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Stephanie Leary

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New Inclusive Parents plugin adds more statuses to WordPress’s Parent Page options

September 23, 2016 Stephanie Leary 1 Comment

There's a long-running feature/bug in WordPress that prevents you from using unpublished pages as parents: that is, you can't add child pages to anything that's set to private, password-protected, scheduled, pending, or draft. This prevents you from doing things like creating a … [Read more...] about New Inclusive Parents plugin adds more statuses to WordPress’s Parent Page options

WordPress inclusive parents, Plugins, private, Workflow

Changing roles’ capabilities

February 4, 2010 Stephanie Leary 1 Comment

If you need to change one or two capabilities, it's relatively easy to do so with a few lines of code in a plugin or your theme functions file. For example, if we wanted to allow any logged-in user to view our private posts and pages, we would need to grant them two additional … [Read more...] about Changing roles’ capabilities

WordPress capabilities, permissions, Privacy, private, Users and Roles

Create private categories

January 16, 2010 Stephanie Leary 4 Comments

Have you ever tried to create a category consisting entirely of private posts? It's a pain to have to remember to set the visibility for each post before publishing it. One of my users simply couldn't remember to do it, resulting in a lot of accidentally public posts on that … [Read more...] about Create private categories

WordPress categories, Privacy, private, restriction

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I’m a front end developer at Equinox OLI, working on open source library software. I was previously a freelance WordPress developer in higher education. You can get in touch here or on LinkedIn.

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