First, ordinary users (subscribers) are blocked from accessing just about everything in wp-admin. Subscribers get a truncated Dashboard and can access their ‘Profile’ page. That’s it.
You can redirect users on login– one method is a simple core hack but I’ve done this with a hook as well, wp_login maybe (can’t remember)– but if you are generating an editable profile form outside the wp-admin directory I’d worry about security even more than I’d worry about it if it were inside wp-admin. The built in profile stuff should be buttoned down decently well, at least.
You can also reformat your wp-admin to look more like your blog front end, though not exactly like most likely. Look into ‘admin themes‘.
It still shows Counterize 2 stats, I want that to be saved for only our advertisers. How can I block that?
The dashboard widget, you mean? That would be in the Counterize 2 plugin. Look for add_action('activity_box_end', 'counterize_dashboard'); in counterize.php about line 1367. You’ll need to put a switch around that so that only those users of some certain level or better (whatever your advertisers are) can see it.
what exactly would I insert?
? Can you help, I am not that great with code?
Replace the line mentioned above with :
global $userdata;
if (!in_array('subscriber',array_keys($userdata->wp_capabilities))) {
add_action('activity_box_end', 'counterize_dashboard');
}
}
This will cause the function to not print the stats for anyone who is ‘subscriber’ status. Everyone else will see it.
Hmm, that didnt work. Here is that part of my code what exactly do I replace this all with?
{
# Set it up... - add to Dashboard and options-page.
add_action('activity_box_end', 'counterize_dashboard');
add_submenu_page('edit.php',__('Counterize II'), __('Counterize II'), 8, __FILE__, 'counterize_manage_page');
add_options_page('Counterize II Options', 'Counterize II', 8, basename(__FILE__), 'counterize_options_page');
}
Looks like I pasted in an extra }.
{
# Set it up... - add to Dashboard and options-page.
global $userdata;
if (!in_array('subscriber',array_keys($userdata->wp_capabilities))) {
add_action('activity_box_end', 'counterize_dashboard');
}
add_submenu_page('edit.php',__('Counterize II'), __('Counterize II'), 8, __FILE__, 'counterize_manage_page');
add_options_page('Counterize II Options', 'Counterize II', 8, basename(__FILE__), 'counterize_options_page');
}
That is only going to exclude ‘subscribers’ though. You will have to modify it to exclude other, or different, roles.
It worked. I was also accidently “Updating Links” in Dream Weaver which I guess is not good to do.
Thanks.
