Role Manager
What does Role Manager do?
WordPress Version 2.0 introduces the concept of Roles. Each Role is allowed to perform a set of tasks called Capabilities. This Plugin allows you to define and manage multiple subscriber profiles - called Roles and their Capabilities. Also you can create new Roles and Capabilities.
If you use this Plugin to manage your Wordpress, Users can belong to only one role and can have individual capabilities assigned to them outside of the context of a role.
News and recent changes
The latest stable release of “Role Manager” here is Version 2.2.3.
This Version of Role Manager Plugin is tested and works from Version 2.0.x up to Version 2.6.x of WordPress.
Since Version 2.2.3 also moved wp-content-directories (a WordPress 2.6. feature) are supported
Version 2.2. introduces many new features to the Role Manager. Some of them are:
- using 4 single pages: one for roles, one for capabilities, one for general information and statistics and one as a short internal help page
- role- and capability-names are now restricted to a maximum length of 30 signs
- only chars, digits and spaces are allowed for role- nad capability-names
- every transaction using a check for max length of 30 and allowed signs
- now it is very easy to copy an existing role
- for using the Role Manager a extra capability (”Manage Roles”) is needed
- and many more …
Some of the new functions you can see at some screenshots.
Version 2.2.1 introduced a new configuration option to permit spaces in capability names for other plugins (please read also this post about the problem with spaces).
Known Issues
No Issues are known.
Donload and Installation
- Download the “Role Manager” Plugin
- Make a new directory “
role-manager” underwp-content/plugins - Unzip the downloaded file and copy all included files in the new directory
- Activate the Plugin at your WordPress “Plugins”-Tab
- Ready!
Other download-ressources
The “Role Manager” Plugin using for development the services from sourceforge.net. At the project-download-page at sourceforge you can also find the latest stable release. More about the development you can read in the next section on this page.
More Ressources about the Role Manager at im web gefunden
General using Roles and Capabilities
- Sicher und gut von flickr aus gebloggt - this german post described the using of Roles and Capabilities to blog easy and secure from flickr to your blog. Here is the link to the translated version from german to english with google.
For developer - also other plugin-authors - and translator
- Special page with more background-information around the translation and development with and around the Role Manager Plugin
Other Ressources (external)
- Wordpress Codex about Roles and Capabilities
- Owen Winkler’s Permission Change Overview in Wordpress Version 2.0 and above
- Ryan Boren’s What’s New in 2.0: Roles and Capabilities
History and Changelog
The original Role Manager Plugin is written by David House and Owen Winkler. You can download this from Redalt. But it doesn’t work with Version 2.1 of WordPress
Version 2.2.2 to 2.2.3
+ support for moved wp-content directory
+ file includes are changed to fix some issues user reported
+ the changed include should prevent some problems with anarchy media plugin
+ updated english help and french translation
Version 2.2.1 to 2.2.2
+ support for the new admin interface of WordPress 2.5
+ updated japanese translation
Version 2.2.0 to 2.2.1
+ configuration option to permit spaces in capability names
Version 2.0.9 to 2.2.0
+ too many changes to list all here, sorry.
Version 2.0.8 to 2.0.9
+ changed the call for load_plugin_textdomain
- now works fine with gengo (fix the bug from comment #162 and #197)
+ add persian (farsi) translation
+ implemented an experimental patch for WordPress-MU (see this comment)
Version 2.0.7 to 2.0.8
+ Fixed the issue with wp_enqueue_script in older WordPress-Versions
Version 2.0.5 to 2.0.7
+ Ajax is now working
+ some minor changes and small bugfixes
+ new languages: french, swedish and portugese
Version 2.0.0 to 2.0.5
+ fix the remove from your yourself bug
+ complete rewritten the code for rename role
+ rewritten code for delete a role
+ get_all_user_ids() fixed
+ new subdirectory-scheme for images, languages and styles
Version 1.4.5 to 2.0.0
+ insert pathinformation for different wordpress-versions
+ changed path from rolemanager to role-manager
+ insert fieldset for capabilities on User-Tab
+ create new .pot-FIle for translations
+ german .po and .mo files included
Something misspelled?
