Big Bagel

If you can provide a link to your site it would be helpful.

Try this plugin:

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/recently-registered/

You can set the visibility of a post/page to private (only you can see it) or protected (requires a password). However, administrators and editors will always be able to see every post/page regardless. This page explains this in more detail:

Content Visibility

Anything else would require a plugin or coding.

Putting this in style.css would do the trick.

#site-title {
    width: 100%;
    text-align: center;
}

#site-description {
    width: 100%;
    text-align: center;
    color: black;
}

Switching to a child theme is always a good idea when editing a theme:

Child Themes

WordPress asks for your FTP credentials when it can’t access the files directly. This is usually caused by PHP running as the apache user (mod_php or CGI) rather than the user that owns your WordPress files (suPHP or FastCGI). Switching over to using suPHP or FastCGI would probably fix it. Of course, if you don’t want to mess with that, you can always just put your FTP credentials directly in wp-config.php like this:

define( 'FTP_USER', 'username' );
define( 'FTP_PASS', 'password' );
define( 'FTP_HOST', 'ftp.example.org:21' );

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Editing_wp-config.php#WordPress_Upgrade_Constants

Here are a few links that might be useful:

https://www.chrisabernethy.com/why-wordpress-asks-connection-info/
https://admindaily.com/how-to-stop-wordpress-ftp-to-upgrade-plugins.html
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/wp-asks-for-ftp-userpass-when-upgrading-a-plugin
https://boomshadow.net/tech/php-handlers/

The specifics depend on the theme you’re using, but you can use get_post_type() in your search loop to check the post type. Something like this would work:

if ( 'your-custom-post' == get_post_type() ) {
    /* Title for this custom post type */
} else {
    /* Title for everything else */
}

Without a link to see exactly which lines you want to get rid of, it’s impossible to say where they’re being added (plugin, theme, or core).

If you’re using permalinks:

example.com/category/category-name/feed

WordPress Feeds

If you wanted to simplify that slightly, you could instead check for a certain capability that all those roles would share. For example:

<?php if ( current_user_can( 'publish_posts' ) ) { ?>

@nicomorrison:

Erm…I’m sure that plugin was extremely useful before custom menus were added to WordPress in version 3.0. However, I would think using the built-in menu screen (as long as your theme supports it) would be easier than installing a plug-in to do exactly the same thing. Plus, you’ll end up with actual links (to anything you want) as opposed to dummy pages that redirect.

Also, I think this topic has moved past the actual custom link creation.

@expat:

No, that plugin is not for altering theme files. To alter your theme’s CSS (usually style.css) you can try the built-in editor (Appearance->Editor) or use an FTP client to download and, after editing, reupload the file. These pages might help with that:

Editing Files
FTP Clients

Also, when editing a theme, it’s always a good idea to switch to a child theme so you don’t lose your edits if/when your theme updates.

Child Themes

Edit:

If you really don’t want to mess with any theme files, you can also try a plugin that allows you to add custom CSS dynamically. Here’s a good one:

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/safecss/

This is the forum for those with self-hosted WordPress sites.

https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

If your blog is on WordPress.com, you should try their forum and/or support page:

https://en.support.wordpress.com/
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/

I can point you to this possibly relevant page:

https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/

Also, it is possible to register on WordPress.com without having it automatically create a blog for you. Here’s the sign up page to do that:

https://en.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1

Indeed, adding the ability to use custom menus to a theme that doesn’t support them is a simple matter of adding a small amount of code in functions.php. I just didn’t know that’s what you wanted…

For any future readers, here are a couple tutorials on enabling custom menus in a theme that doesn’t already support them:

https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-add-custom-navigation-menus-in-wordpress-3-0-themes/
https://www.devlounge.net/code/how-to-add-support-for-menus-in-your-wordpress-theme

Just for the sake of being complete, here’s an example of what I think you’re going for:

$args = array(
    'show_home'   => true,
    'link_before' => '<span>',
    'link_after'  => '</span>'
);

wp_page_menu( $args );

I think you might be confused as to the intendted use of wp_nav_menu() then, which is to allow custom menus through “Appearance->Menus”.

Function Reference/wp nav menu
Appearance Menus Screen

If you don’t plan on ever using that functionality, you should use wp_page_menu() instead.

Function Reference/wp page menu

User levels have been deprecated. You should check user roles instead:

Roles and Capabilities

If you need to check that the current user has the appropriate privileges, you can use current_user_can():

Function Reference/current user can