Plugins for Admins

the link below will give you a function to determine whether a logged in user is of admin level or not. if so, the function will return true, otherwise, will return false. should be able to figure out from there. if not, let us know.

http://csstyle.pastebin.com/7aMQpRya

you’ll need to edit the plugin manually. are you familiar with php and the structure of a plugin?

but if someone tells you what to do, you wont learn, and that’s the whole point of the forums 😉

that being said.

check out this page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type. it’s information about the function register_post_type, which you will see at the top of the q-and-a.php file. use the ‘show_in_menu’ and the function provided earlier to create a conditional for display the tab.

or, you could use a role manager plugin, and create a role specifically for the qa post type, and give only admins capabilities to add and edit that post type.

oh it is possible to do what you want, i just didnt want to give the answer away from the start. we can make it work with this plugin, if you need to use that plugin.

ok. open q-and-a.php, find in the function definition of create_qa_post_types the call to function register_post_type. you’ll see an array, with labels ‘labels’, ‘public’, ‘show_ui’, etc. go to the line starting with ‘supports’ (line 57), and add a comma to the end. add a new line, and copy and paste the code below into the blank line (now line 58).

'show_in_menu' => (is_admin_login() ? true : false)

when you’re done, the function call should look like this:

register_post_type( 'qa_faqs',
		array(
			'labels' => array(
				'name' => __( 'FAQs' ),
				'singular_name' => __( 'FAQ' ),
				'edit_item'	=>	__( 'Edit FAQ'),
				'add_new_item'	=>	__( 'Add FAQ')
			),
			'public' => true,
			'show_ui' => true,
			'capability_type' => 'post',
			'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'faq', 'with_front' => false ),
			'taxonomies' => array( 'FAQs '),
			'supports' => array('title','editor'),
			'show_in_menu' => (is_admin_login() ? true : false)
		)
	);

make sure you add the function i provided above to the plugin at the top, or in your theme’s functions.php. also note, that if you upgrade the plugin, you will have to make this change again (tho it may be different, seeing as how there are usually changes to the code when an upgrade is available).

hope that helps.