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1. tpflanz
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Hi,

   Love the plugin!

   I recently added the User Role Editor plugin to allow my site's Editors to edit user profiles. However, even though I changed the Editor's edit_users capabilities, the User Avatar does not appear at all when viewing a user profile in the backend.

   Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks!

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-avatar/

2. Vladimir Garagulya
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Thanks.

   I will check the issue with user-avatar and return with my conclusion this week.

3. Vladimir Garagulya
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   User Avatar plugin shows user avatar in user profile in 2 cases:
   1) current user is profile owner
   2) user is super admin for this blog.
   if(($profile->ID == $current_user->ID || is_super_admin($current_user->ID))) {
   is_super_admin() function in wp-includes/capabilities.php checks if user is super-admin for network in case of multi-site installation or if user has 'delete_users' capability for single WordPress installation.

   Thus, if you work under multi-site WordPress your editor should be super-admin, or add him 'delete_users' capability for stand-alone WordPress configuration.

4. tpflanz
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Vladimir,

   Thanks. Works great.

   Travis

5. lifelikeneek
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   tpflanz and Vladimir,

   Thanks for this post, it made finding the code I needed to edit extremely easy. I am running a multisite installation that I need non-super admin users to be able to edit users on one specific site. To achieve this I have granted them edit_users capability via the User Role Editor as well as some hackery elsewhere.

   Why doesn't User Avatar allow users with edit_user privileges the ability to change other users avatars? It's easy to code.

   Instead of this in user-avatar.php:
   if(($profile->ID == $current_user->ID || is_super_admin($current_user->ID)))

   I changed it to this:
   if(($profile->ID == $current_user->ID || ! current_user_can(‘edit_user’, $current_user) || is_super_admin($current_user->ID)))

   Now I know this is not recommended because it'll break on the next update but I need the feature. Can either of you think of a better way to do this than granting the users Super Admin rights?

6. tpflanz
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   lifelikeneek,

   In User Role Editor, you simply need to give the Editor delete_users capability so they can change the avatar for each user.

   Note: This will also allow editors to be able to delete a user, but most likely, that would not be an issue.

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