You can help me to improve my english - feel free to give me your feedback in this case.
am 14.02.2007 um 11:12 Uhr:
[…] More information and the link to the download you can find on the new home of the “Role Manager Plugin” for Wordpress. […]
am 15.02.2007 um 10:39 Uhr:
Really nice to see this plugin develop further. I do have a bug to report (I think…).
Users with new roles created by the plugin doesn’t show in the “Author” drop-down-menu when editing posts or pages.
In my particular site I have a few users that are only allowed to save drafts. When I publish their drafts my admin-user show up as the author, since the actual users name isn’t in the “Author” menu.
If I assign one of the standard roles and then change the capabilities for that user, It’ll show. But that kind of takes the advantage away of having the ability to create new roles.
I’d really appreciate if you could look into it, ’cause I can’t figure the problem out (even though I looked through the DB and the plugin code).
Thanks for a great plugin, although.
am 15.02.2007 um 10:39 Uhr:
[…] Role Manager 2.0 is based on the plugin by Owen Winkler. This Plugin allows you to define and manage multiple subscriber profiles - called Roles and their Capabilities. Also you can create new Roles and Capabilities. […]
am 15.02.2007 um 14:50 Uhr:
When you try to delete a group, in WP 2.0.x function get_all_user_ids() tries to find the field user_ID instead i have only ID. I modified function in such a way to have role manager function properly:
function get_all_user_ids() {
if ($ids = wp_cache_get(’all_user_ids’, ‘users’)) {
return $ids;
} else {
global $wpdb;
$ids = $wpdb->get_results(’SELECT ID from ‘ . $wpdb->users); ……………..
am 15.02.2007 um 16:56 Uhr:
Thomas, in regards to my bug that you mentioned, I wanted to share some more information.
If I click on Users –> “Your Profile” tab, I can update my personal information on my profile without any errors. This is because the Role Manager options are not visible on the profile page.
But if one goes to Users, and then from the initial screen, clicks on the “Edit” link for the administrator, you can’t update your information without getting the error I reported earlier. On this screen, Role Manager is printing out the full list of capabilities that I (the administrator) have access to…
I don’t know if this is helpful, but it’s some more information to think about as you try to fix the problem.
Thanks.
am 15.02.2007 um 18:48 Uhr:
@Karl
After I got your comment - I checked this and see the same. I will look for …
@Fabio
Thank you - I will check this in the next days.
@Jay:
Yes - it is helpfull. On my testmachine I fixed your first reported bug but I want make some more test.
am 19.02.2007 um 12:11 Uhr:
I made some changes in the last days and will give you a small update of the “Role Manager”-Plugin at the end of this week. The upcomming Update fixes also the Bug reported by Jay.
@Karl:
My idea is:
Also WordPress 2.1 has not complete changed to Roles and Capabilities. In some cases it use the old user-level-based-system, eg. in the post-editor (
edit-form-advanced.php. Also inadmin_db.phpfunctionget_editable_authorsandget_editable_user_ids). At the beginning of the next week I will give you a solution what will help you without change wordpress-code.Create a extra plugin with a hook, what looks for a (new) capability called
show_in_authorlist. Every bloguser with this capability will shown in the authorlist at post-edit-form.Please give me some time - because I’m a little bit busy this week
am 19.02.2007 um 19:46 Uhr:
Thomas, thanks for making this available. I’m having a problem after installing the plugin.
I can no longer see the plugin management page — the one that lets you activate and de-activate plugins. I can see the page that lets me edit individual plugins.
This applies to the admin role and a new role I created with the same permissions as the admin.
If I try to type in the address of that page (plugins.php), I get an error that I don’t have sufficient permissions for the page — again, this is with an admin account.
Thanks for any help or advice.
