Shamim's Plugins

Hi again,

If you tell me where I should look in the database in order to check whether I have been locked, there’s no problem. I’m a former system engineer, you can get technical.

Patrick

The problem suddenly appeared on another thread where I had already posted three time. Now, I can’t post any new message.See attached screen capture. The error message is in french and means : “You have not the permission to send an answer to this message”.

Patrick

Thanks Shamim,

This appears to work correctly and I no longer need to hide some menus from non admins. I also removed the page edit capabilities from the author role and this didn’t seem to cause trouble.

This is a simple approach : all the users who can post may manage the FEPM groups. This is not the same as controlling this with a custom capability but this is enough for me for the moment.

Best regards.

Patrick

Hi Shamim,

OK. I got it working but with some additional efforts. Here are the steps to follow. This can possibly help others…

1. Create a custom capability. In my case manage_fepm_groups.

2. Assign this capability to all roles you want to be able to manage groups without having access to the full FEPM management system.

3. Add the following code to functions.php ::


add_filter( 'register_post_type_args', function( $args, $post_type ){
if( 'fep_group' == $post_type ){
$args['show_in_menu'] = true;
}
return $args;
}, 10, 2);

add_filter( 'fep_admin_cap', function( $admin_cap ){
return 'manage_fepm_groups';
});


4. Now all roles having the manage_fepm_groups capability (in my case admins, editors and authors) have 2 FEPM related menus in their dashboard : Front End PM Pro (full management options without the All Groups entry) and Groups (Group management). This obviously not what we want.

5. Use an admin menu editor (I use Menu Editor) to make all the entries of the Front End PM PRO menu inaccessible to non admins. In Menu Editor this can be done by adding for each entry an additional extra capability that will be mandatory to access these menu entries. I entered manage_options in this field and saved the menu changes.

After that, the Front End PM PRO menu disappeared for authors and editors but was still there for admins (who are keeping the All Groups menu anyway which is indispensable because it is no longer there in the Front End PM PRO menu). Authors and Editors are now able to manage groups.

Well, I got what I wanted but this was a little bit awkward, to say the least 🙂 .

Thanks anyway for putting me on the right track. But I think that the possibility to give access to group management to non admins should be built-in.

Greeting from Fontainebleau, France.

Patrick

Hi again,

By the way, I have just noticed that users having the Editor role, do have the FEPM => All Groups menu in their dashboard. However, when clicking on All Groups, access is denied. So, it seems that giving access to All Groups to editors was anticipated but not really implemented.

I didn’t see this before because I’m essentially working on the Author role. No user has the editor role for the moment (except a test account).

Patrick

Hi Shamim,

Thanks for the code. However, I’m afraid this will not be enough.

I have created a custom capability (manage_fepm_groups), gave it to the author role and used it in the code you provided. The FEPM menu doesn’t even appear in their dashboard.

This can be fixed by giving the authors the ‘page’ capability but even then, the access to edit.php?post_type=fep_group is not allowed.

I have seen that the manage_options capability is hard-coded everywhere in the code.So, I think that giving access to the All Groups page to authors and editors will require modifying this code directly. Something I don’t want to do for obvious reasons.

Patrick

Hi,

OK. The “send message to “admin” thing is a bug. If I add only one new admin, it doesn’t appear as a possible choice. If I add a second one, the first one appears as a choice in the list but not the second and so on…

Thanks in advance for fixing this.

Patrick