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The document is a presentation by Alex Vasquez on managing user access in WordPress, emphasizing the importance of user experience over strict control. It discusses strategies for empowering clients while limiting their access to certain features, ensuring they can use WordPress effectively without causing significant issues. Key points include customizing the admin menu, removing unnecessary options, and using coding snippets to enhance usability.

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Slides: digisavvy.com/wcoc-2012 Controlling User Access in WordPress A practical overview of keeping clients happy and preventing #$%^& from getting broken Alex Vasquez, DigiSavvy, inc. @alexjvasquez digisavvy.com ocwp.org Sunday, June 3, 12
What You Should Know About Me. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
What You Should Know About Me. I’m Alex Vasquez. Hi! Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
What You Should Know About Me. I Run a Digital Marketing Agency Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
What You Should Know About Me. I Run a Digital Marketing Agency I’ve been building sites for over 10 years Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
What You Should Know About Me. I Run a Digital Marketing Agency I’ve been using WordPress for just over 3 years Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
What You Should Know About Me. I Run a Digital Marketing Agency Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
What You Should Know About Me. I Run a Digital Marketing Agency And According to Sprout Social... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
What You Should Know About Me. I Run a Digital Marketing Agency Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
What You Should Know About Me. I Run a Digital Marketing Agency Chicks between 35 and 44 think I’m hot! Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
What You Should Know About Me. I Run a Digital Marketing Agency Chicks between 35 and 44 think I’m hot! PROOF! Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
What’s on the Agenda? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
What’s on the Agenda? K Aargh! (a love story) Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
What’s on the Agenda? K Aargh! (a love story) L Managing the Experience Not the Control Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
What’s on the Agenda? K Aargh! (a love story) L Managing the Experience Not the Control U Adjusting How End-Users Use WordPress with Functions and Plugins Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
What’s on the Agenda? K Aargh! (a love story) L Managing the Experience Not the Control U Adjusting How End-Users Use WordPress with Functions and Plugins e Branding the Back End for Your Client Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
What’s on the Agenda? K Aargh! (a love story) L Managing the Experience Not the Control U Adjusting How End-Users Use WordPress with Functions and Plugins e Branding the Back End for Your Client ? Question and Answer Time Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Aargh! Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Aargh! How Many of You Give Admin Access to Your Clients When You Hand a Site Over? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
To give or not to give clients admin access... It’s a pretty good question. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
To give or not to give clients admin access... It’s a pretty good question. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
To give or not to give clients admin access... It’s a pretty good question. Any of this sound familiar? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
To give or not to give clients admin access... It’s a pretty good question. Any of this sound familiar? ✦ What the heck are all these update notifications I’m seeing? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
To give or not to give clients admin access... It’s a pretty good question. Any of this sound familiar? ✦ What the heck are all these update notifications I’m seeing? ✦ My site is le broken!!! Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
To give or not to give clients admin access... It’s a pretty good question. Any of this sound familiar? ✦ What the heck are all these update notifications I’m seeing? ✦ My site is le broken!!! ✦ My client did something that caused me to lose time... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
It’s not about managing access. It’s about managing the experience. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
It’s not about managing access. It’s about managing the experience. We spend so much time on perfecting the font end that we forget about the admin and how our client’s will use it Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
How much rope should we give to our clients? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
How much rope should we give to our clients? It’s really up to you. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Empowering Our Clients Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Empowering Our Clients I want to give my clients a little bit more than what the Editor Role allows, but far less than what the Admin role provides... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Empowering Our Clients Things to consider... I want to give my clients a little bit more than what the Editor Role allows, but far less than what the Admin role provides... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Empowering Our Clients Things to consider... I want to give my clients a little bit more than what the Editor ✦ How will your client use their awesome WordPress site? Role allows, but far less than what the Admin role provides... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Empowering Our Clients Things to consider... I want to give my clients a little bit more than what the Editor ✦ How will your client use their awesome WordPress site? Role allows, but far less than ✦ Is it okay if they download and install any what the Admin role provides... plugin? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Empowering Our Clients Things to consider... I want to give my clients a little bit more than what the Editor ✦ How will your client use their awesome WordPress site? Role allows, but far less than ✦ Is it okay if they download and install any what the Admin role provides... plugin? ✦ Does your client really need that admin access? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Let’s Get Started Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Let’s Get Started Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Let’s Get Started Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients ✦ Modify Admin Menus order and context so that it has more meaning for our client i.e. posts vs. articles. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Let’s Get Started Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients ✦ Modify Admin Menus order and context so that it has more meaning for our client i.e. posts vs. articles. ✦ Removing unnecessary menus and Widgets. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Let’s Get Started Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients ✦ Modify Admin Menus order and context so that it has more meaning for our client i.e. posts vs. articles. ✦ Removing unnecessary menus and Widgets. ✦ Make the client the “star” of their site Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Let’s Get Started Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients ✦ Modify Admin Menus order and context so that it has more meaning for our client i.e. posts vs. articles. ✦ Removing unnecessary menus and Widgets. ✦ Make the client the “star” of their site ✦ Does the client really need to change their theme? That’ll be the day! Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Tools of the Trade Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Tools of the Trade “A good user experience isn’t necessarily that far removed from a poor user experience. It can be small, subtle differences that can have a huge impact.” — Nathaniel Boehm Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Tools of the Trade Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients “A good user experience isn’t necessarily that far removed from a poor user experience. It can be small, subtle differences that can have a huge impact.” — Nathaniel Boehm Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Tools of the Trade Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients ✦ Useful Functions “A good user experience isn’t necessarily that far removed from a poor user experience. It can be small, subtle differences that can have a huge impact.” — Nathaniel Boehm Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Tools of the Trade Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients ✦ Useful Functions “A good user experience isn’t necessarily that far removed ✦ Awesome Plugins from a poor user experience. It can be small, subtle differences that can have a huge impact.” — Nathaniel Boehm Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Tools of the Trade Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients ✦ Useful Functions “A good user experience isn’t necessarily that far removed ✦ Awesome Plugins from a poor user experience. It ✦ Special Bonus... So, uh, stick can be small, subtle around differences that can have a huge impact.” — Nathaniel Boehm Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Programmatically Speaking... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Simple and easily implemented functions to help modify the appearance of your admin. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Simple and easily implemented functions to help modify the appearance of your admin. For the following examples, these are snippets you can plug into your theme’s functions.php file. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Simple and easily implemented functions to help modify the appearance of your admin. For the following examples, these are snippets you can plug into your theme’s functions.php file. Changing Menu Names/Labels function edit_admin_menus() { global $menu; global $submenu; $menu[5][0] = 'Articles'; // Change Posts to Articles $submenu['edit.php'][5][0] = 'All Articles'; $submenu['edit.php'][10][0] = 'Add an Article'; $submenu['edit.php'][15][0] = 'Topics'; // Rename categories to Topics $menu[10][0] = 'Images'; // Change Media to images $submenu['upload.php'][5][0] = 'All Images'; $submenu['media-new.php'][10][0] = 'Add New Image'; } add_action( 'admin_menu', 'edit_admin_menus' ); Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Simple and easily implemented functions to help modify the appearance of your admin. For the following examples, these are snippets you can plug into your theme’s functions.php file. Changing Menu Names/Labels function edit_admin_menus() { global $menu; global $submenu; $menu[5][0] = 'Articles'; // Change Posts to Articles $submenu['edit.php'][5][0] = 'All Articles'; $submenu['edit.php'][10][0] = 'Add an Article'; $submenu['edit.php'][15][0] = 'Topics'; // Rename categories to Topics $menu[10][0] = 'Images'; // Change Media to images $submenu['upload.php'][5][0] = 'All Images'; $submenu['media-new.php'][10][0] = 'Add New Image'; } add_action( 'admin_menu', 'edit_admin_menus' ); Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Preventing End-Users from Editing Important Stuff Like Theme and Plugin Files in the Admin Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Preventing End-Users from Editing Important Stuff Like Theme and Plugin Files in the Admin // Disable the theme / plugin text editor in Admin define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Preventing End-Users from Editing Important Stuff Like Theme and Plugin Files in the Admin // Disable the theme / plugin text editor in Admin define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); Before Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Preventing End-Users from Editing Important Stuff Like Theme and Plugin Files in the Admin // Disable the theme / plugin text editor in Admin define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); Before After Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Removing Unnecessary Menus Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Removing Unnecessary Menus function edit_admin_menus() { global $menu; global $submenu; remove_menu_page('tools.php'); // Remove the Tools menu remove_menu_page('link- manager.php'); // Get the links manager outta here } add_action( 'admin_menu', 'edit_admin_menus' ); Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Removing Unnecessary Menus Before function edit_admin_menus() { global $menu; global $submenu; remove_menu_page('tools.php'); // Remove the Tools menu remove_menu_page('link- manager.php'); // Get the links manager outta here } add_action( 'admin_menu', 