Jon
am 22.02.2007 um 17:45 Uhr:
@Jon:
Sorry for my late response - I’m a little bit busy this week …
Never seen this - hmmmm??? Is it on WordPress 2.1? If you deactivate the Role Manager you can see your Plugin-(De-)Act-Page again? (The hardest way to deactivate is removing the completet role-manager-directory)
am 24.02.2007 um 16:08 Uhr:
Last night I have opened a new project for the Role Manager on sourceforge to get a public subversion repository. The project is now in the “Processing Queue for Projects Registrations”.
In the mean time I made some more fixes - also the note from Fabio. I found some more bugs, eg. “Rename Role” doesn’t work properly. The new version comes out after the “Project Registration” next week. I hope this is not to late for you.
am 27.02.2007 um 12:01 Uhr:
[…] Detailed information and the download link you can find on the Role Manager Homepage. […]
am 27.02.2007 um 12:35 Uhr:
It would be great, if it would support also groups with
1. negative role: e.g. you want to put someone into an Administrator group MINUS ability to delete, view, change … other users. But it would be otherwise true admin, so all future things you would allow to admin will be allowed to this user
2. user inviting into the same group - everyone could invite anyone to register, and if he is registered, he would got all the roles of that one who register him. Also if this user was allready registerd, he would recieve the roles of the “invitor” and xor the negative roles. Plus there would be a memo, who invited each guy. Imagine - you are an author and want someone to write an article. But if he would just register, he would recieve plain “subscriber” role. Now, you would have to contact admin to promote that guy … and that’s why it is now easier & faster to give that guy your own username and password, but this is less secure.
The best would be, if everyone could give also not full his rights.
I do not know if this is all in the socpe of role plugin, or if it would have to be part of a different plugin.
am 28.02.2007 um 19:13 Uhr:
[…] The Plugin will resolve a problem, reported by Karl in the context of the Role Manager Plugin: … in my particular site I have a few users that are only allowed to save drafts. When I publish their drafts my admin-user show up as the author, since the actual users name isn’t in the “Author” menu … […]
am 28.02.2007 um 21:18 Uhr:
@noname:
1. You can do this on two ways:
a)
Give the user the admin-role. After this delete unwanted capabilities on the detailed user-setup-page.
b)
Create a new role with the same capabilities and level as the original admin-role - but don’t activate unwanted capabilities for this new role. When give all users you want this new role.
I recommended only the second way, because I think it is not a good idea to use the userbased extra capabilities. Both ways can be a security leak, because many coreparts and plugins looks more for the level as the capabilities. You must make some tests for the best level before you use this in a production environment.
2. Create a special role for this way - eg. invitor. This role should have the capability to manage users. Create a user and set the role to “invitor”-role for him. With the new user create other users, who can create but not publish posts. Invite this new users with a special email from outside of wordpress. If one of the invited users have wrote his first post make a check on this. If all is ok, when publish this post and give the user more rights.
Of course - this is not really what you want. In my mind you want a mix between a blog, a wiki and a forum. This is not what most blog-administrators want: on a blog you should know a little bit about your authors. But the time will tell us, what a good way is
Last point from me: Please don’t use a name such as “noname” or “anonymous” and so on. I would rather talk with people than “nobody”. Thanks
am 01.03.2007 um 11:28 Uhr:
thank you for your hints (even they are not much usefull
i know this ways but for my application i would need that what i describe, but nevermind)
But i am not anonymous as i give my mail address and my personal website address 
Just for the last part - Noname is my nick, i’m known for in czech republic
am 04.03.2007 um 22:02 Uhr:
hi danke für das plugin! bin sehr begeistert
allerdings wär es gut wenn man das dashboard für normale leser verstecken könnte, kann man das in das plugin mit einbauen?
und zwar hab ich das hier gefunden:
klick mich
wär echt super
mfg
am 04.03.2007 um 23:45 Uhr:
[…] Een essentiele plugin hiervoor is Role Manager (versie van Thomas Schneider werkt met WP 2.1, orgineel van Red Alt niet). Met deze plugin is het eenvoudig om opties toe te kennen aan gebruikers. Wordt WordPress niet als een Blog-tool gebruikt? Dan zet je alle postmogelijkheden met deze plugin uit. Mogen de gebruikers geen gebruik maken van de plugins, options, themes, etc.? Dit alles is te beheren met deze geweldige plugin. […]
am 06.03.2007 um 10:59 Uhr:
Thanks so much for taking over this plugin!
