User role issue

Hi @qvlsebastian,

Yes — this is expected behavior.

In the free version, only Administrator users have permission to create and manage timeline stories. By default, Editor users don’t have access to these features.

If you’d like, you can adjust this using custom code.

Thanks & Regards

Hi @qvlsebastian,

You don’t need to add any large or complex custom code for this.

Just open the file:
admin/class.cool-timeline-posttype.php

Before using $user_role, first get the current user role using WordPress functions:
$user = wp_get_current_user();
$user_role = (array) $user->roles;

Search for:
show_in_menu

Then replace this line:
'show_in_menu' => 'cool-plugins-timeline-addon'
with
'show_in_menu' => ($user_role == "editor") ? true : 'cool-plugins-timeline-addon'

This will allow Editor users to access the timeline menu as well.

Also, to make things easier and avoid file edits in the future, we’re planning to add filter hooks so you can control this more cleanly without modifying plugin files.

Thanks & Regards

• This reply was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Aniket Dogra.