must be one of your plugins adds that – does it have a configuration section?
Likely only an admin sees that link
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Currently my Admin does not display “Mail Subscribers” for Subscriber or Contributer, but Author and above shows “Mail Subscribers”. Is this the default set-up?
I would like to restrict Author and below from using this feature or remove it all together. I could try to use the Role Manager plug-in to manipulate the role levels or create a custom role to replace Author, but before trying that I was just curious if there is an easier way.
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I experimented with this more using the Role Manager. The ability to Mail Subscribers seems to be attached to the Publish Posts capability. If you can’t publish a post then you can’t mail a subscriber. If anyone else has any ideas please let me know. Thanks!
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Just an update – this is a feature of the Subscribe2 plug-in, not part of the main WordPress install. Unfortunately the plug-in doesn’t provide any settings to turn this off. I am going to try and manually adjust the plugin – at least I don’t have to change any WP core files!
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One last note for anyone who wants to know how to fix this. I used the Role Manager plug-in and created a new Capability called Mail Subscribers. In the Subscribe2 plug-in file (subscribe2.php) on line 245 I changed the parameter “publish_posts” to “mail_subscribers”. The final version looks like this:
add_submenu_page('post-new.php', __('Mail Subscribers', 'subscribe2'), __('Mail Subscribers', 'subscribe2'), "mail_subscribers", __FILE__, array(&$this, 'write_menu'));
Now I can pick which roles have the ability to Mail Subscribers. Hope this helps someone out there!
as an update the line has moved to 124 in the “Hook the menu” section. Where do you edit the mail_subscribers option in the users profile?
Ok found this. If you put this on in the hook section it will setup the administrator and editor to have access. Otherwise you can put it in a spot and deactivate and activate the plugin to have it run once.
Note: Author role is ‘author’
// Set ‘mail_subscribers’ Capabilities To Administrators and Editors
$role = get_role(‘administrator’);
if(!$role->has_cap(‘mail_subscribers’)) {
$role->add_cap(‘mail_subscribers’);
}
$role = get_role(‘editor’);
if(!$role->has_cap(‘mail_subscribers’)) {
$role->add_cap(‘mail_subscribers’);
}
Thanks again for the help. I hope this helps others as well.
