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- PublishPress Permissions Pro v4.3.1
PublishPress Permissions Pro Introduction
Product Overview
PublishPress Permissions is a plugin designed for WordPress sites that require granular content permissions control. It extends the WordPress default permissions system by allowing administrators to set viewing and editing permissions for content such as posts, pages, categories, tags, and media libraries based on user roles, individual users, or custom user groups. Whether you're building a membership site, a corporate intranet, an educational platform, or a multi-author blog, PublishPress Permissions provides a flexible and powerful permissions management solution that ensures content security and accessibility.
Key Features
- View Permission Control: Set who can view the content for each article, page or category.
- Edit Permission Management: Define which users or roles can edit specific content.
- Media Library Permission Settings: Restricts user access and editing privileges to media files.
- Hide other users' content: Prevent users from viewing content in the background that they did not create themselves.
- Customized User Groups: Create user groups for more flexible assignment of permissions.
- Content preview function (Pro version): Provide preview summaries for restricted content to entice users to log in or escalate permissions.
- Automatic creation of user-specific content (Pro version): Automatically generate an exclusive page or article for each user.
- Customizing the Release Status (Pro version): Extend the default publishing process to support more customizable states.
- Content Visibility Status (Pro version): Set the visibility of the content, e.g. only visible to paid members.
- Integration with other plug-ins (Pro version): Compatible with bbPress, BuddyPress, WPML and other plugins to extend the scope of permission control.
Target audience and usage scenarios
- Multi-Author Blogs: A blogging platform that needs to control content access and editing permissions between authors.
- corporate intranet: Enterprise sites that wish to set content access permissions based on department or position.
- Educational platforms: An educational website that assigns access to course content based on roles such as student and teacher.
- Member Sites: A membership site that provides access to tiered content.
- Content Management Team: Content teams that require complex content review and publishing processes.
Comparison of similar plugins
Members by MemberPress：
- Advantage: User-friendly interface, suitable for basic permission setting.
- Weaknesses: more basic functionality and lack of advanced privilege control.
User Role Editor：
- Strengths: Allows editing of user roles and capabilities.
- Disadvantage: Setting permissions by content type or category is not supported.
PublishPress Permissions：
- Advantage: Provides fine-grained permissions control, supports multi-dimensional setting of permissions by content, classification, labeling, etc., suitable for websites with complex permissions requirements.
User Feedback Highlights
- “This plugin is perfect for projects that require complex permissions control and meets all of our needs for content access and editing permissions.”
- “The interface is intuitive and powerful, supporting team collaboration and content review processes.”
- “The strong integration with other plugins has greatly improved the efficiency of permissions management on our site.”
Matching Suggestions
- Page Builder: Elementor, Beaver Builder
- e-commerce plugin: WooCommerce (control access to products and orders)
- Membership System: MemberPress, Restrict Content Pro (used in combination for finer control of member content)
- Multi-language plug-ins:: WPML (controlling access to content in different languages)
