Restriction to backend only

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Irmina Ng

Hi! I am creating a knowledge base which involved a lot of Author. I would link to limit their permission to contribute to some assigned taxonomies only. Your plugin is working like charm on this function! Yet, I would like to allow them to view all posts in all taxonomies in the front end. Therefore they should be restricted by taxonomies in backend only. Is there any ways I can do this by this plugin?

Thanks!

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  1. Denitsa Avatar
    Denitsa

    Hello,
    Thanks for using the plugin!
    If we’re on the same page here, you’d like to restrict Authors to be able to post only in certain categories/taxonomies, while the whole content is accessible (available for reading) for everyone, correct?
    If that’s the case, I’m afraid the Groups Restrict Categories plugin doesn’t offer an out-of-the-box solution, as it’s designed to restrict any access to the chosen taxonomies.
    You can customize the capabilities for any taxonomy with the register_taxonomy() function, and then create a group with the respective capabilities. The capabilities array for taxonomies offers to assign custom values to the manage_terms, edit_terms, delete_terms and assign_terms capabilities.
    Here’s the Codex page on the register_taxonomy function, it’s pretty extensive and offers some examples too -> https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_taxonomy
    Cheers,
    Denitsa

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