Title: Pro version changes affect all user roles
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Pro version changes affect all user roles

 *  Resolved [zkagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zkagen/)
 * (@zkagen)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pro-version-changes-affect-all-user-roles/)
 * Hi,
 * Trying to make changes only to the woocommerce shopmanager, but the changes affect
   all user roles, even my own administrator role.
 * Any idea why?
 * Thanks
    HC
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-menu-editor/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-menu-editor/)

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 *  Thread Starter [zkagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zkagen/)
 * (@zkagen)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pro-version-changes-affect-all-user-roles/#post-4880959)
 * Oups, I need to be more specific…
 * Hiding a menu item only affects the selected user group.
 * It is only when I move a menu item, that it affects all user gruops!
 *  Plugin Author [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/)
 * (@whiteshadow)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pro-version-changes-affect-all-user-roles/#post-4880969)
 * This is by design. Permissions can be role-specific, but all other changes (like
   reordering menu items) will affect all roles.
 *  Thread Starter [zkagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zkagen/)
 * (@zkagen)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pro-version-changes-affect-all-user-roles/#post-4881014)
 * Okay.
 * May I ask why you have chosen this to be so?
 * Btw. thanks for fast reply 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Janis Elsts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whiteshadow/)
 * (@whiteshadow)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pro-version-changes-affect-all-user-roles/#post-4881051)
 * There are two main reasons why it works like that:
 * 1) Having different menu titles, item order and so on for different roles is 
   _usually_ not necessary. This plugin has been available for several years now
   and only one or two people have ever mentioned they might need a feature like
   that.
 * 2) If all changes only affected the selected role by default, it would be harder
   to change something for all roles at once.
 * It would also make the interface more complicated. Right now each menu setting
   has two states: default value vs. custom value. With per-role settings, you’d
   need more states like “same value for all roles”, “custom value only for roles
   A and B” or “default value only for role C”.
 * Finally, I’m not sure there even exists a sensible way to implement role specific
   settings for things like menu item order. For example, lets say we have four 
   menu items in this order:
    A, B, C, D
 * Then we change the order for the “Editor” role like this:
    A, B, D, C
 * Then we switch back to “All” and move item A like this:
    B, C, A, D
 * How would that affect Editor’s menu item order? Should global or role settings
   take precedence, or should the be merged somehow? (How?)
 *  Thread Starter [zkagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zkagen/)
 * (@zkagen)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pro-version-changes-affect-all-user-roles/#post-4881132)
 * Hi Janis,
 * Thanks for the clarifications.
 * When I am building a system for a client, I just want it to be as simple as possible
   for the client.
 * So I build a more intuitive menu hierarchy for the client, although I my self
   are used to the standard hierarchy. Thant’s basically why I would like to be 
   able to have different appearances for different roles.
 * Thanks anyway 🙂
 * HC

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