploading is well founded. I have no problem with the restriction to “Author” or higher for media uploads.

BTW, the reason I was using a “Contributor” user to create posts, was a habit of using least privileged accounts (security best practice). My thinking is it’s best to use an admin account, only for admin purposes – no need for any site visitor to even know the admin username.

Now I know to create posts using an “Author” account (just bumped that user to Author, while signed in as admin).

Carrying that desperation of concerns to an account just to answer site support questions can make sense too. Yes, you have to log in as different users to accomplish different tasks (or use more than one computer – my habit); but seems worth it to me.

I agree that user backlash can be an issue (and you have my sympathies).

Also, I can see the logic of not letting less trusted users upload media (though perhaps they should be allowed to use media already in a gallery).

A problem is that any user trying to accomplish a task (and finding difficulty), is likely to search WP-ORG, Google, Bing, etc, for answers.

The answer I saw everywhere was “…use the Add Media button…”. Nowhere did I see a reference to restrictions by role, as a reason why the button was not present; I had to figure that out on my own.

My guess is that users would “rant, rave and scream” all the louder, if they can’t do what support and how-to posts, articles and videos tell them to do. Maybe they just scream in a different direction?