User Permissions Plugin

Nov 1, 2006 | Tags: permissions, plugin, wordpress | Written by Administrator

User Permissions is a plugin that takes the simple WordPress permissions models one step further and allows you to assign permissions to specific posts that restrict users or roles from reading or editing it.

To summarize:

Restrict reading or writing of post or page according to the user's role (i.e. prevent non-registered users reading a post)
Allow specific users to read or write a post or page
Permissions are assigned directly inside the post itself - there is no additional interface
Fully localized

This plugin works very well with Red Alt's excellent Role Manager plugin. If you are interested in using permissions then you will probably be interested in that too.

Installation

The plugin is simple to install:

Download user-permissions.zip
Unzip
Upload user-permissions directory to your /wp-content/plugins directory

You can find full details of installing a plugin on the plugin installation page.

Usage

Using the User Permissions is very simple. When you are editing a post or page a new form will appear to the right of the content:

When a role is enabled, all other roles are restricted. That is, if you give the administrator read and write access to a post then all other roles that are not enabled are restricted. If no roles are restricted then access is determined by the WordPress defaults.

The user section allows you to additionally specify user IDs (comma-separated) that are specifically allowed access. Any user listed here is allowed access, even if they are otherwise denied by their role.

If you restrict read access to a post then it is removed from the home page, search results, and archives, for anyone who does not have permissions. You can additionally define a post ID which will a restricted user will be redirected to should they attempt to view the post.

An administrator cannot be restricted.

Support

Please direct all support questions to the User Permissions support forum. Any support questions left on this page may not be answered.

Bugs & New Features

A full list of all bugs can be found in the User Permissions issue tracker.

A full list of all requested features can be found in the User Permissions feature tracker.

Comments (page 8 of 8)

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Becky :
Aug 8, 2008 11:27 am

Well, I only got the Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object when I was installing in a subdirectory. It works fine in root directory.
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Becky :
Aug 8, 2008 10:54 am

I'm getting the same error... any fix yet?
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mrcopesetic :
Jul 29, 2008 12:02 pm

hi there,
i had the problem yesturday that my homepage was white! I deactivated all the plug ins and 1 byx 1 reactivated them! it turns out that the problem was in the user permissions plugin! i then took a look here and found and installed 0.8.1 but I still have the problem! I'm using word press 2.6 if that helps any...
thx although for a great plug in!
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Joan Planas :
Jul 27, 2008 8:04 pm

Thanks, but I try 0.8.1 - WP 2.6:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in .../wp-content/plugins/user-permissions/user-permissions.php on line 95
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John (author) :
Jul 27, 2008 11:37 am

Try version 0.8.1
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clicloo :
Jul 24, 2008 4:53 am

I have the same problem
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in .../wp-content/plugins/user-permissions/user-permissions.php on line 94
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Joan Planas :
Jul 24, 2008 2:06 am

Hello, great plugin!

but in WP 2.6 it have a problem:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in .../wp-content/plugins/user-permissions/user-permissions.php on line 94

thanks
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John (author) :
Jul 1, 2008 1:27 pm

K, use the plugin as described above - it is designed to restrict edit access.
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Emma :
Jun 29, 2008 3:46 pm

Just wanted to thank you for the latest update Works great!
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K :
Jun 29, 2008 10:24 am

How do I get this plugin to only work for users to edit only assigned pages ? I want the pages to be able to displayed for the public.