In some cases you may not wish that blog registered users edit some part of theirs user profile. Let’s see how we can achieve this purpose.
1) In case you decide to prohibit user change his password use special WordPress filter show_password_fields: Read more Hide/disable WordPress user profile fields
User Role Editor News
User Role Editor WordPress plugin related news: updates, fixes, new versions
User Role Editor Pro version 4.10
User Role Editor Pro version 4.10 was published at February, 15th, 2014. The updates include:
- Security enhancement: ‘__()’ and ‘_e()’ WordPress text translation functions were replaced with more secure ‘esc_html__()’ and ‘esc_html_e()’.
- It is possible to restrict access to the post or page content view for selected roles. Activate the option at plugin “Settings” page and use new “Content View Restrictions” metabox at post/page editor to setup content view access restrictions. Read more…
- Gravity Forms access management module was updated for compatibility with Gravity Forms version 1.8.3. If you need compatibility with earlier Gravity Forms versions, e.g. 1.7.9, use User Role Editor version 4.9.
User Role Editor Pro version 4.9
User Role Editor Pro version 4.9 is available for download.
The list of updates includes:
- New tab “Default Roles” was added to the User Role Editor settings page. It is possible to select multiple default roles to assign them automatically to the new registered user.
- CSS and dialog windows layout various enhancements.
- ‘members_get_capabilities’ filter was applied to provide better compatibility with themes and plugins which may use it to add its own user capabilities.
- Option was added to download jQuery UI CSS from the jQuery CDN.
- Bug was fixed: Plugins activation assess restriction section was not shown for selected user under multi-site environment.
User Role Editor Pro version 4.8
User Role Editor Pro version 4.8 is available for download.
The list of updates includes:
- Role ID validation rule was added to prohibit numeric role ID – WordPress does not support them.
- HTML markup was updated to provide compatibility with upcoming WordPress 3.8 new administrator backend theme MP6.
- It is possible to manage access of single sites administrators to the selected user capabilities and Add/Delete role operations inside User Role Editor.
- Shortcode [user_role_editor roles=”none”]text for not logged in users[/user_role_editor] is available.
- Other shortcode enclosed inside “user_role_editor” shortcode are processed recursively.
- Gravity Forms available at “Export Entries”, “Export Forms” pages is under URE access restriction now, if such one was set for the user.
- Gravity Forms import could be set under “gravityforms_import” user capability control.
- Option was added to show/hide help links (question signs) near the capabilities from single site administrators.
- Plugin “Options” page was divided into sections (tabs): General, Multisite, About.
- Author’s information box was removed from URE plugin page.
- Restore previous blog ‘switch_to_blog($old_blog_id)’ call was replaced to ‘restore_current_blog()’ where it is possible to provide better compatibility with WordPress API.
- After use ‘switch_to_blog()’ in cycle, URE clears ‘_wp_switched_stack’ global variable directly instead of call ‘restore_current_blog()’ inside the cycle to work faster.
Shortcode for content view access restriction
Shortcode for posts/pages content view access restriction is available at User Role Editor Pro starting from version 4.7. Enclose restricted content with these shortcodes:
1) [user_role_editor roles="role1, role2"] some restricted content [/user_role_editor];
2) [user_role_editor except_roles="role1, role2"] some restricted content [/user_role_editor];
3) [user_role_editor users="user_id1, user_login1"] some restricted content [/user_role_editor];
4) [user_role_editor except_users="user_id1, user_login1"] some restricted content [/user_role_editor]
and you will restrict access to the part or the whole content of any post or page.
roles attribute: restricted content will be available for the logged-in user with one of the roles you input for the roles attribute of the [user_role_editor] enclosing tag. You should input the role identificator, not the role name. For example, valid shortcode will be [user_role_editor roles="contributor"], not [user_role_editor roles="Contributor"]. Pay attention to the lowercase 1st letter at “contributor”.
For all other users including the guest visitors restricted content, enclosed by the shortcode described above, will be hidden.
If you wish to show some content for not logged in (guest) visitors only, use this shortcode [user_role_editor roles="none"].
If you use a comma ‘,’ sign as a separator inside roles list: “role1, role2”, then ‘OR’ rule is applied: users with role1 OR role2.
If you use a ‘&&’ signs as a separator inside roles list: “role1 && role2”, then ‘AND’ rule is applied: user with role1 AND role2 simultaneously.
except_roles attribute: To show content inside shortcode to all logged in users except users with selected roles, included them into the ‘except_roles’ attribute. For example, if you don’t wish to show some text to the ‘subscriber’ role and other not logged in visitors use this shortcode:
[user_role_editor except_roles="subscriber, none"]some text to hide from subscribers[/user_role_editor].
‘none’ is a virtual role ID used by URE for not logged-in users
users attribute: To show content inside shortcode to logged in users with user ID or login inside comma separated list you can use this shortcode:
[user_role_editor users="18, 23, willy"]some restricted content[/user_role_editor]
except_users attribute: To show content inside shortcode to all users except users with user ID or login inside comma separated list you can use this shortcode:
[user_role_editor except_users="17, 25, peggy"]some restricted content[/user_role_editor]
In order to take into account not logged-in visitor you can use ID=0, like:
[user_role_editor except_users="0, 23, willy"]some restricted content[/user_role_editor]. This shortcode will show content inside to all logged-in users except user with ID=23 and user with login ‘willy’.
Other shortcodes enclosed inside User Role Editor shortcode are processed recursively.
