{"id":52,"date":"2013-11-11T23:05:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T23:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justinandco.com\/fletcherfamilyjustin\/?p=52"},"modified":"2014-03-26T14:06:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T14:06:45","slug":"role-based-help-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justinandco.com\/justinsblog\/role-based-help-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Role Based Help Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Taking Notes” – By Krissy.Venosdale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have published my ‘Role Based Help Notes’ wordpress plugin to the wordpress community to help groups work together in activities and content where logged in users of a wordpress site are already allocated role(s). The plugin basically allows you to quickly create helpful guides\/content for any defined user role and opens up the Content Management Site (CMS) capability for your site.\u00a0 This lends itself to help you talor the helpful guides\/content to each separate role and allows the group to update and maintain the content.<\/p>\n

As all people in history benefit from standing on the shoulders of giants in their field so this plugin is no different it has been given an “Extension” section to provide a quick and easy route to installing plugins that compliment Help Notes just choose those you want if not already installed on your site.\u00a0 All this is possible with TGM-Plugin-Activation<\/a> (by Thomas Griffin<\/a> and Gary Jones<\/a>.) an amazingly useful way to bundle plugins into your themes, or as I have here a plugin!<\/p>\n

The plugin uses custom post types for user roles. This allows users, with a specific role, the ability to create and edit their own ‘help notes’ providing a private set of notes for use. It can be used for anything else that fits with that role (e.g. creating minutes-of-meetings notes etc…).
\nTo add new roles to the basic wordpress roles (Administrator, Editor, Subscriber ..etc) you will need to use another plugin refer to Roles_and_Capabilities<\/a> and Resources.. Plugins. You can then use one of these plugins (e.g. User Role Editor<\/a>) to allocate users to multiple roles.<\/p>\n

So if you want to quickly give a group a private area to share and post ideas\/notes ..<\/p>\n

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  1. Create a new role.<\/li>\n
  2. Add users to the role.<\/li>\n
  3. Enable the Help Notes from the settings.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A global ‘General Help Notes’ type is also available which is not tided to a specific role, this has the same access\/capabilities as the standard wordpress ‘post’ type for read\/write access.<\/p>\n

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