current_user_can() WordPress Function

Checks whether a given request has permission to read block patterns.

Checks if a given request has access to read a single theme global styles config.

Checks whether a given request has permission to read block patterns.

Checks whether the current user has read permission for the endpoint.

Checks if a given request has access to read a single theme global styles config.

Checks if a global style can be read.

Checks if a global style can be edited.

Get the link relations available for the post and current user.

Checks whether a given request has permission to read remote URLs.

Checks whether the current user has read permission for the endpoint.

Checks whether a given request has permission to read menu locations.

Checks if a given request has access to read a menu location.

Checks whether a given request has permission to export.

Sets the current WP_Query to return auto-draft posts.

Adds the “Edit site” link to the Toolbar.

Handles updating settings for the current Block widget instance.

Performs a permissions check for managing widgets.

Checks if the user has permissions to make the request.

Get the link relations available for the post and current user.

Checks if the user has permissions to make the request.

Checks whether a given request has permission to view the local block pattern directory.

Checks whether the user can read widget types.

Renders an admin notice when a plugin was deactivated during an update.

Override the result of the post password check for REST requested posts.

Adds a link to the active theme for users who have proper permissions.

Checks if a given request has access to read the theme.

Checks if a theme can be read.

Determine whether post should always use a plain permalink structure.

Ajax handler sends a password reset link.

Validates if the current user can request this REST endpoint.

Performs a permissions check for the request.

Checks if a given request has access to get application passwords.

Checks if a given request has access to get a specific application password.

Checks if a given request has access to create application passwords.

Checks if a given request has access to update application passwords.

Checks if a given request has access to delete all application passwords for a user.

Checks if a given request has access to delete a specific application password for a user.

Checks whether a given request has permission to install and activate plugins.

Handle updating a plugin’s status.

Checks if a given request has access to get a specific plugin.

Checks if the given plugin can be viewed by the current user.

Checks if a given request has access to upload plugins.

Checks if a given request has access to update a specific plugin.

Checks if a given request has access to delete a specific plugin.

Checks if a given request has access to get plugins.

Checks whether a given block type should be visible.

Checks if a given request has access to editing media.

Ajax handler to enable or disable plugin and theme auto-updates.

Ajax handler for creating missing image sub-sizes for just uploaded images.

Renders an admin notice in case some themes have been paused due to errors.

Test if wp_version_check is blocked.

Test if your site is serving content over HTTPS.

Renders an admin notice in case some plugins have been paused due to errors.

Ajax handler for site health check to get directories and database sizes.

Ajax handler for site health checks on server communication.

Ajax handler for site health checks on background updates.

Ajax handler for site health checks on loopback requests.

Ajax handler for site health check to update the result status.

Checks if a block can be read.

Checks if a given request has access to read the theme.

Checks if a given request has access to get autosaves.

Checks if a given request has access to read blocks.

Generate and return code editor settings.

Renders a “fake” meta box with an information message, shown on the block editor, when an incompatible meta box is found.

Registers the default post meta boxes, and runs the do_meta_boxes actions.

Get the link relations available for the post and current user.

Add a notice with a link to the guide when editing the privacy policy page.

Quick check if any privacy info has changed.

Ajax handler for exporting a user’s personal data.

Ajax handler for erasing personal data.

Retrieve custom fields for a term.

Set custom fields for a term.

Loads themes into the theme browsing/installation UI.

Checks locked changeset with heartbeat API.

Removes changeset lock when take over request is sent via Ajax.

Deletes a given auto-draft changeset or the autosave revision for a given changeset or delete changeset lock.

Handles request to trash a changeset.

Enqueue assets needed by the code editor for the given settings.

Handles updating settings for the current Custom HTML widget instance.

Render form template scripts.

An Underscore (JS) template for this panel’s content (but not its container).

An Underscore (JS) template for rendering this panel’s container.

Render a themes section as a JS template.

Attempts to edit a file for a theme or plugin.

Checks if current user can make a proxy oEmbed request.

Deletes a meta value for an object.

Updates multiple meta values for an object.

Updates a meta value for an object.

Determines if the current user is allowed to make the desired roles change.

Checks if a given request has access delete a user.

Checks if a given request has access create users.