'edit_admin_menus' ); Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Removing Unnecessary Menus Before After function edit_admin_menus() { global $menu; global $submenu; remove_menu_page('tools.php'); // Remove the Tools menu remove_menu_page('link- manager.php'); // Get the links manager outta here } add_action( 'admin_menu', 'edit_admin_menus' ); Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Creating a Useful Dashboard Widget Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Creating a Useful Dashboard Widget This chunk of code gives us... add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'digisavvy_widget'); function digisavvy_widget() { global $wp_meta_boxes; wp_add_dashboard_widget('custom_help_widget', 'Need Help With Your Website?', 'custom_dashboard_help'); } function custom_dashboard_help() { echo '<img style="margin-right:10px;" align="left" height="50" width="50" src="http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos- ash4/423659_10150636190229647_329024654646_9117065_1626144716_n.jpg"><ul> <li><strong>Launch Date:</strong> May 2012</li> <li><strong>Developed by:</strong> DigiSavvy</li> <li><strong>Hosting Provider</strong>: Hostgator</li> <li>Need help? Contact the DigiSavvy Team <a href="mailto:info@digisavvy.com">here</a>. For additional information on what we do, visit our site: <a href="http://digisavvy.com/contact" target="_blank">DigiSavvy</a> -or- feel free to give us a call:<strong> 855-344-7289</strong></li> </ul>'; } Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Useful Info for Clients Once You’ve Handed the Site Over to Them A dashboard widget that looks like this... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Useful Info for Clients Once You’ve Handed the Site Over to Them A dashboard widget that looks like this... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Further Reading & Resources Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Further Reading & Resources ✦ Customizing WordPress Admin by Jake Goldman, 10up.com - http://goo.gl/P2DB2 ✦ How to Customie the WP Admin Easily, Aurelien Denis, for Smashing Magazine - http://goo.gl/mt2wt ✦ Customizing Your WordPress Admin, by Chris Ensell for WP Tuts+ - http://goo.gl/BFalB ✦ Some swanky stuff to make your admin look GOOD, by Andrew Norcross - http://goo.gl/GX80f Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
For Those of Us Who Don’t Like Playing Around With Functions.php... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
For Those of Us Who Don’t Like Playing Around With Functions.php... There’s a Plugin for That! Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
We Need Plugins That Can... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
We Need Plugins That Can... ✦ Ensure a solid user experience for our clients Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
We Need Plugins That Can... ✦ Ensure a solid user experience for our clients ✦ Minimize confusion and potential for blowing #$%^ up Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
We Need Plugins That Can... ✦ Ensure a solid user experience for our clients ✦ Minimize confusion and potential for blowing #$%^ up ✦ Build our client’s personality into the site aka (brand it up!) Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros ✦ Easily Modify Elements in back- end such as login logo and footer information Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros ✦ Easily Modify Elements in back- end such as login logo and footer information ✦ Users can login via /login instead of /wp-admin Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros ✦ Easily Modify Elements in back- end such as login logo and footer information ✦ Users can login via /login instead of /wp-admin ✦ Easily hide non-essential menus from end-users Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros ✦ Easily Modify Elements in back- end such as login logo and footer information ✦ Users can login via /login instead of /wp-admin ✦ Easily hide non-essential menus from end-users ✦ Ability to brand the back end for our clients Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros The Cons ✦ Easily Modify Elements in back- end such as login logo and footer information ✦ Users can login via /login instead of /wp-admin ✦ Easily hide non-essential menus from end-users ✦ Ability to brand the back end for our clients Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros The Cons ✦ Easily Modify Elements in back- ✦ Removing menus and dashboard end such as login logo and footer widgets is somewhat limited information ✦ Users can login via /login instead of /wp-admin ✦ Easily hide non-essential menus from end-users ✦ Ability to brand the back end for our clients Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros The Cons ✦ Easily Modify Elements in back- ✦ Removing menus and dashboard end such as login logo and footer widgets is somewhat limited information ✦ Focuses on the Editor Role, no ✦ Users can login via /login instead role management of /wp-admin ✦ Easily hide non-essential menus from end-users ✦ Ability to brand the back end for our clients Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Are You Ready to Brand Stuff? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Are You Ready to Brand Stuff? BEHOLD!!!! Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS Change the login logo Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS Change the admin logo Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS Change the admin logo Change Dashboard logo and heading Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS Change Dashboard logo and heading Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
