Hi,

OK. The “send message to “admin” thing is a bug. If I add only one new admin, it doesn’t appear as a possible choice. If I add a second one, the first one appears as a choice in the list but not the second and so on…

Thanks in advance for fixing this.

Patrick

Hi Shamin,

> 1. You can use register_post_type_args hook to change which capability we need to create groups. (If you need more instruction let me know)

Yes, I would appreciate some guidance.

> 3. I could not reproduce the issue where if we have 2 admins, one is hidden. Can you please re-test this?

I have retested by adding a third admin and now I see all three. However, I should have mentioned that when I did the previous test, I had previously added and then deleted a new admin.

Thanks for the quick answer.

Patrick

Hi Shamim,

Thanks for the code. However, I’m afraid this will not be enough.

I have created a custom capability (manage_fepm_groups), gave it to the author role and used it in the code you provided. The FEPM menu doesn’t even appear in their dashboard.

This can be fixed by giving the authors the ‘page’ capability but even then, the access to edit.php?post_type=fep_group is not allowed.

I have seen that the manage_options capability is hard-coded everywhere in the code.So, I think that giving access to the All Groups page to authors and editors will require modifying this code directly. Something I don’t want to do for obvious reasons.

Patrick

Hi Shamim,

I changed the code as suggested using a custom capability. Now, authors and editors do have access to the whole FEPM menu (as you said, this is risky) but admins no longer see the FEPM | All Groups menu.

Not a satisfactory solution, I’m afraid.

I’ll see if I can work out something that would allow editors and authors to only have access to the FEPM | All Groups menu.

Patrick

Hi Shamim,

OK. I got it working but with some additional efforts. Here are the steps to follow. This can possibly help others…

1. Create a custom capability. In my case manage_fepm_groups.

2. Assign this capability to all roles you want to be able to manage groups without having access to the full FEPM management system.

3. Add the following code to functions.php ::


add_filter( 'register_post_type_args', function( $args, $post_type ){
if( 'fep_group' == $post_type ){
$args['show_in_menu'] = true;
}
return $args;
}, 10, 2);

add_filter( 'fep_admin_cap', function( $admin_cap ){
return 'manage_fepm_groups';
});


4. Now all roles having the manage_fepm_groups capability (in my case admins, editors and authors) have 2 FEPM related menus in their dashboard : Front End PM Pro (full management options without the All Groups entry) and Groups (Group management). This obviously not what we want.

5. Use an admin menu editor (I use Menu Editor) to make all the entries of the Front End PM PRO menu inaccessible to non admins. In Menu Editor this can be done by adding for each entry an additional extra capability that will be mandatory to access these menu entries. I entered manage_options in this field and saved the menu changes.

After that, the Front End PM PRO menu disappeared for authors and editors but was still there for admins (who are keeping the All Groups menu anyway which is indispensable because it is no longer there in the Front End PM PRO menu). Authors and Editors are now able to manage groups.

Well, I got what I wanted but this was a little bit awkward, to say the least 🙂 .

Thanks anyway for putting me on the right track. But I think that the possibility to give access to group management to non admins should be built-in.

Greeting from Fontainebleau, France.

Patrick