WP Dashboard Access Denied

  • Stokie Worm

    (@chris_wareham)


    11 years, 11 months ago

    I have been trying for days to find a solution to this, from installing role capability plugins to finding a hack,

    For some strange reason no matter which theme i choose only admin can access the WP Dashboard, i need to be able to let all users to access the dashboard with my theme.

    Can anyone help me out with a hack or fix it for me please

    Regards Chris

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  • Chris Barrett

    (@cbarrett123)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    By default, only an admin has access to the dashboard. That’s for security reasons and to stop someone from accidentally (intentionally?) redesigning your site on you. For more information, please review: Roles_and_Capabilities

    Now, if you wanted to override that behavior you could add the specific capabilities to the specific role. For example, if you wanted to add the edit_theme_options ability to the author role, you could do so with the following function in a child theme’s functions.php file:

    function add_theme_capability() {
    // gets the author role
    $role = get_role( 'author' );

    // Allow the author to edit the theme options
    $role->add_cap( 'edit_theme_options' );
}
add_action( 'admin_init', 'add_theme_capability');

    For additional capabilities, please review the link I provided above.

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