Edit User Capabilities

[Anonymous]

How can I remove the ability for authors to add/edit events? I didn’t see an area under settings to set the top user role that can access events info. I am using the WP Members Plugin where I can limit roles by user level.

Please let me know if I can limit Events Manager capabilities to just Editors & Administrators.

Thanks – Erik

[Franky]

Look for the line

define('MIN_CAPABILITY', 'edit_posts'); // Minimum user level to edit own events

in events-manager.php and change it to your needs. I’ll try to make this configurable in the future.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Franky. In this case, what would I turn this line of code into so that only Administrators and Editors could add events?

[Franky]

Look at the lines below that one:

define(‘MIN_CAPABILITY’, ‘edit_posts’); // Minimum user level to edit own events

define(‘AUTHOR_CAPABILITY’, ‘publish_posts’); // Minimum user level to put an event in public/private state

define(‘EDIT_CAPABILITY’, ‘edit_others_posts’); // Minimum user level to edit any event

define(‘SETTING_CAPABILITY’, ‘activate_plugins’); // Minimum user level to edit settings

[Anonymous]

Hi Franky, I’m still not understanding what I need to do at this point. What do I change? Do I add something to these lines of code or do I add these capabilities within the Members Plugin and change them within the plugin? How do I set the minimum user level? Can you provide an example?

Thanks

[Franky]

See here for the different roles you can use:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

[Anonymous]

Ok, yes, I understand this, but edit_posts is the same function as editing blog posts. I need for my Author users to be able to blog, but not to be able to add an event. How do I distinguish between edit_posts for blogs and the events manager? Right now, I can’t turn off only the events addition or editing for Authors and I need to be able to do that.

Thank you.

[Franky]

The checks performed by EME for roles/rights are only for EME activities, nothing else. Try “edit_others_posts”

[Anonymous]

Under capabilities for the Author Role within my Members WordPress Plugin, I only have the following capabilities selected and yet the Authors are still able to add events through the Event Manager Extended WordPress admin area:

delete_published_posts

delete_posts

edit_posts

edit_published_posts

publish_posts

read

upload_files

I do not have edit_others_posts checked as an Author capability and yet they can still add/edit events. I don’t want my authors having the capability to do that.

How do I fix this?

[Franky]

EME doesn’t use the roles you create, but uses the capabilities. So this must mean they still have this cpability somewhere. I don’t know the “Members WordPress Plugin”, but I’ll try this later on myself

[Anonymous]

Ok – do you know of any way to limit the adding and editing of events for the Author user group? I don’t want my Authors to be able to add or edit events through Events Manager Extended. Is there any plugin or code change available to make this a reality? Only my Editors and Administrators should have access to adding/editing events.

[Franky]

Change the lines:

define(‘MIN_CAPABILITY’, ‘edit_posts’); // Minimum user level to edit own events

define(‘AUTHOR_CAPABILITY’, ‘publish_posts’); // Minimum user level to put an event in public/private state

define(‘EDIT_CAPABILITY’, ‘edit_others_posts’); // Minimum user level to edit any event

define(‘SETTING_CAPABILITY’, ‘activate_plugins’); // Minimum user level to edit settings

to be:

define(‘MIN_CAPABILITY’, ‘edit_others_posts’); // Minimum user level to edit own events

define(‘AUTHOR_CAPABILITY’, ‘edit_others_posts’); // Minimum user level to put an event in public/private state

define(‘EDIT_CAPABILITY’, ‘edit_others_posts’); // Minimum user level to edit any event

define(‘SETTING_CAPABILITY’, ‘activate_plugins’); // Minimum user level to edit settings

[Anonymous]

Perfect! That worked. Thank you very much.

[Franky]

Access rights management has been implemented in trunk.

[Author]

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