[Plugin: WP Help] Used with Adminimize plugin & admin / editor roles

  • Resolved hunnsdon

    (@hunnsdon)


    11 years, 9 months ago

    After a long awaited update there was one issue for me that I now cannot get to operate. I need to lockout any user below admin (i.e. editor) from editing / managing or adding topics.

    Contacted Mark on his “markjaquith.wordpress.com” site. Got a good answer. Only I’m not an advanced user and don’t know how to accomplish the advice.

    Mark wrote: July 18, 2012 at 2:31 pm
    “You’ll have to hook in and change the roles assigned to the ‘wp-help’ custom post type.”

    See orginal post on that site: 2nd post – Two thirds down the page
    http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/wp-help-one-dot-oh/

    I can quite happily follow step by step instructions in editing files.

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  • jancbeck

    (@jancbeck)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    Hey hunnsdon,

    when you look at the main wp-help.php file you see part where the custom post type is registered around line 100. The part where it sets the capabilities needed to read a post applies a filter

    'read_post' => apply_filters( 'cws_wp_help_view_documents_cap', 'edit_posts' ),

    To change this you would need to create something like this to your themes functions.php:

    <?php add_filter('cws_wp_help_view_documents_cap', function() { return 'manage_options';}) ?>

    This is not tested but should overwrite the default requirements to view the help files so only admins can see them.

    Jason Resnick

    (@rezzz)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    hi jancbeck

    I tried this but getting a 500 error now and the site doesn’t load at all until I remove it.

    Any help would be appreciated, thanks. Or if you can guide me in the right direction to get it to work.

    Thread Starter hunnsdon

    (@hunnsdon)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Unfortunately I’ve had to abandon this plugin for the time being as I need a way to hide editing from other users.

    If someone can come up with a solution then great, but until then I’m using ‘Dashboard Site Notes’ by Ben Irvin.

    Drew Jaynes

    (@drewapicture)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    jancbeck’s filter would work on most servers but IIS servers (Windows) don’t always play nice with anonymous functions. Using a more traditional filter should do the trick:

    function change_read_cap() {
	return 'manage_options';
}
add_filter( 'cws_wp_help_view_documents_cap', 'change_read_cap' );

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