Hi phoenixobia,
When you created this new user–what role are they (admin, editor, subscriber)? What user are you comparing them against? (an admin, subscriber or other)?
Administrative users have access to much more functionality than subscribers intentionally.
As for the “upgrade to featured”, you can do this a different way. Only admins have access to that on the dashboard (because it’s often a paid feature, and allowing users to do this on their own would be problematic since they could get it for free, right?)
If you want anyone to upgrade to featured and you don’t want to charge them, you can turn on Featured/Sticky Listings and set the price for upgrade to 0.00.
After that, you’ll want to require registration for users to post listings. When the user is logged in, they can see an “Upgrade” button on their listings when they view it from the front end. Since you aren’t charging for it now, they can automatically upgrade it.
However, if you’re allowing this for everyone, it ultimately defeats the point of having sticky/featured listings–these get sorted to the top of the list, and if everyone upgrades, then nobody’s listings stand out, making it a moot point.
Can I ask what you goal is here in doing this?
I created a new user role using the “members” plugin and set it to have access to only certain capabilities.
I, as the developer of the site want to be the only person who has all the capabilities as the top administrator but I want my client to be able to manage content of the site including the payment but not the other settings such as plugins and others.
It is a necessity to have some options under settings to have control over user capabilities. A lot of plugins have that.
I create a new user role for my sites as “Site Admin” and I use another plugin to customize the admin area for that role so that person can manage the content and website. But I need to decide which parts of the admin they should have access to.
For example I would want them to be able to export the entries as a CVS file under the Directory admin but I don’t want them to see the other menu items under the directory admin. It’s not possible now because that option is not available for non administrator users and I don’t want to give administrative role to anyone but me.
Hope I’m being clear.
Thanks
Hi Phoenixobia,
OK–have you tried something like Adminimize (a WP plugin)? You can make your clients full admins, but limit what they can actually see on the admin dashboard. That would allow you to do what you want above for #1.
I am using “WP Admin UI Customize” which works great but If I cannot limit access per user, it only does that for the user roles so if I limit access to certain parts of the site for Administrator, it will affect me too.
Adminimize is not compatible with my site.
I’ve already opened a topic a while ago but the issue was not solved.
Thanks
Hmmm. I’m not familiar with that new one. If they only support role-based, that’s actually worse than Adminimize, as they support user-based access.
BD doesn’t have a way to work around this–we would rely on other plugins that do these things for us (it’s hard to try to do everything inside one plugin in the WP ecosystem so we leverage other plugins to help).
Yes, thanks.
I don’t know why Adminimize doesn’t work on my site.
I’ve disabled all plugins and themes but no luck.
“WP Admin UI Customize” is very user friendly and I think is very organized. The user-based access however is a paid add-on that costs $30 something.
Anyway, Thanks for the response.
You’re welcome. Sorry that I couldn’t offer some other alternative here.
