CMS lacks in editorial control

  • rexseven

    (@rexseven)


    7 years, 7 months ago

    The one thing I find limiting in wordpress is editorial control.

    I’d like to see the ability to restrict editorial rights of pages to groups or ‘roles’ rather than just one author.

    Example site structure:

    Example site structure:

    -Home
-About
-Cars
  -BMW
    -118d
    -M3
  -Mazda
   -MX5
   -Mazda 3
  -Toyota
   -Supra
   -GT4
-Contact us

    What I want to do:

    I may want to have a group of editors for BMW who can only edit and add pages within the BMW section. Then have a group of editors for the ‘Toyota’ section etc. I think wordpress lacks this out of the box.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    7 years, 7 months ago

    There are a lot of plugins for workflow and restrictions on who can do what.

    This google search “wordpress plugin access by category” finds some that look like they’d be useful.

    cleancoded

    (@cleancoded)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    You’re right, this is not out-of-the-box functionality. Because WordPress is utilized to power any variety of different sites, in different verticals, all doing different things, it provides some basic functionality by default, while leveraging a framework that can be infinitely customized to suit your preferences and business needs. I feel this is actually one of the platform’s greatest strengths.

    This being said, restricting editors’ access to specific pages is absolutely doable. Like most things related to WordPress development, there are many ways to do this.

    I would personally utilize the “Capability Manager Enhanced” plugin, which is free in the ww.wp.xz.cn plugin repository:

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/capability-manager-enhanced/

    After you install and activate this plugin, go to Users > Capabilities to configure plugin settings.

    I found a blog post that provides some step-by-step instructions for setting up this plugin to provide the functionality it sounds like you’re looking for:

    https://wpwarfare.com/allow-editors-only-edit-certain-pages-in-wordpress/

    Thread Starter rexseven

    (@rexseven)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    The issue with these plugins is i’m yet to find one that does what I’ve described.

    I’m referring to page restrictions per group not post restrictions and categories.

    All the capability/role plugins allow you to do is set things like ‘allow to edit others pages’, ‘edit pages’. Obviously this doesn’t help when trying to assign groups of people to specific pages.

    I think a multisite is probably the best solution although certainly not ideal

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