Purple Hub: Overview of roles & rights
As the Purple Hub is based on WordPress, the CMS comes with preset roles out of the box. Keeping our publishing users in mind, Purple has 3 additional roles that cater to the level of responsibilities assumed in the publishing business. These are the roles that our users must use while interacting with our product as our features will not work otherwise. The Administrator role can set and manage the capabilities and permissions for all users through the 'Capabilities' menu in the sidebar.
By default, the Purple Hub configures capabilities for the three roles below:
- Purple Editor
- Purple Managing Editor
- Administrator (Standard WordPress Role)
Purple Editor is the standard role for newly added Hub users with access to a Team in the Purple Manager. After their first login to the Purple Hub, an Administrator can assign them a new role.
Purple Editors focus on tasks related to creating, editing, and publishing content and are allowed to:
- create, edit, and publish content and media,
- edit content of others, as well as already published and private content,
- manage categories,
- delete their own posts and content and that of others, including published and private content,
- edit issues and collections,
- manage links, moderate comments, insert unfiltered HTML, and upload files.
Purple Editors are allowed to:
- do everything the Purple Editor role can do
and to:
- bulk publish content
- bulk publish taxonomies
- create/edit/delete editorial workflows
In summary, the role of the Purple Managing Editor is focused on tasks that serve to create, edit, and publish content and tasks that are necessary for the initial (content-wise) setup of a project.
Administrators can do everything the Purple Managing Editor can, plus:
- Manage all WordPress Core capabilities
- Plugin Capabilities – PublishPress Authors
- manage layouts
- manage custom fields
- edit post authors
- Manage PublishPress capabilities
- Plugin Capabilities – Purple Capabilities
- edit issues
- edit collections
- bulk publish content
- bulk publish taxonomies
- purple RSS
- Additional Capabilities
- assign/delete/edit/manage feed blacklist terms
- assign/delete/edit/manage feed item terms
- assign/delete/edit/manage feed source terms
- assign/delete/edit/manage feed template terms
- create/delete/edit/view/read NC references even published and from others/private
- publish NC references
- delete/edit/read feed blacklists even published and from others/private
- publish feed blacklists
- delete/edit feed items even published and from others/private
- publish feed items
- delete/edit/read feed sources even published and from others/private
- publish feed sources
- delete/edit/read feed template even published and from others/private
- publish feed templates
- delete/edit feed templates even private
- manage feed settings
- manage custom Facebook feed options
- manage Instagram feed options
- ow edit/abort/create/delete/download/view workflow, and its history
- ow duplicate post
- ow export/import/skip/submit to workflow
- ow make revision and from others
- ow reassign task
- ow sign off step
- ow view others inbox
- ow view reports
- wpseo manage options
In summary, in the default configuration, Administrators are allowed to perform every task within the CMS except:
- wpseo bulk edit
- wpseo edit advanced metadata
- view site health checks
If you are an Administrator and want these capabilities, you can add them to your role.