Roles
Roles
Roles and capabilities in detail: what a tick does, where a view ends and the lock begins.
Create or clone a role of your own→
Why cloning is almost always the better way, and what happens to the users when you delete
Setting capabilities in the matrix→
What a tick really does, which capabilities count as sensitive, and how custom post types join in
Moving users and granting several roles→
Bulk moving all holders of a role, multiple roles per user, and per-user capabilities for the special case
Restricting content and parts of a page→
The “Access” box in the editor, what a blocked request shows, and the shortcodes for parts of a page
Admin menu, navigation menu and widgets per role→
Why hidden does not mean forbidden — and where the real lock sits
Exporting the setup, reading it in and distributing it across the network→
The whole permissions setup as a file, the two import modes and keeping roles in step across a multisite
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