White Label CMS And of course, change your footer logo Change Dashboard logo and heading Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros ✦ Simple, elegant and thorough plugin for managing roles and capabilities for WordPress Users Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros ✦ Simple, elegant and thorough plugin for managing roles and capabilities for WordPress Users ✦ Easily create user roles and modify their capabilities Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros ✦ Simple, elegant and thorough plugin for managing roles and capabilities for WordPress Users ✦ Easily create user roles and modify their capabilities ✦ Create special user roles that have capabilities that don’t fit neatly within predefined WordPress User Roles Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros The Cons ✦ Simple, elegant and thorough plugin for managing roles and capabilities for WordPress Users ✦ Easily create user roles and modify their capabilities ✦ Create special user roles that have capabilities that don’t fit neatly within predefined WordPress User Roles Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros The Cons ✦ Simple, elegant and thorough plugin for ✦ Nada. I love this plugin! managing roles and capabilities for WordPress Users ✦ Easily create user roles and modify their capabilities ✦ Create special user roles that have capabilities that don’t fit neatly within predefined WordPress User Roles Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros The Cons ✦ Simple, elegant and thorough plugin for ✦ Nada. I love this plugin! managing roles and capabilities for WordPress Users ✦ Okay, just one grievance... ✦ Easily create user roles and modify their capabilities ✦ Create special user roles that have capabilities that don’t fit neatly within predefined WordPress User Roles Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros The Cons ✦ Simple, elegant and thorough plugin for ✦ Nada. I love this plugin! managing roles and capabilities for WordPress Users ✦ Okay, just one grievance... ✦ Easily create user roles and modify their ✦ Can be tricky to track down user capabilities capabilities for certain plugins, thus making it harder to target them ✦ Create special user roles that have capabilities that don’t fit neatly within predefined WordPress User Roles Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Custom Roles & Capabilities for Users Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Custom Roles & Capabilities for Users What do we wanna do? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Custom Roles & Capabilities for Users What do we wanna do? ✦ Assigned a role of ‘Grand Puba’ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Custom Roles & Capabilities for Users What do we wanna do? ✦ Assigned a role of ‘Grand Puba’ ✦ Disabled ability to mess with Plugins Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Custom Roles & Capabilities for Users What do we wanna do? ✦ Assigned a role of ‘Grand Puba’ ✦ Disabled ability to mess with Plugins Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Custom Roles & Capabilities for Users What do we wanna do? ✦ Assigned a role of ‘Grand Puba’ ✦ Disabled ability to mess with Plugins Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Pros ✦ Single page management for hiding menus, meta boxes and more ✦ Easy to define what user roles have access to which information ✦ Ability to add custom elements to exclude form client’s sight. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Cons ✦ UI is a bit overwhelming ✦ Doesn’t always include options to exclude menus for new plugins you might install Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Advanced Access Manager Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Advanced Access Manager Pros ✦ Includes Roles and Capabilities built-in. Don’t really need Members plugin ✦ Slightly better UI than Adminimize ✦ Provides ability to re-order menu ✦ Manage what widgets are visible to end- users Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Advanced Access Manager Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Advanced Access Manager Cons ✦ Easy to lock yourself out of WordPress if you’re not careful ✦ Can’t add your own elements to control access to. ✦ Has been buggy in the past Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Advanced Access Manager Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Resource Links n’ Stuff Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Resource Links n’ Stuff Members http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Resource Links n’ Stuff Members http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ Adminimize http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Resource Links n’ Stuff Members http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ Adminimize http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/ Advanced Access Manager http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-access-manager/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Resource Links n’ Stuff White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ Members http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ Adminimize http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/ Advanced Access Manager http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-access-manager/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Honorable Mention Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Honorable Mention Train Your Users to Train Themselves Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Honorable Mention Train Your Users to Train Themselves WP101 http://www.wp101.com/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Honorable Mention Train Your Users to Train Themselves WP101 http://www.wp101.com/ Video User Manuals http://www.videousermanuals.com/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
You Made it to the End! Huzzah! Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
You Made it to the End! Huzzah! Remeber that bonus I talked about? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
You Made it to the End! Huzzah! Remeber that bonus I talked about? Neat-o Functionality Plugin https://github.com/digisavvy/wcoc-2012-plugin Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
You Made it to the End! Huzzah! Remeber that bonus I talked about? Neat-o Functionality Plugin https://github.com/digisavvy/wcoc-2012-plugin Any Questions? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
Roll the Credits & Resources ✦ Brandon Dove and Jeffrey Zinn and ✦ Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin — the WCOC 2012 Team. http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/17/ ✦ Bill Erickson — billerickson.net members-wordpress-plugin ✦ Advanced Access Manager — ✦ 10up.com http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced- ✦ wp.smashingmagazine.com access-manager/ ✦ My fellow OCWPeers. You guys ✦ White Label CMS — http://wordpress.org/extend/ rock! plugins/white-label-cms/ ✦ Adminimize — http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ ✦ wp.tutsplus.com adminimize/ ✦ Stephen Carroll and DesktopServer Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12

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  • 2. What You Should Know About Me. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
