Hack/plugin to adjust User Levels capabilities?

  • 3stripe

    (@3stripe)


    18 years, 4 months ago

    Hello folks!

    I want to adjust the way that certain user levels work, but can’t find any plugins that do what I want…

    For example, would it be possible to change WordPress so that Level 5 users:

    1. CAN edit stories by other users
    2. Could NOT see the ‘Links’ section
    3. Do NOT see ‘Advanced’ options when writing a post, even if this is the selected option in options-writing.php. (I need this because I’m using the meta image plugin from http://no.oneslistening.com/151)

    Would this be hard?!

    Cheers,

    3stripe

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  • Thread Starter 3stripe

    (@3stripe)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    Thinking more about point 3:

    You could write a plugin to find $user_level and then change the CSS for Level 5 users to hide the div containing the ‘Advanced’ options ????

    This poses the problem that the ‘Advanced’ options div doesn’t have a unique id… another hack required!

    Not sure if this would work as I’ve never done any mods like this…

    McShelby

    (@mcshelby)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    Because the user level implementation will change totally in the upcoming version of WP, I guess there will be not much intention by the plugin writers to write such a plugin from scratch now. I am not aware of any plugin doing this right now.

    Thread Starter 3stripe

    (@3stripe)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    Ok I worked out point 1, which means point 2 can be ignored 🙂

    My hack to allow users of level ‘xx’ to edit any other user’s posts… use with caution…

    Line 354 of functions-post.php:

    Change this :
    || ($author_data->user_level >= 10) ) {

    To:
    || ($author_data->user_level >= xx) ) {

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    See comment from hallsey about the above fix:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/52097#post-285417

    Thread Starter 3stripe

    (@3stripe)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    Haha well I tried my best, maybe Smultron gave me the wrong line number. It worked for me anyhow, the fix is even easier!

    (So guys, that shoulda been line 353, not 354)

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