User access manager presentation web

Building a Private User
Access Area with
WordPress
By Vanessa Chu
vanessa@designfaire.com
www.designfaire.com

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Logged in Site Requirements

3 separate “blog” areas for each user group
Each group has unique editing and viewing abilities
Blog must have categories
Blog must be searchable
Media in these areas must be locked


Content Restriction
Membership sites that manage
the viewing of content

Wishlist Membership Membership
MemberWing Magic Members


Capabilities Restriction
Membership site that manages user
capabilities

Manages user permissions to do VARIOUS tasks by
creating custom user groups and roles, and assigning
capabilities to each
E.g User Access Manager, Members Plugin, Role
Scoper etc.


What are Roles?

Roles are a set of abilities assigned to users which
control what a user can or cannot do on a site
5 default Roles: Administrator, Editor, Author,
Contributor, Subscriber
http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities


What are Capabilities?

Each Role is allowed to perform a set of tasks called
Capabilities.
E.g. publish_post, moderate_comments, edit_users
etc.


What are User Groups?
User Groups are different from Roles.
User Groups are arbitrary names for groupings of users
User Groups are assigned Roles and Roles are
assigned Capabilities.


So....
If you can create unique roles,
then you can create unique
roles with unique capabilities!


The process...
1.Install User Access Manager and Capability Manager
plugins
2.Create User Groups
3.Create Custom Post Types & Taxonomies for each
User Group
4. Create Roles and assign capabilities to each User Group
5. Create Custom Post Type Templates
6. Finishing touches


Create User Groups


Register Custom Post Types


Register Custom Taxonomies

Custom taxonomies have capability arguments as well.
Register your custom taxonomies with capabilities,
then assign the capabilities to speciﬁc roles as you
would with Custom Post Types.
See: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/06/10/a-
refresher-on-custom-taxonomies


Create your Roles & assign Capabilities


Manually Creating Roles &
Capabilities
You can create roles and capabilities manually via the
functions.php ﬁle.
Adding custom roles
add_role( $role_name, $display_name, $capabilities );
// for example:
add_role( 'photo_uploader', 'Photo Uploader', array( 'organize_gallery' ) );

Adding custom capabilities
// get the "author" role object
$role = get_role( 'author' );

// add "organize_gallery" to this role object
$role->add_cap( 'organize_gallery' );

See: http://www.garyc40.com/2010/04/ultimate-guide-to-roles-and-capabilities/


Post & Page Access


Create your Custom Post
Type Templates
Create archive-posttypename.php and single-posttypename.php


Custom Sidebars

In your archive-posttypename.php ﬁle you may want to
place in custom sidebars with you corresponding
Taxonomies.
Or you can create a custom widgetized sidebar for
each of your archive-post-typename.php


Conditional Statements

Use conditional statements with particular user
capabilities to create unique instances for each role.

if ( current_user_can
( 'edit_directors' ) ) {
// do something
}


Re-direction

User Access Manager has the ability for you to assign a
particular page to redirect a User Group once logged
in.
Redirect plugin also does this (e.g. Peter’s Login
Redirect plugin)


Custom Post Type Search


Thanks!

Vanessa Chu
vanessa@designfaire.com
www.designfaire.com


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