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How To Assign Multiple Roles To A User In WordPress?

Earlier we have discussed the plugins that enable you to assign more capabilities to users and user roles. In this lesson, you will learn how to allocate multiple roles to any user in your WordPress site.

Role Includer is the new WordPress plugin that enables you to provide any user with the ‘promote_users’ capability and handle the allocation of roles.

Start by installing ‘Role Includer’ plugin in WordPress

Role Includer 1

Upon activation visit your admin area dashboard Users -> All Users page and select any user’s ‘Roles’ option.

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It directs you to a page where you can include more roles to that user role and promote it. The plugin can be used in combination with other user role plugins like ‘User Role Editor’ and ‘Capability Manager Enhanced’.

To start, visit your admin area dashboard Users -> Roles Includer and click the ‘Plugin Suggestions’ tab.

Now tick checkbox option to enable installation prompt and force plugin activation. Only tick one of these:

  1. User Role Editor: Provides the ability to edit users’ capabilities.
  2. Capability Manager Enhanced: Another plugin that provides the ability to edit users’ capabilities.

Any of the given plugins will allow you to define new user roles and capabilities in your WordPress site. When you select a plugin, it will prompt you through the installation and the plugin will be forced active.

Deselecting any plugin will not remove it from your WordPress site, you will need to manually deactivate and uninstall it from your website or network.

Easily Attach, Unattach or Reattach Media Files And Data To Different WordPress Posts

Attaching, unattaching and reattaching media data to different WordPress posts is easy. With new Re-attacher plugin you can reattach uploaded media files to posts in your WordPress site.

Other than this, the plugin also allows you to completely detach files from posts. It also enables you to manage both single and groups of media files.

It also turns Gallery and Portfolio plugins more convenient to use because after installing Re-attacher plugin you won’t have to upload new images each time you need using them on gallery or portfolio pages. Instead, it lets you to use uploaded files.   Continue reading Easily Attach, Unattach or Reattach Media Files And Data To Different WordPress Posts

Creating A Single Page Responsive Website With WordPress

Creating a complete website with multiple pages and a side blogging or news section is easy but sometimes people go after one page website specially while launching new products, creating personal website with static content and important links etc.

Whatsoever may be the reason, now you can easily create single page websites in a few clicks.  Continue reading Creating A Single Page Responsive Website With WordPress

Showing Ads On WordPress Admin Area Dashboard

Now you can easily monetize WordPress admin area dashboard. There are various plugins that allows to displays ads on the frondend of your WordPress site. But in this lesson you will learn how to display ads on backend i.e admin area dashboard. Great for multi-author WordPress blogs.

So if you are also running a website or blog with many authors, editors, contributors who get access to your website’s admin section then it is good to monetize your backend and start making more money.

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Easily Show Recommended Posts In A PopUp At The End Of Your Content In WordPress

Showing recommended posts in a popup at the end of your content is now easy. As soon your user scrolls your post and reaches the end of the page, you can automatically show next reading recommendation in a popup box.  Continue reading Easily Show Recommended Posts In A PopUp At The End Of Your Content In WordPress

Easily Hide Related YouTube Videos From Showing Up On Your WordPress Site Embeds

By default, when a YouTube video is played, it automatically shows up other related videos which a user can select and play on your website. A few days back, a SANGKRIT.net user asked us to post tutorial for blocking this YouTube feature on videos embedded in a WordPress site.

In this lesson you will learn how to hide related videos to show up on YouTube videos embedded with built-in oEmbed feature in WordPress.  Continue reading Easily Hide Related YouTube Videos From Showing Up On Your WordPress Site Embeds

Easily Add A Floating Login Element In WordPress

Instead of traditional login widget you can fix a floading login element on the top of your website screen. Floating Login is the new WordPress plugin that automatically add this widget on your website and allows you to use a custom login & logout URL.

For instance: By default, WordPress automatically redirects user to admin area after successful login and redirect the to login screen when they logout from your website.  Continue reading Easily Add A Floating Login Element In WordPress

Birds Author Box – New Tabbed Author Box Display For WordPress

Birds Author Box is the new author box plugin for WordPress. It provides you a tabbed author box which can be displayed in your posts to show post author’s name, bio, social links and latest posts made by that author on your WordPress site.

Using this plugin one can set custom profile picture instead of the default gravatar image, add Facebook, Google+, Linkedin and more from user profile page.  Continue reading Birds Author Box – New Tabbed Author Box Display For WordPress

Assign Tasks To Users And Manage Their Submissions In WordPress

In this lesson you will learn how to assign tasks individually or to a group of users in your WordPress site. You can assign new tasks, projects, set time period for each task to complete and manage their credits & submissions from your WordPress admin area dashboard.  Continue reading Assign Tasks To Users And Manage Their Submissions In WordPress

WP Style Kit – Apply New Text Styles From WordPress Visual Editor

Default WordPress TinyMCE buttons present in visual editor provides you limited set of options. Earlier we have discussed about adding more options by activating new TinyMCE buttons in visual editor present on ADD NEW/EDIT content screens of WordPress.  Continue reading WP Style Kit – Apply New Text Styles From WordPress Visual Editor

Removing Author, Date And Meta Display On WordPress Themes

Default, WordPress functionality automatically displays author, date, taxonomies and other meta details before of after posts, pages and other custom post types. The feature is good for blogging, news and media websites but WordPress is not just a blog anymore.

Hence, some website owners don’t want this information to be shown on their business websites. Here we are discussing about the same problem. So in this lesson you will learn about removing date, author and meta data on a WordPress site, without editing any theme file.

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Easily Remove “Comments Are Closed” Text In WordPress

WordPress comments settings are managed from your admin area dashboard Settings -> Discussions page. There are options that allows you to automatically close comments after a give number of days, you can completely turn off comments or make comment form available only for logged in users etc.

When a post with closed comments shows up on the frontend of your website, it automatically displays ‘Comments are closed’ notification to your website visitors. In this lesson you will learn how to hide this notification.  Continue reading Easily Remove “Comments Are Closed” Text In WordPress

Allow Users To Randomize Their Avatars In WordPress

By default WordPress uses your Gravatar profile image or the mystery man avatar. Earlier we have discussed about enabling custom user avatars in WordPress, we have also discussed about enabling comic avatars and setting up a default avatar imageContinue reading Allow Users To Randomize Their Avatars In WordPress

Use Custom Header Image As Your WordPress Login Logo

By default, WordPress uses its official logo on login screen pages. Earlier we have discussed about turning off all WordPress branding like login logo, admin bar logo, admin footer text and all other admin branding text, images. We have also discussed about customizing login screen page.

In this lesson you will learn how to make this process more easy by automatically resizing and turning your header image to your WordPress login screen logo.  Continue reading Use Custom Header Image As Your WordPress Login Logo