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WordPress 5 Cookbook

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Book Image

WordPress 5 Cookbook

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By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress has been the most popular content management system (CMS) for many years and is now powering over 30% of all websites globally. With the demand for WordPress development and skilled developers ever-increasing, now is the best time to learn WordPress inside out. This book starts with simple recipes for configuring WordPress and managing basic platform features. You’ll then move on to explore how to install and customize WordPress plugins, widgets, and themes. The next few chapters cover recipes for content and user-management-related topics such as customizing the content display, working with content types, using the new Gutenberg editor, and customizing editorial workflow for building advanced blogs. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use WordPress as an application framework as well as a platform for building e-commerce sites. This WordPress book will also help you optimize your site to maximize visibility on search engines, add interactivity, and build a user community to make the site profitable. Finally, you’ll learn how to maintain a WordPress site smoothly while taking precautions against possible security threats. By the end of the book, you’ll have the tools and skills required to build and maintain modern WordPress websites with the latest technologies and be able to find quick solutions to common WordPress problems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Managing user roles and permissions

Managing different access levels for site features as well as content is critical for any site that has more than one user. WordPress uses user roles and capabilities to manage access to features and content. By default, WordPress uses five user roles of Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, and Subscriber for single-site installations. Roles are used to separate users into groups with common functionalities. Capabilities define which tasks can be performed by a user. We can use roles and capabilities in combination to assign only the necessary permission levels to any given user.

In this recipe, we are going to look at the process of managing permissions by creating custom roles and custom capabilities and assigning the necessary permissions to user roles.

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