Title: Much too Complex
Last modified: September 3, 2016

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# Much too Complex

 *  [wdhppr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wdhppr/)
 * (@wdhppr)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-too-complex/)
 * Looking for a way to allow only author (User) or Group to edit their page and
   not others. This is a very powerful tool that may be trying to do too much for
   too many situtations. I am of the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) mindset.

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 *  Plugin Author [Kevin Behrens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinb/)
 * (@kevinb)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-too-complex/#post-7926805)
 * Arbitrary assignment of page-specific editing permissions per-user or per-group
   is a Pro feature. But if you need a simple one-to-one relationship, Press Permit
   Core has a simple solution:
 * 1. (One time): give their role (WP Subscriber, etc.) or group a supplemental 
   role of Page Author.
 * 2. Set any user as the page Author of desired pages.
 * Do you also need to prevent those users from creating new pages? If so, enable
   the following setting: Permissions > Settings > Core > Filtered Post Types > “
   use create_posts capability”. Then use Capability Manager Enhanced to add the
   create_posts and create_pages capabilities to any roles which should have them.
 *  [Becki Beckmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/becki/)
 * (@becki)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-too-complex/#post-7926816)
 * hello kevin,
 * does this simple solution also apply to the current version 2.1.55?
 * my setup looks as follows:
 * created 2 teams of users, team-a and team-b
 * each team has a few users with role of author, e.g. user1-team-a, user2-team-
   a, user3-team-a
 * user1-team-b, user2-team-b, etc, etc …
 * each team of users gets a group setup via your plugin, team-a and team-b, with
   the users added from each team
 * each group gets the supplemental role of page author.
 * then created a few pages as user1-team-a, adding the group and also each user
   from that group in your plugin meta-box ‘reading exceptions’ on the page editing
   screen.
 * if i then login as the user1-team-a and click on pages, i only see the proper
   pages and all looks fine 😉
 * but if i then login as user2-team-a i don’t see any pages at all ;(
    same goes
   for user3-team-a ;-(
 * not sure if i understand your second point above correct? how can i set any user
   as the page author of the desired pages?
 * in the page editing screen meta-box authors i can only set a single user as page
   author! i can’t select multiple authors ;-(
 * if you mean the meta-box of your plugin called ‘reading exceptions’ i added the
   proper group under the group tag and also added each single user from the team.
 * but still user1-team-a won’t be able to see / edit pages from user2-team-a and
   vice versa.
 * what am i doing wrong? or is there still something i need to adjust?
 * where can i set multiple users as page authors for the desired pages?
 * or are the editing permissions only a pro feature? and not working with the free
   version?
 * thanks a lot for your help & thanks more than a lot for such a great plugin 😉
 * greetings
    becki
 *  Plugin Author [Kevin Behrens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinb/)
 * (@kevinb)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-too-complex/#post-7926817)
 * becki,
 * Page-specific editing permissions are a Pro feature. What you can do with PP 
   Core alone is give your group a supplemental role of Page Editor. If you need
   to distinguish between pages, consider defining custom posts types. Then assign
   supplemental roles of “SpecialPage Editor”, “FancyPage Editor” etc.
 *  [Becki Beckmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/becki/)
 * (@becki)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-too-complex/#post-7926818)
 * thanks a lot for your help, kevin

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