WP Post ACL

A simple way to control who can edit WordPress posts or pages.

Adds an Edit Permissions metabox to the post edit page, where you can select which users can edit the post.

Only applies to users of role editor.

Custom Post Types

You can apply ACL rules to custom post types too. Just define your custom post type in wp-config.php like this:

define( 'ACL_POST_TYPES', serialize( [ 'post', 'page', 'my-cpt' ] ) );

Screenshots

Edit Permissions as administrator on post edit page

Installation

The Composer Way (preferred)

Install the plugin via Composer

composer require anttiviljami/wp-post-acl

Activate the plugin

wp plugin activate wp-post-acl

The Old Fashioned Way

This plugin is available on the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

You can also install the plugin by directly uploading the zip file as instructed below:

1. Download the plugin
2. Upload to the plugin to /wp-content/plugins/ via the WordPress plugin uploader or your preferred method
3. Activate the plugin