Give LIVE! User Roles and Capabilities
WordPress Roles and Capabilities are great ways to control what Give users, donors, and others see in your Give Dashboard. We’ll discuss this in depth in September’s Give LIVE.
What if you want your account to see your donations, but not mess with posts and pages? What if you want your donors to be able to view gated content on your site? How do you do these things? The answer is with roles and capabilities. That’s what we’ll discuss in September’s Give LIVE!
Resources Discussed in this Episode
- What are User Roles and Capabilities? (WordPress Codex link: https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities)
- What Roles does Give come with (Give Docs link: https://givewp.com/documentation/core/give-user-roles/ )
- How can we do things with Give Roles and Capabilities
- Per Form User Role Assigner Plugin: ( Download link: https://github.com/mathetos/Give-Per-Form-User-Role-Assigner/archive/master.zip )
- User Role Editor Plugin to create custom roles and capabilities: ( WordPress.org link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/ )
- User Switching Plugin to easily switch between accounts for testing: ( WordPress.org link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-switching/ )
- Members Plugin for gating content per page/post : (WordPress.org link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/ )
Episode was live on September 13, 2017
October Topic: Leveling Up your Nonprofit Website
Our next event is Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. PST. We’ll discuss important and sometimes overlooked parts of your website that make a big impact on the level of trust your donors will have with your organization.
About the Author
Matt Cromwell
Matt is co-Founder of GiveWP and now Senior Director of Customer Experience at StellarWP. He’s passionate about helping WordPress product owners level up their marketing and monetization strategies. He’s the founder and a co-host of WP Product Talk and Glam that Plugin. Matt was born and raised in California, but lives now with his wife and four children in Germany.
