bruceleeon

I have every plugin disabled (except petition), still a no go on admin. I am using the theme Sahifa, if I switch to twenty ten, it works. Going to look into functions.php and remove all.

Actually, I think I figured it out. I added:

function disable_authors_publish_cap() {
        // Get author role object
        $author = get_role( 'editor' );
        // Remove the post publishing capability
        $author->remove_cap( 'publish_posts' );
    }
    add_action( 'init', 'disable_authors_publish_cap' );

to my functions.php after the EXTEND functions for Edit flow. It now looks like this:

/**
 * Hide the "Publish" button until a post is ready to be published
 */
function efx_hide_publish_button_until() {

    if ( ! function_exists( 'EditFlow' ) )
        return;

    if ( ! EditFlow()->custom_status->is_whitelisted_page() )
        return;

    // Show the publish button if the post has one of these statuses
    $show_publish_button_for_status = array(
            'ready-for-publish',
            // The statuses below are WordPress' public statuses
            'future',
            'publish',
            'schedule',
            'private',
        );
    if ( ! in_array( get_post_status(), $show_publish_button_for_status ) ) {
        ?>
        <style>
            #publishing-action { display: none; }
        </style>
        <?php
    }
}
add_action( 'admin_head', 'efx_hide_publish_button_until' );
/**
 * Limit custom statuses based on user role
 * @param array $custom_statuses The existing custom status objects
 * @return array $custom_statuses Our possibly modified set of custom statuses
 */
function efx_limit_custom_statuses_by_role( $custom_statuses ) {

    $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
    switch( $current_user->roles[0] ) {
        // Only allow a contributor to access specific statuses from the dropdown
        case 'author':
            $permitted_statuses = array(
                    'pending',
					'pitch',
                    'draft',
                    'in-progress',
                );
            // Remove the custom status if it's not whitelisted
            foreach( $custom_statuses as $key => $custom_status ) {
                if ( !in_array( $custom_status->slug, $permitted_statuses ) )
                    unset( $custom_statuses[$key] );
            }
            break;
    }
    return $custom_statuses;
}
add_filter( 'ef_custom_status_list', 'efx_limit_custom_statuses_by_role' );
/**
 * Remove Publish Capabilities for Editors
 */
    function disable_authors_publish_cap() {
        // Get author role object
        $author = get_role( 'editor' );
        // Remove the post publishing capability
        $author->remove_cap( 'publish_posts' );
    }
    add_action( 'init', 'disable_authors_publish_cap' );

However, is this the best way to accomplish what I am after or is there a better way?

It appears to be working now…

you can bypass all optimizations by using the following URL

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I also rolled back your plugin version… almost works.

Rolled back…

All caching is disabled

Rocketscript? That may be from cloudflare optimizations. I will turn on development mode to turn off all optimizations.