Using Custom Post Types to Control Access

For our organisation we have information coming from a variety of sources. One of the primary reasons for moving to WordPress was to avoid the “Webmaster bottleneck” and allow multiple people to contributed content to the site. The challenge was to give these contributors as much control over their particular areas as possible while limiting there access to other parts of the site. The architecture that was developed uses Custom Post Types and User Roles to effectively divide up the site into a number of different areas, each with a role that has control over the content in that area.

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