Editors for specific pages
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I asked this a few years ago and was told that it might be considered for the future. I wonder whether WordPress have considered it? My use of WordPress Blogs is in teaching and I have several Blogs for different classes and purposes. They have become a fantastic resource. On some Blogs, students have editing privileges, with approval required first. I would really, really, really like that they do not have whole-Blog editing privileges but are able to edit specific Pages or Posts – ie add content or upload their own work to specific areas of the Blog. Might this be possible? I can imagine that allowing this convenience would be so very useful in many other sorts of Blogs, not only in education. Thanks.
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Hi there,
A user with the Author role can only publish posts, not pages, and only edit posts they created themselves.
The Editor user role can edit all posts and pages on a site, by any author.
These user roles are defined in the core WordPress software itself. Creating a new user role that falls somewhere between Author and Editor like you describe, would need to be created in the open source software on WordPress.org, before it would be available on WordPress.com, but I don’t think it’s very likely something like that would be added, unfortunately: the standard method for adding new user roles to WordPress is using plugins, and as far as I know there are already plugins that offer the customizable permissions you’re looking for.
There’s always the possibility that we can integrate a plugin like that on WordPress.com. I can’t make any promises, but I see we have an open feature request for this, so I’ll add your vote to that.
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Thanks for that very complete answer. As I guess you have understood, I have to enable students to be Editors so that they can contribute their work in Pages, rather than Posts – with the understanding that they don’t alter the input from anyone else! It would be so very good to limit this privilege to specific pages. Thanks for explaining this so well.
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Is it strictly necessary for them to be able to edit the pages? Wouldn’t it work to have them add their contributions in the form of comments on the pages instead? Just a suggestion of an alternative you can consider.
And if the idea here is that you want their contributions listed on a certain page, another option is to make use of category pages – the students would publish their contributions as posts (which they can do as Authors), and then assign a category. Then there’s various methods you can use to have all posts with a particular category, display on the same page on the site:
https://wordpress.com/support/posts/categories/#category-pages-menus
If you just want a listing of posts, you’ll use the instructions in the first link. Or if you want some static content, like an introduction or instructions, on the page as well, or if you want to change the order in which contributions appear, you can try one of the other two methods.
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Wow! Of course – that is a way to go. Categorised pages. Thanks. I will see now if I can set that up. It could be almost a perfect solution. I will provide some feedback. Thanks again.
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