Checks if a given request has access to update a user.

Permissions check for getting all users.

Retrieves all users.

Checks if a given request has access to read a user.

Checks if a given request has access to delete a revision.

Checks if a given request has access to get revisions.

Checks if a given request has access to create an attachment.

Checks whether a given post status should be visible.

Checks whether a given request has permission to read post statuses.

Checks if a given request has access to read and manage settings.

Checks if a request has access to create a term.

Checks if a request has access to update the specified term.

Checks if a request has access to delete the specified term.

Checks if a request has access to read terms in the specified taxonomy.

Checks if a request has access to read or edit the specified term.

Sanitizes and validates the list of post statuses, including whether the user can query private statuses.

Checks if a post can be read.

Checks if a post can be edited.

Checks if a post can be created.

Checks if a post can be deleted.

Determines validity and normalizes the given status parameter.

Checks whether current user can assign all terms sent with the current request.

Checks if a given request has access to update a post.

Checks if the user can access password-protected content.

Checks if a given request has access to create a post.

Checks if a given request has access to read posts.

Checks if a given request has access to a taxonomy.

Checks whether a given request has permission to read taxonomies.

Retrieves all public taxonomies.

Checks whether a given request has permission to read types.

Retrieves all public post types.

Retrieves a specific post type.

Checks if a comment can be edited or deleted.

Checks if the post can be read.

Checks if the comment can be read.

Prepares a single comment to be inserted into the database.

Checks if a given request has access to read the comment.

Checks if a given request has access to create a comment.

Creates a comment.

Checks if a given request has access to read comments.

Checks whether comment flooding is occurring.

Prints the markup for new menu items.

Sanitizes post IDs for posts created for nav menu items to be published.

Ajax handler for adding a new auto-draft post.

Validates setting values.

Outputs the HTML for a network’s “Edit Site” tabular interface.

Ajax handler for deleting a plugin.

Ajax handler for installing a theme.

Ajax handler for updating a theme.

Ajax handler for deleting a theme.

Ajax handler for installing a plugin.

Ajax handler for retrieving HTML for the featured image.

Checks if the user can refresh this partial.

Prints JavaScript settings for parent window.

Handles the submission of a comment, usually posted to wp-comments-post.php via a comment form.

Render the meta boxes preferences.

Ajax handler for saving the user’s WordPress.org username.

Ajax handler for removing inactive widgets.

Adds the “Customize” link to the Toolbar.

Encapsulate the logic for sticking a post and determining if the user has permission to do so

Constructor.

Ajax handler for loading available menu items.

Ajax handler for searching available menu items.

Generates and displays row action links.

Handles the checkbox column output.

Handles the title column output.

Handles the name column output.

Ajax handler for cropping an image.

Generates and displays row action links.

Generates and displays row action links.

Generates and displays row action links.

Handles the username column output.

Handles the parent column output.

Handles the checkbox column output.

Handles the title column output.

Gets dirty pre-sanitized setting values in the current customized state.

Render a JS template for theme display.

Refresh the parameters passed to the JavaScript via JSON.

Prints JS templates for the theme-browsing UI in the Customizer.

Ajax handler for updating a plugin.

Encapsulates the logic for Attach/Detach actions.

Returns the query variables for the current attachments request.

Ajax handler for destroying multiple open sessions for a user.

Ajax handler for adding custom background context to an attachment.

Checks required user capabilities and whether the theme has the feature support required by the panel.

Apply [embed] Ajax handlers to a string.

Ajax handler for setting the featured image for an attachment.

Handles PHP uploads in WordPress.

Prepares themes for JavaScript.

Retrieves the update link if there is a theme update available.

Retrieves list of WordPress theme features (aka theme tags).

Constructor.

Action to perform following a single theme update.

Action to perform following a plugin install.

Action to perform following a single theme install.

Action to perform following a single plugin update.

Checks if the current user has permissions to import new users.

Displays an admin notice to upgrade all sites after a core upgrade.

Constructor.

Checks lock status for posts displayed on the Posts screen.

Checks lock status on the New/Edit Post screen and refresh the lock.

Checks nonce expiration on the New/Edit Post screen and refresh if needed.

Displays WordPress version and active theme in the ‘At a Glance’ dashboard widget.

