Redirection and User Roles

davide
(@davidemetupit)

11 years, 7 months ago
Hi!
your plugin is great, I use it every day,
I began to need to delegate my work on redirects to someone else, so I wrote this piece of code:
```
add_action( 'admin_init', 'add_theme_caps');
function add_theme_caps() {
    // gets the author role
    $role = get_role( 'administrator' );

    // This only works, because it accesses the class instance.
    $role->add_cap( 'redirection_manage_redirects' );
}
```
and I edited redirection.php at:

add_management_page( __( "Redirection", 'redirection' ), __( "Redirection", 'redirection' ), "administrator", basename( __FILE__ ), array( &$this, "admin_screen" ) );

in:

add_management_page( __( "Redirection", 'redirection' ), __( "Redirection", 'redirection' ), "redirection_manage_redirects", basename( __FILE__ ), array( &$this, "admin_screen" ) );

So I can now use User Role Editor to edit permissions, using the default behavior if it is not installed,

hoping it will be useful,
Bye!

Davide

https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

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Phil
(@philnelsonweb)

11 years, 7 months ago
Thanks Davide. Your info helped me give permission to a non-administrator to manage redirects. My slightly different approach:

The add_management_page() function you mentioned (in redirection.php) appears to filter the 3rd parameter ($capability) since v2.3.5:
```
apply_filters( 'redirection_role', 'administrator' )
```
I used this filter in my theme files to enable certain users to manage redirects (i.e., users with a custom edit_redirects capability I created with the User Role Editor plugin):
```
add_filter('redirection_role', 'my_redirection_role');
function my_redirection_role($role) {
  return 'edit_redirects';
}
```
Then with the Admin Menu Editor plugin I set the “Required capability” for the Tools -> Redirection menu to edit_redirects.

Now users with the edit_redirects capability can access the redirects management page. But… their changes won’t save. I’m guessing the Redirections plugin author would want to apply the above redirection_role filter again in the init() function near the top of ajax.php:
```
function init() {
  // if ( current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ) {
  if ( current_user_can( apply_filters( 'redirection_role', 'administrator' ) ) ) {
```
After making that edit, my edit_redirects capable user can fully manage redirects.

Thanks John Godley, for a great plugin!
Thread Starter davide
(@davidemetupit)

11 years, 7 months ago

Wow! Great!
I analize and copy your solution 🙂 🙂

Thread Starter davide
(@davidemetupit)

11 years, 7 months ago

:O :O Author silenty replied to my request, I didn’t understand 🙂 🙂

Thank you guy, I appreciate it!!

Davide

Phil
(@philnelsonweb)

11 years, 7 months ago

Thanks for your work on this, Davide!

Phil
(@philnelsonweb)

11 years, 6 months ago

My notes above applied to version 2.3.6 of the plugin. I presume this functionality will be included in the next version because the functionality is already in the github version (handled in a pull request even before my notes above).

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