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Can you put a post creation limit on your WordPress users?
Another time to limit post creation in WordPress is when you have a membership site and each membership level allows a specific amount of posts per week or month. This makes it easy to keep your members within the limits of their membership level. Those running a directory website may want to limit post creation, as well.
When to restrict access to custom post types?
The most common situation I’ve run into is a particular user (or group of users) needs the ability to manage specific custom post types but shouldn’t have the ability to alter the rest of the site.
How to limit the number of posts that WP _ query gets?
When you run a custom query with WP_Query and set the limit to get only 5 posts per page, only 5 posts will be retrieved by the query and that query will only hold 5 posts, BUT for the sake of pagination, WP_Query still runs through the whole database and counts all the posts that matches the criteria of the query.
How to create custom post types in WordPress?
If you’re not familiar with the register_post_type function check out the Codex. This argument allows us to pass in the read, edit and delete capabilities. Typically you’d see ‘post’ or ‘page’ showing up in this list, but we’re looking to create our own specific capabilities so we’ll just create our own.
When do you need to limit the number of posts on a blog?
There are several use-cases where you may want to limit the number of post created by authors for specific period. The simplest scenario can be if you run a multi-author blog, then you may want to limit the number of posts each author can submit per day, per week, or even by month.
How many posts do you need without pagination?
You have 20 posts belonging to the default post type post. You only need the latest 5 posts without pagination. Your query looks like this The impact of this extra work is minimal on sites with only a few posts, but this can gt expensive if you are running a site with hundreds or thousands of posts.