Vendor roles for Admin

  • Resolved MattyLB

    (@mattylb)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hi guys … you’ve made an AWESOME plugin and I like watching it get better – in fact, I can hardly wait for the Pro version to become available so we can see you benefit from this as you deserve!

    Question – I’m running into more and more scenarios where my admin account could benefit, if not functionally require, full vendor permissions to help me “see” what’s happening on the vendor side of things without having to switch browsers to a vendor test account. I’ve also found an error when editing a vendor page that has a [wcv*] shortcode where it tells me, as admin, that I do not have vendor permissions, blah blah. (screenshot: http://www.screencast.com/t/XnL4jU0zqQ )

    There is also the fact that I would personally like to sell my own “official site items” within the stores, so that it doesn’t appear that I’m giving myself favoritism to the vendors, more that the “site” is part of the team.

    So, basically I’m asking if it’s possible to have an out-of-box option (configurable) to give Admin or specific admin user the necessary vendor rights to create my own store and “see” what other vendors are seeing from the front-end. If not, can you suggest a user-role plugin that can accomplish this?

    Thank you for everything you do!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wc-vendors/

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  • WCVendors

    (@wcvendors)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks MattyLB — I’m glad you’re enjoying the plugin.

    The reason an Administrator can not be a Vendor is because the vendors are not allowed to publish their own products live in most configurations, so if the Administrator shares the Vendor role, the Administrator will not be able to publish live products either. It’s a role conflict that is deep in the heart of WordPress & WooCommerce.

    So you have two options:

    1.) As your current admin, list products normally like you would do without WC Vendors. Just go to wp-admin, Products, New Product. That’s what most people do.

    2.) Create a new account for yourself, as a vendor, and sell your products that way, too. This will give you your own “store” and full access to the Seller Dashboard tools, too.

    There are other WordPress plugins here that allow you to switch back and forth between users, too. That way you wont have to keep logging in and out, or using incognito windows. Check out https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-switching/

    On the Shortcode screenshot you posted — Edit pages with Shortcodes in Text mode, not Visual mode. 🙂 Some other plugin is trying to execute that shortcode to give you a preview of it in your admin side, obvious by the Backend Editor and Frontend editor buttons under the post title. Something in that plugin is creating that weird annoyance for you. It’s not WC Vendors related, so the other plugin author would have to correct that for you.

    If you need anything else just let us know!

    PS — Support will always be near instant if you post a new Help forum topic @ http://www.wcvendors.com. WordPress.org does not notify us of new support requests, but I still check in every day. That said, support is MUCH faster on our own actual website.

    Cheers

    Ben

    Thread Starter MattyLB

    (@mattylb)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Ben –

    Thank you for the clarification – I completely understand why the two roles can’t be mixed now.

    Also, many many thanks for sending me in the direction of the user-switching plugin. Extremely handy tool, indeed!

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