Permissions Settings

The Permissions tab controls how many pastes users can create per hour, and shows the WordPress Abilities registered by SnipShare.

Navigate to SnipShare → Settings → Permissions.

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Rate Limiting

Paste Rate Limit

Maximum number of new pastes, including forks, a single member can create within a 60-minute window. Moderators (admins and editors by default) are exempt; see the snipshare_limits_exempt filter.

• Default: 20 pastes per hour
• Range: 1–1000

When a user hits the rate limit, the REST API returns a 429 Too Many Requests response and the create form shows an error message.

Rate limiting uses WordPress transients stored per user.

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Who Can Do What

SnipShare registers 5 abilities with the WordPress Abilities API under the snipshare category. Each one follows a WordPress capability, so it works with every role, including customer and member roles added by WooCommerce, membership and community plugins. The Permissions tab shows the current mapping.

Ability	What it allows	Granted by	Who has it by default
snipshare/create-paste	Create pastes	read	Every logged-in member
snipshare/fork-paste	Fork pastes	read	Every logged-in member
snipshare/manage-paste	Edit and delete own pastes	read	Every logged-in member
snipshare/create-collection	Create and manage collections	read	Every logged-in member
snipshare/moderate	Work the Moderation queue, edit or trash any paste	moderate_comments	Editors and administrators

Changing the mapping

Developers can change which capability grants an ability with the snipshare_ability_map filter, for example to let only authors and above create pastes. See Hooks & Filters.

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Notes

• Guest (non-logged-in) users cannot create, edit, delete, fork, or star pastes regardless of ability settings.
• Paste visibility (public/unlisted/private) is enforced separately from ability checks.
• The snipshare/moderate ability grants the user access to the Moderation admin page and the ability to trash any paste regardless of ownership.