Displays update information for a plugin.

Displays update information for a theme.

Displays a welcome panel to introduce users to WordPress.

Determines the status we can perform on a plugin.

Displays plugin information in dialog box form.

Generates Publishing Soon and Recently Published sections.

Show Comments section.

Displays file upload quota on dashboard.

Adds a new dashboard widget.

Dashboard widget that displays some basic stats about the site.

The Quick Draft widget display and creation of drafts.

Outputs a row for the Recent Comments widget.

Registers dashboard widgets.

Determines whether the current user can access the current admin page.

Adds a top-level menu page.

Adds a submenu page.

Adds a submenu page to the Users/Profile main menu.

Validates active plugins.

Edit user settings based on contents of $_POST

Initializes the new feature pointers.

Adds hidden fields with the data for use in the inline editor for posts and pages.

Outputs the in-line comment reply-to form in the Comments list table.

Prints the form in the Custom Fields meta box.

Outputs an unordered list of checkbox input elements labelled with term names.

Retrieves a list of the most popular terms from the specified taxonomy.

Generate HTML for a single row on the users.php admin panel.

Check the current user’s permissions.

Retrieve an associative array of bulk actions available on this table.

Output the controls to allow user roles to be changed in bulk.

Displays the checkbox to scale images.

Retrieves HTML form for modifying the image attachment.

Handles form submissions for the legacy media uploader.

Returns the HTML of the sample permalink slug editor.

Saves a draft or manually autosaves for the purpose of showing a post preview.

Saves a post submitted with XHR.

Creates a new post from the “Write Post” form using $_POST information.

Adds post meta data defined in the $_POST superglobal for a post with given ID.

Renames $_POST data from form names to DB post columns.

Updates an existing post with values provided in $_POST.

Processes the post data for the bulk editing of posts.

Ajax handler for saving the attachment order.

Ajax handler for sending an attachment to the editor.

Ajax handler for getting revision diffs.

Ajax handler for getting themes from themes_api().

Ajax handler for saving a widget.

Ajax handler for uploading attachments

Ajax handler for image editing.

Ajax handler for setting the featured image.

Ajax handler for removing a post lock.

Ajax handler for getting an attachment.

Ajax handler for querying attachments.

Ajax handler for updating attachment attributes.

Ajax handler for saving backward compatible attachment attributes.

Ajax handler for adding a menu item.

Ajax handler for adding meta.

Ajax handler for adding a user.

Ajax handler for updating whether to display the welcome panel.

Ajax handler for retrieving menu meta boxes.

Ajax handler for menu locations save.

Ajax handler for menu quick searching.

Ajax handler for Quick Edit saving a post from a list table.

Ajax handler for quick edit saving for a term.

Ajax handler for saving the widgets order.

Ajax handler for adding a hierarchical term.

Ajax handler for deleting a comment.

Ajax handler for deleting a tag.

Ajax handler for deleting a link.

Ajax handler for deleting meta.

Ajax handler for deleting a post.

Ajax handler for sending a post to the Trash.

Ajax handler to delete a page.

Ajax handler to dim a comment.

Ajax handler for adding a link category.

Ajax handler to add a tag.

Ajax handler for getting a tagcloud.

Ajax handler for getting comments.

Ajax handler for replying to a comment.

Ajax handler for editing a comment.

Prepare revisions for JavaScript.

Ajax handler for tag search.

Ajax handler for compression testing.

Ajax handler for image editor previews.

Ajax handler for user autocomplete.

Displays custom fields form fields.

Displays link create form fields.

Outputs the ‘disabled’ message for the WordPress Link Manager.

Displays post submit form fields.

Displays attachment submit form fields.

Displays post tags form fields.

Displays post categories form fields.

Updates or inserts a link using values provided in $_POST.

Outputs the hidden row displayed when inline editing

Outputs the hidden row displayed when inline editing

Constructor.

Update a comment with values provided in $_POST.

Gets attachment uploaded by Media Manager, crops it, then saves it as a new object. Returns JSON-encoded object details.

Given an attachment ID for a header image, updates its “last used” timestamp to now.

Given an attachment ID for a header image, unsets it as a user-uploaded header image for the active theme.

