Block user from backend of WP

  • essencious

    (@essencious)


    14 years, 9 months ago

    I’m working on a project at the moment for a client. They would like some sort of MediaWiki features.

    They want to create a new user group called “Wiki Editors”. These wiki editors can only edit certain pages through a front end editor: http://scribu.net/wordpress/front-end-editor. They don’t want these wiki editors to be able to access the back end of wordpress.

    I’m not sure it is possible to block certain user groups from acessing the backend of wordpress.

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  • Nnyan

    (@nnyan)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    I’m trying to basically accomplish the same thing and it takes at least 3 plugins to “remove” the elements in the various areas. You are basically just hiding things from your group of users. You might want to play around with these (BACKUP first or install on a test area I ran into varying conflicts).

    wp Hide Dashboard
    Hide Admin Panels
    Clean WP Dashboard

    Dashboard Lite (old)
    Custom Write Panel (broken)

    sweetangst

    (@sweetangst)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    Perhaps use something like Role Scoper.

    It’s a little open ended in the way you can define EXACTLY what either a single user or a group of users can do… so you have to be creative to get it to do what you want. I’ve managed to set up a blog with post category level read access (e.g. if the user is in group A, he can only see category A posts… but if a user is in group B, he can see category A & B posts, etc.)

    It also works for editing roles and etc. So you could set it up such that users in one group could only edit pages of a certain category — in such a way that when they log in, they get a minimalistic administrative dash that ONLY shows their profile and add posts, and if they are restricted to a particular category, then no matter what they do, their posts will only get categorized as that.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/role-scoper/

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