Zero. Level 1 is the minimum to create a new post.
You can specify what level can do what by editing wp-admin/menu.txt:
1 post.php Write
1 edit.php Edit
3 categories.php Categories
5 link-manager.php Links
3 users.php Users
6 options-general.php Options
8 plugins.php Plugins
4 templates.php Templates
5 upload.php Upload
0 profile.php My Profile
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menu.txt has become menu.php
i edited the values for write and edit, changing it from user level 1 to 2.
the result is that those menu options disappear for users level 1 and below. however this does nothing to change their permissions; they can still post and edit — in fact the admin screen defaults to write new post so nothing is hidden.
i have seen many posts asking how to customize user levels for 1.2 … i too would love to figure this out. even the ability to remove edit and write privileges from user level 1 would be most useful — yielding ‘some place to go above 0’ for restricted post read access (ala viewlevel plugin), etc.
if anybody knows how to customize level permissions please post a link or the code required.
thx
“Is there any documentation that specifies what users can do at each level?”
http://codex.wordpress.org/User_Levels
er, not sure how the codex page is supposed to help but thanks….
an hour or too of searching and i found a few helpful posts, partic the first:
Reworking Author Rights for Level 1
http://wordpress.org/support/4/10605
Hack: edit/delete post by author only
http://wordpress.org/support/10/9882
Only registerd users can see links
http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=19026
Category restrictions
http://wordpress.org/support/3/7427
wordpress.org posts mentioning ‘viewlevel’
http://tinyurl.com/4vokq
I was answering the original poster’s first question:
Q: “Is there any documentation that specifies what users can do at each level?”
A: http://codex.wordpress.org/User_Levels
oh cool, sorry about that.
a couple more links on the topic of user level restrictions:
fantastic-looking group of plugins
http://www.wellardsworld.com/archives/category/wordpress/hacks/
only registered users can comment hack
http://www.michaeltangen.com/comments_hack.txt
code snippets, etc from skippy
http://wordpress.org/support/3/6290
and of course, plugins: restriction
http://wiki.wordpress.org/?pagename=Plugin#restriction
If you check out this link I have found the files that must be edited to disallow posting my level 0 and level 1 and it seems to work well with the View Level Hack http://shelby.7pounds.net/archives/2005/01/21/disallow-posting-by-members
