Giving Editors access to ‘Options’ section

  • npessoa

    (@npessoa)


    16 years, 11 months ago

    I’m using WP as a CMS for a site, and so far, I’m the only admin. I have somebody who will need to log in about once a week to answer questions via the Ask-Me plugin, though, and I don’t want her to be confused by all the ‘extra’ stuff on the dashboard that comes along with Admin status.
    I don’t want her messing with any of the other plugins or presentation – but the “Options” tab is needed to get to the Ask-Me section, and this isn’t available to her with the “Editor” user role.

    I’ve heard about Role Manager, but is there a way to do this without a plugin? Basically to open up “Options” to all your users with Editor status?

    I really need to figure this out. Thank you!

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    16 years, 11 months ago

    Role Manager is what you need. You can then pick and choose which roles to let your editors have – and “Managing Options” is one of them.
    You can even create new roles with it.
    http://redalt.com/Resources/Plugins/Role+Manager

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    16 years, 11 months ago

    No you will need something such as the Role Manager plugin or make code changes (which would be very difficult).

    See Resources in Roles and Capabilities for link to Role Manager.

    adamheine

    (@adamheine)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    I have a similar question. I would like to allow an Editor-level user to have access to a plugin that has added a menu under the Options tab, but I don’t want the user to have access to all of WP’s core Options.

    I have the Role Manager plugin, but if I allow Editors to manage Options then the user can accidentally mess stuff up. Is there a way to allow the user access to only part of the Options page? Specifically, a part that has been added by a plugin?

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