ElementGreen

Hello, I do not have write access to the subversion repository for this project, so I can’t directly make the changes. I’m also not familiar with the best way to submit patches for WordPress plugins, which is why I just posted it in the forum. If anyone knows a more appropriate method of tracking bugs and posted patches for this plugin, I’d appreciate the tip.

What I posted above is a patch file http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_(Unix) You can apply it manually by copying/pasting the lines with pluses to the mass-messaging-in-buddypress/mass-messaging.php file and removing any lines that start with minuses.

I was having the same problem. The technical details of the issue is that the current_user_can() WordPress function is being passed role names, which does not result in the expected behavior. Below is a patch which fixes this issue:

diff -ru mass-messaging-in-buddypress.orig/mass-messaging.php mass-messaging-in-buddypress/mass-messaging.php
--- mass-messaging-in-buddypress.orig/mass-messaging.php	2014-08-08 23:16:24.000000000 -0700
+++ mass-messaging-in-buddypress/mass-messaging.php	2014-08-08 23:04:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -2,6 +2,23 @@

 register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'install_massmessaging');

+function check_user_role ($role, $user_id = null){
+        $roles = array('super admin', 'administrator', 'editor', 'author', 'contributor', 'subscriber');
+
+	if (is_numeric($user_id))
+		$user = get_userdata($user_id);
+	else $user = wp_get_current_user();
+
+	if (empty($user))
+		return false;
+
+	for ($rolendx = 0; $rolendx < count ($roles); $rolendx++)
+		if (in_array ($roles[$rolendx], (array)$user->roles))
+			break;
+
+	return $rolendx <= array_search ($role, $roles);
+}
+
 if(!class_exists("StormationMassMessagingPlugin")){
 	class StormationMassMessagingPlugin{
 		public function __construct(){
@@ -224,7 +241,7 @@
 			);
 			$role = get_site_option('MassMessagingMinimumType');
 			do_action('mass_messaging_in_buddypress_before_user_can_view');
-			if(current_user_can($role)){
+			if(check_user_role($role)){
 				$wp_admin_bar->add_node( $wp_admin_nav );
 			}
 			do_action('mass_messaging_in_buddypress_after_user_can_view');
@@ -235,7 +252,7 @@

 			$role = get_site_option('MassMessagingMinimumType');
 			do_action('mass_messaging_in_buddypress_before_user_can_view');
-			if(current_user_can($role)){
+			if(check_user_role($role)){
 				bp_core_new_subnav_item( array(
    					'name' => 'Mass Messaging',
    					'slug' => 'mass-messaging',