WordPress Permissions

Tutorials:

• Protecting content so only users with rights can view that content.
• Creating supplemental groups and giving them rights to edit only their content.
• Create and Onyen protected page (Simple Method). WARNING: Does NOT protect files attached to page.
• Creating an Onyen protected custom visibility status (Advanced). 
• Protecting files attached to onyen protected pages.  

Plugins to Edit Roles:

If the above roles are not sufficient for you you can edit those roles by activating the following plugins on any WebdotUNC site.

• Press Permit – This is the core plugin for managing permissions.  You can set up custom groups for viewing content.
• PP Teaser Extension – You can create a custom teaser sentence to show to users that don’t have rights to view content, or need to log in to view something.
• PP Back-End Content Roles – This adds capabilities to Press Permit to control who can edit content on the backend as well.
• PP File Filtering – This will protect files that are attached to protected content so that users can not view PDF’s or other files attached to content unless they have rights to that.
• Capability Manager Enhanced – If you need to give a default role (subscriber, contributor  etc) more capabilities than they normally have.  This can be used alone, or in conjunction with Press Permit and the above plugins

Default Roles & Capabilities

By default WordPress has five built in roles: 

• Subscriber – Can view content and comment.  No editing rights.
• Contributor – Can write new posts, but not publish them.
• Author – Can write and publish their OWN posts.
• Editor – Can write and publish their OWN and OTHERS posts.
• Administrator – Can write posts, pages, edit the theme, add other users, work with sidebars and menus.