Title: Plugin Settings needed
Last modified: February 26, 2021

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# Plugin Settings needed

 *  [Avantart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/avantart/)
 * (@avantart)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-settings-needed/)
 * This plugin really needs a setting menue with the following options:
 * assign this plugin to x user role or x specified user
 * It is an absolute NoGo that there is no way to assign the plugin to f.e. editors.
   
   As it is now, we have to assign the Admin-Role to users just that they can use
   this feature.
 * There is no really officially confirmed way to assign the plugin to other rules.
   
   To insert code snippets into the functions.php of the theme is dangerous. My 
   clients changed the site theme and deleted the old theme. So all modifications
   were lost.
 * Admins and Editors are not programmers so it is absolutely wrong to have role
   permissions defined by them or “open all doors to destruction”
 * Flamingo is not a Hobby-Plugin, developed in some shady corner.
    Such a poor 
   configuration is not acceptable for the use in a real-world-context.

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 *  [Christian Sabo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelverbieger/)
 * (@pixelverbieger)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-settings-needed/#post-14587962)
 * Hi [@avantart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/avantart/) we had a similar
   use case and solved it 2 years ago.
 * Install and activate the plugin «User Role Editor» by Vladimir Garagulya
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/).
   You can use this plugin to set up a new role called e.g. «Flamingo readonly».
   This role needs just 3 permissions granted: _edit\_users_ and _read_ and _level\
   _0 (deprecated)_. Then, you can assign these role to your users (even in addition
   to other roles, IIRC).
 * > To insert code snippets into the functions.php of the theme is dangerous.
   >  
   > My clients changed the site theme and deleted the old theme. So all modifications
   > were lost.
 * To avoid this, you can take your code off your functions.php and put it in a 
   plugin. This way it can stay active while switching themes.
    [https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/intro/what-is-a-plugin/](https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/intro/what-is-a-plugin/)
   [https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-basics/header-requirements/](https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-basics/header-requirements/)
 * MU-Plugins even can’t be deactivated via Dashboard …
 * > [Must Use Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/article/must-use-plugins/)

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 * Last reply from: [Christian Sabo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelverbieger/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-settings-needed/#post-14587962)
 * Status: not a support question