Display first step of custom header image page.

Display the page based on the current step.

Execute custom header modification.

Display the upgrade plugins form.

Display the upgrade themes form.

Display the custom background page.

Display menu.

Returns whether the current user has the specified capability for a given site.

Enqueues scripts for customize controls.

Prints JavaScript settings.

Prints JavaScript settings for preview frame.

Handles customize_save WP Ajax request to save/update a changeset.

Starts preview and customize theme.

Constructor.

Display the Registration or Admin link.

Adds all KSES input form content filters.

Sets up most of the KSES filters for input form content.

Retrieves an array of posts based on query variables.

Create a file in the upload folder with given content.

Retrieve list of allowed mime types and file extensions.

Handles updating settings for the current Text widget instance.

Display the RSS entries in a list.

Checks required user capabilities and whether the theme has the feature support required by the section.

Retrieves the edit user link.

Retrieves the adjacent post.

Retrieves the edit post link for post.

Retrieves the delete posts link for post.

Retrieves the edit comment link.

Displays the edit comment link with formatting.

Displays the edit bookmark link.

Displays the edit bookmark link anchor content.

Retrieves the URL for editing a given term.

Displays or retrieves the edit term link with formatting.

Collect counts and UI strings for available updates

Adds the WordPress logo menu.

Adds the “My Account” item.

Adds the “My Account” submenu items.

Adds the “Site Name” menu.

Adds the “My Sites/[Site Name]” menu and all submenus.

Provides an edit link for posts and terms.

Adds “Add New” menu.

Adds edit comments link with awaiting moderation count bubble.

Adds appearance submenu items to the “Site Name” menu.

Validate user capabilities whether the theme supports the setting.

Retrieves formatted date timestamp of a revision (linked to that revisions’s page).

Retrieves formatted date timestamp of a revision (linked to that revisions’s page).

Displays a list of a post’s revisions.

Prepares an attachment post object for JS, where it is expected to be JSON-encoded and fit into an Attachment model.

Retrieve the post SQL based on capability, author, and type.

Insert or update a post.

Return the cache key for wp_count_posts() based on the passed arguments.

Count number of posts of a post type and if user has permissions to view.

Redirects incoming links to the proper URL based on the site url.

Retrieve post categories.

Sets categories for a post.

Sets a post’s publish status to ‘publish’.

Edit a post.

Retrieve post.

Retrieve list of recent posts.

Retrieve the list of categories on a given blog.

Uploads a file, following your settings.

Retrieve the post titles of recent posts.

Retrieve list of all categories on blog.

Retrieve user’s data.

Retrieve post.

Retrieve list of recent posts.

Creates new post.

Edit a post.

Remove a post.

Create a new post.

Retrieve blog options value from list.

Update blog options.

Retrieve a media item by ID

Retrieves a collection of media library items (or attachments)

Retrieves a list of post formats used by the site.

Retrieves a post type

Retrieves a post types

Retrieve revisions for a specific post.

Restore a post revision

Retrieve blogs that user owns.

Delete a comment.

Retrieve comments.

Edit comment.

Create new comment.

Retrieve all of the comment status.

Retrieve comment count.

Retrieve post statuses.

Retrieve page statuses.

Retrieve page templates.

Retrieve Pages.

Delete page.

Edit page.

Retrieve page list.

Retrieve authors list.

Get list of all tags

Create new category.

Remove category.

Retrieve category list.

Retrieve comment.

Retrieve posts.

Create a new term.

Edit a term.

Delete a term.

Retrieve a term.

Retrieve all terms for a taxonomy.

Retrieve a taxonomy.

Retrieve all taxonomies.

Retrieve a user.

Retrieve users.

Retrieve information about the requesting user.

Edit user’s profile.

Retrieve page.

Helper method for wp_newPost() and wp_editPost(), containing shared logic.

Delete a post for any registered post type.

Retrieve a post.

Retrieve the blogs of the user.

Retrieve custom fields for post.

Set custom fields for post.

Checks if the user can use this control.

Render the control’s content.

Displays form token for unfiltered comments.

Sanitizes a widget instance.

Updates widget settings asynchronously.

Initial loader.

Outputs the HTML for a single instance of the editor.