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1. whoaloic
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Hello,
   I try to change user permission in order that an editor could edit the "General Settings".
   I have given the editor the capability "manage_options" but in this case all the pages (writing, reading, etc.) are enabled for the editor.
   I then tried to edit the options-general.php file :
   at the beginnig, we have that : "if ( ! current_user_can( 'manage_options' ))".
   I tried to change as "if ( ! current_user_can( 'level_7' ) )" or "if ( ! current_user_can( 'administrator' ) || ! current_user_can( 'editor' ) )"

   But the editor can't get the "General Settings" page.
   Please I need help on it!

2. ChristiNi
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Hi whoaloic,

   You can add that capability in your functions.php file:

   <?php
      // get the the role object
      $editor = get_role('editor');
      // add $cap capability to this role object
      $editor->add_cap('manage_options');
   ?>

   Alternatively, you can use a plugin like this (one of many) to help you manage your users and their roles and capabilities:

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/

   Hope this helps

3. whoaloic
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hello,
   thank you for this answer.
   Yes I use "members" plugin and if I add "mange_options" to the editor role, the editor has access to all the submenus of Settings section.
   What I wanted to do is that only "General" submenu would be enable for the Editor. Particurlarly because I want the editor able to edit the site's description.

   So I have edited the wp-admin/menu.php file around line 80:
   

   $menu[80] = array( __('Settings'), 8, 'options-general.php', '', 'menu-top menu-icon-settings', 'menu-settings', 'div' );
   	$submenu['options-general.php'][10] = array(_x('General', 'settings screen'), 8, 'options-general.php');
   	$submenu['options-general.php'][15] = array(__('Writing'), 'manage_options', 'options-writing.php');

   I have change the capablity "manage_options" to capability related to level 8 (ediwhich match to my editor level).

   Then the editor got access to the General settings page but I met another issue: when I save the changes, I get the message : "Cheatin' Uh?"
   So I found that on wp-admin/options.php file there is that piece of code (line 27):
   

   $capability = 'manage_options';
   
   if ( empty($option_page) ) // This is for back compat and will eventually be removed.
   	$option_page = 'options';
   else
   	$capability = apply_filters( "option_page_capability_{$option_page}", $capability );
   
   if ( !current_user_can( $capability ) )
   	wp_die(__('Cheatin’ uh?'));

   I've just edit like that and what I wanted is working fine.

   $capability = 'manage_options';
   $level = 'level_8';
   
   if ( empty($option_page) ) // This is for back compat and will eventually be removed.
   	$option_page = 'options';
   else
   	$capability = apply_filters( "option_page_capability_{$option_page}", $capability );
   
   if ( !current_user_can( $level ) )
   	wp_die(__('Cheatin’ uh?'));

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