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  • 12. What’s on the Agenda? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
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  • 15. What’s on the Agenda? K Aargh! (a love story) L Managing the Experience Not the Control U Adjusting How End-Users Use WordPress with Functions and Plugins Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 16. What’s on the Agenda? K Aargh! (a love story) L Managing the Experience Not the Control U Adjusting How End-Users Use WordPress with Functions and Plugins e Branding the Back End for Your Client Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 17. What’s on the Agenda? K Aargh! (a love story) L Managing the Experience Not the Control U Adjusting How End-Users Use WordPress with Functions and Plugins e Branding the Back End for Your Client ? Question and Answer Time Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 18. Aargh! Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 19. Aargh! How Many of You Give Admin Access to Your Clients When You Hand a Site Over? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 20. To give or not to give clients admin access... It’s a pretty good question. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 21. To give or not to give clients admin access... It’s a pretty good question. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 22. To give or not to give clients admin access... It’s a pretty good question. Any of this sound familiar? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 23. To give or not to give clients admin access... It’s a pretty good question. Any of this sound familiar? ✦ What the heck are all these update notifications I’m seeing? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 24. To give or not to give clients admin access... It’s a pretty good question. Any of this sound familiar? ✦ What the heck are all these update notifications I’m seeing? ✦ My site is le broken!!! Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 25. To give or not to give clients admin access... It’s a pretty good question. Any of this sound familiar? ✦ What the heck are all these update notifications I’m seeing? ✦ My site is le broken!!! ✦ My client did something that caused me to lose time... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 26. It’s not about managing access. It’s about managing the experience. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 27. It’s not about managing access. It’s about managing the experience. We spend so much time on perfecting the font end that we forget about the admin and how our client’s will use it Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 28. How much rope should we give to our clients? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 29. How much rope should we give to our clients? It’s really up to you. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 30. Empowering Our Clients Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 31. Empowering Our Clients I want to give my clients a little bit more than what the Editor Role allows, but far less than what the Admin role provides... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 32. Empowering Our Clients Things to consider... I want to give my clients a little bit more than what the Editor Role allows, but far less than what the Admin role provides... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 33. Empowering Our Clients Things to consider... I want to give my clients a little bit more than what the Editor ✦ How will your client use their awesome WordPress site? Role allows, but far less than what the Admin role provides... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 34. Empowering Our Clients Things to consider... I want to give my clients a little bit more than what the Editor ✦ How will your client use their awesome WordPress site? Role allows, but far less than ✦ Is it okay if they download and install any what the Admin role provides... plugin? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 35. Empowering Our Clients Things to consider... I want to give my clients a little bit more than what the Editor ✦ How will your client use their awesome WordPress site? Role allows, but far less than ✦ Is it okay if they download and install any what the Admin role provides... plugin? ✦ Does your client really need that admin access? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 36. Let’s Get Started Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 37. Let’s Get Started Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 38. Let’s Get Started Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients ✦ Modify Admin Menus order and context so that it has more meaning for our client i.e. posts vs. articles. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 39. Let’s Get Started Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients ✦ Modify Admin Menus order and context so that it has more meaning for our client i.e. posts vs. articles. ✦ Removing unnecessary menus and Widgets. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 40. Let’s Get Started Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients ✦ Modify Admin Menus order and context so that it has more meaning for our client i.e. posts vs. articles. ✦ Removing unnecessary menus and Widgets. ✦ Make the client the “star” of their site Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 41. Let’s Get Started Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients ✦ Modify Admin Menus order and context so that it has more meaning for our client i.e. posts vs. articles. ✦ Removing unnecessary menus and Widgets. ✦ Make the client the “star” of their site ✦ Does the client really need to change their theme? That’ll be the day! Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 42. Tools of the Trade Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 43. Tools of the Trade “A good user experience isn’t necessarily that far removed from a poor user experience. It can be small, subtle differences that can have a huge impact.” — Nathaniel Boehm Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 44. Tools of the Trade Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients “A good user experience isn’t necessarily that far removed from a poor user experience. It can be small, subtle differences that can have a huge impact.” — Nathaniel Boehm Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 45. Tools of the Trade Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients ✦ Useful Functions “A good user experience isn’t necessarily that far removed from a poor user experience. It can be small, subtle differences that can have a huge impact.” — Nathaniel Boehm Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 46. Tools of the Trade Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients ✦ Useful Functions “A good user experience isn’t necessarily that far removed ✦ Awesome Plugins from a poor user experience. It can be small, subtle differences that can have a huge impact.” — Nathaniel Boehm Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 47. Tools of the Trade Ways we can create a useful experience for our clients ✦ Useful Functions “A good user experience isn’t necessarily that far removed ✦ Awesome Plugins from a poor user experience. It ✦ Special Bonus... So, uh, stick can be small, subtle around differences that can have a huge impact.” — Nathaniel Boehm Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 48. Programmatically Speaking... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 49. Simple and easily implemented functions to help modify the appearance of your admin. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 50. Simple and easily implemented functions to help modify the appearance of your admin. For the following examples, these are snippets you can plug into your theme’s functions.php file. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 51. Simple and easily implemented functions to help modify the appearance of your admin. For the following examples, these are snippets you can plug into your theme’s functions.php file. Changing Menu Names/Labels function edit_admin_menus() { global $menu; global $submenu; $menu[5][0] = 'Articles'; // Change Posts to Articles $submenu['edit.php'][5][0] = 'All Articles'; $submenu['edit.php'][10][0] = 'Add an Article'; $submenu['edit.php'][15][0] = 'Topics'; // Rename categories to Topics $menu[10][0] = 'Images'; // Change Media to images $submenu['upload.php'][5][0] = 'All Images'; $submenu['media-new.php'][10][0] = 'Add New Image'; } add_action( 'admin_menu', 'edit_admin_menus' ); Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 52. Simple and easily implemented functions to help modify the appearance of your admin. For the following examples, these are snippets you can plug into your theme’s functions.php file. Changing Menu Names/Labels function edit_admin_menus() { global $menu; global $submenu; $menu[5][0] = 'Articles'; // Change Posts to Articles $submenu['edit.php'][5][0] = 'All Articles'; $submenu['edit.php'][10][0] = 'Add an Article'; $submenu['edit.php'][15][0] = 'Topics'; // Rename categories to Topics $menu[10][0] = 'Images'; // Change Media to images $submenu['upload.php'][5][0] = 'All Images'; $submenu['media-new.php'][10][0] = 'Add New Image'; } add_action( 'admin_menu', 'edit_admin_menus' ); Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 53. Preventing End-Users from Editing Important Stuff Like Theme and Plugin Files in the Admin Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 54. Preventing End-Users from Editing Important Stuff Like Theme and Plugin Files in the Admin // Disable the theme / plugin text editor in Admin define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 55. Preventing End-Users from Editing Important Stuff Like Theme and Plugin Files in the Admin // Disable the theme / plugin text editor in Admin define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); Before Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 56. Preventing End-Users from Editing Important Stuff Like Theme and Plugin Files in the Admin // Disable the theme / plugin text editor in Admin define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); Before After Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 57. Removing Unnecessary Menus Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 58. Removing Unnecessary Menus function edit_admin_menus() { global $menu; global $submenu; remove_menu_page('tools.php'); // Remove the Tools menu remove_menu_page('link- manager.php'); // Get the links manager outta here } add_action( 'admin_menu', 'edit_admin_menus' ); Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 59. Removing Unnecessary Menus Before function edit_admin_menus() { global $menu; global $submenu; remove_menu_page('tools.php'); // Remove the Tools menu remove_menu_page('link- manager.php'); // Get the links manager outta here } add_action( 'admin_menu', 'edit_admin_menus' ); Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 60. Removing Unnecessary Menus Before After function edit_admin_menus() { global $menu; global $submenu; remove_menu_page('tools.php'); // Remove the Tools menu remove_menu_page('link- manager.php'); // Get the links manager outta here } add_action( 'admin_menu', 'edit_admin_menus' ); Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 61. Creating a Useful Dashboard Widget Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 62. Creating a Useful Dashboard Widget This chunk of code gives us... add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'digisavvy_widget'); function digisavvy_widget() { global $wp_meta_boxes; wp_add_dashboard_widget('custom_help_widget', 'Need Help With Your Website?', 'custom_dashboard_help'); } function custom_dashboard_help() { echo '<img style="margin-right:10px;" align="left" height="50" width="50" src="http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos- ash4/423659_10150636190229647_329024654646_9117065_1626144716_n.jpg"><ul> <li><strong>Launch Date:</strong> May 2012</li> <li><strong>Developed by:</strong> DigiSavvy</li> <li><strong>Hosting Provider</strong>: Hostgator</li> <li>Need help? Contact the DigiSavvy Team <a href="mailto:info@digisavvy.com">here</a>. For additional information on what we do, visit our site: <a href="http://digisavvy.com/contact" target="_blank">DigiSavvy</a> -or- feel free to give us a call:<strong> 855-344-7289</strong></li> </ul>'; } Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 63. Useful Info for Clients Once You’ve Handed the Site Over to Them A dashboard widget that looks like this... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 64. Useful Info for Clients Once You’ve Handed the Site Over to Them A dashboard widget that looks like this... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 65. Further Reading & Resources Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 66. Further Reading & Resources ✦ Customizing WordPress Admin by Jake Goldman, 10up.com - http://goo.gl/P2DB2 ✦ How to Customie the WP Admin Easily, Aurelien Denis, for Smashing Magazine - http://goo.gl/mt2wt ✦ Customizing Your WordPress Admin, by Chris Ensell for WP Tuts+ - http://goo.gl/BFalB ✦ Some swanky stuff to make your admin look GOOD, by Andrew Norcross - http://goo.gl/GX80f Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 67. For Those of Us Who Don’t Like Playing Around With Functions.php... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 68. For Those of Us Who Don’t Like Playing Around With Functions.php... There’s a Plugin for That! Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 69. We Need Plugins That Can... Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 70. We Need Plugins That Can... ✦ Ensure a solid user experience for our clients Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 71. We Need Plugins That Can... ✦ Ensure a solid user experience for our clients ✦ Minimize confusion and potential for blowing #$%^ up Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 72. We Need Plugins That Can... ✦ Ensure a solid user experience for our clients ✦ Minimize confusion and potential for blowing #$%^ up ✦ Build our client’s personality into the site aka (brand it up!) Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 73. White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 74. White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 75. White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros ✦ Easily Modify Elements in back- end such as login logo and footer information Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 76. White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros ✦ Easily Modify Elements in back- end such as login logo and footer information ✦ Users can login via /login instead of /wp-admin Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 77. White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros ✦ Easily Modify Elements in back- end such as login logo and footer information ✦ Users can login via /login instead of /wp-admin ✦ Easily hide non-essential menus from end-users Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 78. White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros ✦ Easily Modify Elements in back- end such as login logo and footer information ✦ Users can login via /login instead of /wp-admin ✦ Easily hide non-essential menus from end-users ✦ Ability to brand the back end for our clients Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 79. White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros The Cons ✦ Easily Modify Elements in back- end such as login logo and footer information ✦ Users can login via /login instead of /wp-admin ✦ Easily hide non-essential menus from end-users ✦ Ability to brand the back end for our clients Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 80. White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros The Cons ✦ Easily Modify Elements in back- ✦ Removing menus and dashboard end such as login logo and footer widgets is somewhat limited information ✦ Users can login via /login instead of /wp-admin ✦ Easily hide non-essential menus from end-users ✦ Ability to brand the back end for our clients Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 81. White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ The Pros The Cons ✦ Easily Modify Elements in back- ✦ Removing menus and dashboard end such as login logo and footer widgets is somewhat limited information ✦ Focuses on the Editor Role, no ✦ Users can login via /login instead role management of /wp-admin ✦ Easily hide non-essential menus from end-users ✦ Ability to brand the back end for our clients Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 82. Are You Ready to Brand Stuff? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 83. Are You Ready to Brand Stuff? BEHOLD!!!! Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 84. White Label CMS Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 85. White Label CMS Change the login logo Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 86. White Label CMS Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 87. White Label CMS Change the admin logo Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 88. White Label CMS Change the admin logo Change Dashboard logo and heading Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 89. White Label CMS Change Dashboard logo and heading Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 90. White Label CMS And of course, change your footer logo Change Dashboard logo and heading Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 91. Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 92. Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 93. Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros ✦ Simple, elegant and thorough plugin for managing roles and capabilities for WordPress Users Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 94. Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros ✦ Simple, elegant and thorough plugin for managing roles and capabilities for WordPress Users ✦ Easily create user roles and modify their capabilities Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 95. Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros ✦ Simple, elegant and thorough plugin for managing roles and capabilities for WordPress Users ✦ Easily create user roles and modify their capabilities ✦ Create special user roles that have capabilities that don’t fit neatly within predefined WordPress User Roles Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 96. Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros The Cons ✦ Simple, elegant and thorough plugin for managing roles and capabilities for WordPress Users ✦ Easily create user roles and modify their capabilities ✦ Create special user roles that have capabilities that don’t fit neatly within predefined WordPress User Roles Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 97. Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros The Cons ✦ Simple, elegant and thorough plugin for ✦ Nada. I love this plugin! managing roles and capabilities for WordPress Users ✦ Easily create user roles and modify their capabilities ✦ Create special user roles that have capabilities that don’t fit neatly within predefined WordPress User Roles Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 98. Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros The Cons ✦ Simple, elegant and thorough plugin for ✦ Nada. I love this plugin! managing roles and capabilities for WordPress Users ✦ Okay, just one grievance... ✦ Easily create user roles and modify their capabilities ✦ Create special user roles that have capabilities that don’t fit neatly within predefined WordPress User Roles Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 99. Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ The Pros The Cons ✦ Simple, elegant and thorough plugin for ✦ Nada. I love this plugin! managing roles and capabilities for WordPress Users ✦ Okay, just one grievance... ✦ Easily create user roles and modify their ✦ Can be tricky to track down user capabilities capabilities for certain plugins, thus making it harder to target them ✦ Create special user roles that have capabilities that don’t fit neatly within predefined WordPress User Roles Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 100. Custom Roles & Capabilities for Users Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 101. Custom Roles & Capabilities for Users What do we wanna do? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 102. Custom Roles & Capabilities for Users What do we wanna do? ✦ Assigned a role of ‘Grand Puba’ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 103. Custom Roles & Capabilities for Users What do we wanna do? ✦ Assigned a role of ‘Grand Puba’ ✦ Disabled ability to mess with Plugins Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 104. Custom Roles & Capabilities for Users What do we wanna do? ✦ Assigned a role of ‘Grand Puba’ ✦ Disabled ability to mess with Plugins Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 105. Custom Roles & Capabilities for Users What do we wanna do? ✦ Assigned a role of ‘Grand Puba’ ✦ Disabled ability to mess with Plugins Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 106. Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 107. Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 108. Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Pros ✦ Single page management for hiding menus, meta boxes and more ✦ Easy to define what user roles have access to which information ✦ Ability to add custom elements to exclude form client’s sight. Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 109. Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 110. Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Cons ✦ UI is a bit overwhelming ✦ Doesn’t always include options to exclude menus for new plugins you might install Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 111. Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 112. Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Advanced Access Manager Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 113. Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Advanced Access Manager Pros ✦ Includes Roles and Capabilities built-in. Don’t really need Members plugin ✦ Slightly better UI than Adminimize ✦ Provides ability to re-order menu ✦ Manage what widgets are visible to end- users Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 114. Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Advanced Access Manager Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 115. Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Advanced Access Manager Cons ✦ Easy to lock yourself out of WordPress if you’re not careful ✦ Can’t add your own elements to control access to. ✦ Has been buggy in the past Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 116. Finely Controlling Your Client’s WordPress Experience Adminimize Advanced Access Manager Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 117. Resource Links n’ Stuff Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 118. Resource Links n’ Stuff Members http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 119. Resource Links n’ Stuff Members http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ Adminimize http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 120. Resource Links n’ Stuff Members http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ Adminimize http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/ Advanced Access Manager http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-access-manager/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 121. Resource Links n’ Stuff White Label CMS http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/white-label-cms/ Members http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/ Adminimize http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/adminimize/ Advanced Access Manager http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-access-manager/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 122. Honorable Mention Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 123. Honorable Mention Train Your Users to Train Themselves Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 124. Honorable Mention Train Your Users to Train Themselves WP101 http://www.wp101.com/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 125. Honorable Mention Train Your Users to Train Themselves WP101 http://www.wp101.com/ Video User Manuals http://www.videousermanuals.com/ Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 126. You Made it to the End! Huzzah! Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 127. You Made it to the End! Huzzah! Remeber that bonus I talked about? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 128. You Made it to the End! Huzzah! Remeber that bonus I talked about? Neat-o Functionality Plugin https://github.com/digisavvy/wcoc-2012-plugin Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 129. You Made it to the End! Huzzah! Remeber that bonus I talked about? Neat-o Functionality Plugin https://github.com/digisavvy/wcoc-2012-plugin Any Questions? Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12
  • 130. Roll the Credits & Resources ✦ Brandon Dove and Jeffrey Zinn and ✦ Justin Tadlock’s Members Plugin — the WCOC 2012 Team. http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/17/ ✦ Bill Erickson — billerickson.net members-wordpress-plugin ✦ Advanced Access Manager — ✦ 10up.com http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced- ✦ wp.smashingmagazine.com access-manager/ ✦ My fellow OCWPeers. You guys ✦ White Label CMS — http://wordpress.org/extend/ rock! plugins/white-label-cms/ ✦ Adminimize — http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ ✦ wp.tutsplus.com adminimize/ ✦ Stephen Carroll and DesktopServer Alex Vasquez - Controlling User Access in WordPress @alexjvasquez - digisavvy.com Sunday, June 3, 12