Title: Set LOCK for Admin?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Set LOCK for Admin?

 *  [mar2195](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mar2195/)
 * (@mar2195)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-lock-for-admin/)
 * My goal is to “protect” Admin users from accidentally editing/deleting a page
   that is set to LOCK. They would be aware that if a page is set to “Lock,” they
   should not be editing/deleting that page because of the ALERT that displays from
   your plugin.
 * So I would like to have the “WP capability” input to include Admin users for 
   the lock – BUT – they would also have the ability to LOCK/UNLOCK.
 * Also, for a future version, for sites with a ton of pages/posts … along with “
   Lock only specified pages,” it would be nice to have “Lock all pages except: …”
   to allow for a more convenient method of only having to enter the excluded pages.
 * Thanks.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/lock-pages/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/lock-pages/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Steve Taylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gyrus/)
 * (@gyrus)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-lock-for-admin/#post-6463752)
 * Hi there,
 * I’ve applied the first change you’ve suggested by adding a ‘protect from all’
   setting. It default to off – if it’s set to on, the locking will apply even if
   you have the capability to manage locking. (Obviously you’ll still be able to
   lock / unlock.) Please download this version and test it out, let me know if 
   it works OK for you…
 * [https://github.com/gyrus/Lock-Pages/archive/77cec216716bd0d39576f9d9336fea563b28b218.zip](https://github.com/gyrus/Lock-Pages/archive/77cec216716bd0d39576f9d9336fea563b28b218.zip)
 * I’m looking into the other suggestion. One issue is that at the moment, the ‘
   scope’ option to set whether you lock all pages or only specified pages only 
   applies to *pages*. This is partly an overhang from the plugin’s origins as only
   applying to pages anyway. Applying locking to CPTs was recently introduced, and
   obviously I decided to not extend this flexibility to CPTs. So no CPTs are locked
   unless specifically locked.
 * It would be easy to introduce a ‘lock all pages except’ scope, if we kept the
   scope to pages only. I think if we wanted to extend this scope option to CPTs,
   it would need to be set for every CPT.
 * If you only need this for pages, that makes it easy – what do you think?
 *  Plugin Author [Steve Taylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gyrus/)
 * (@gyrus)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-lock-for-admin/#post-6463753)
 * Hi there,
 * I’ve created a version that has an option to lock all pages except those specified.
   Please download from GitHub:
 * [https://github.com/gyrus/Lock-Pages/archive/lock-all-except.zip](https://github.com/gyrus/Lock-Pages/archive/lock-all-except.zip)
 * I’d really appreciate it if you could help test this! Let me know how it works
   for you, hopefully I can release this as a new version soon.
 * Cheers,
 * Steve
 *  Plugin Author [Steve Taylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gyrus/)
 * (@gyrus)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-lock-for-admin/#post-6463754)
 * One oversight in this feature might be creating new pages. If you’ve set all 
   pages to be locked except ones specified, if editors create new pages, they’re
   immediately locked. Doesn’t sound like a good situation to me. Perhaps if the‘
   except’ option is set, users who don’t have the required permission to edit locked
   pages can’t create pages either?

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 * Last reply from: [Steve Taylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gyrus/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-lock-for-admin/#post-6463754)
 * Status: not resolved