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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There's a long-running feature/bug in WordPress that prevents you from using unpublished pages as parents: that is, you can't add child pages to anything that's set to private, password-protected, scheduled, pending, or draft.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 am a consultant, open source developer, and accessibility specialist with decades of experience in building inclusive, usable web interfaces. Anceble is my new consulting venture for public good organizations. You can get in touch here or on LinkedIn.

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