Please notify http://weblogtoolscollection.com/ so they can get the word out.
am 06.03.2007 um 17:11 Uhr:
[…] I had scratched my head and tried a whole range of plugins for wordpress-mu to try and achieve this however nothing quite did what I needed. The closest was the Role Manager plugin however it didn’t work with wordpress-mu… and after I had spent a quantity of time trying to get it working I realised that roles were assigned to users on a per-blog basis rather than globally. It’s a shame as a roles and capabilities based solution had sounded reasonably elegant. […]
am 06.03.2007 um 17:26 Uhr:
[…] Role Manager, el plugin de WordPress que permite asignar o quitar permisos a los usuarios registrados en el blog, tiene nueva versión, la 2.0.5, compatible con WordPress 2.x. […]
am 06.03.2007 um 22:56 Uhr:
[…] Update 06. März 2007 Ich habe die hier angebotenen Dateien gelöscht. Bitte nur noch das komplette Plugin benutzen! […]
am 06.03.2007 um 23:15 Uhr:
@noname:
Can you explaine me why my way 1b isn’t useful? In my mind this is what you mean with negative roles.
am 06.03.2007 um 23:24 Uhr:
@Fw:
Der Role Manager stellt keine direkten Verwaltungsfunktionen zur Verfügug. Mit ihm lassen sich Berechtigungen managen. Wie aber bestimmte Teile von WordPress - und dazu gehören auch Plugins - mit diesen Berechtigungen umgehen, ist nicht Sache des Role Managers.
Daraus ergibt sich, daß der Plugin-Autor sein Plugin so ändern muß, daß es bestimmte Berechtigungen abfragt/überprüft und darauf hin seine Entscheidungen trifft. Dazu kann man auch neue Berechtigungen (Capabilities) benutzen. Ein Beispiel dafür ist mein Plugin “IWG Extended Author List“, daß genau die beschriebenen Methoden benutzt. Vielleicht kann es ja der Plugin-Autor als Anregung für seine Erweitwerungen nutzen, wenn Du ihn fragst.
am 06.03.2007 um 23:28 Uhr:
@Don:
?
Did you read comment #3 here
am 07.03.2007 um 16:48 Uhr:
[…] Role Manager este plugin de wordpress tiene nueva versión 2.0.5, compatible con Wordpress 2.x. Este plugin nos permite establecer permisos de manera individual a cada usuario de wordpress. Perfecto para los blogs que tienen varios editores (Vía La brujula verde ). […]
am 11.03.2007 um 01:58 Uhr:
Wow thanks a lot for pickin up the dev track on this essential plugin Thomas. Very nice of you…
I have a small problem I just cannot solve. I have a lot of contributors submitting drafts but even though I have the ‘Read’ ability set for all of them they cannot view the drafts of other contributors. is this by design? if so what could I look at in role-manager.php to solve this problem? I took a look but I cannot see how this is determined anywhere.
Thanks!
am 11.03.2007 um 21:15 Uhr:
[…] Wordpress v2.02 Wordpress v2.1 Wordpress v2.12 Role Manager v2.0.5 […]
am 11.03.2007 um 21:36 Uhr:
[…] Role Manager v2.0.5 Multiple Authors […]
am 12.03.2007 um 09:53 Uhr:
@Miles:
I will look for a way to do this.
am 12.03.2007 um 17:38 Uhr:
Hi,
How can I prevent the management of widgets under presentation?
am 13.03.2007 um 10:31 Uhr:
@Miles:
WordPress can handle this only by the “Edit Others Posts”-Capability. But I think, this is not what you want?
@Don:
This is handled by the Widget-Plugin. Please ask the authors of the widget-plugin which capabilities they used in such cases.
am 13.03.2007 um 20:25 Uhr:
The Custom Capabilities usage is:
1. create a capability name
2. on the code of your plugin put something like ” if ( ! current_user_can(’MY_CAPABILITY’) ) ”
Is that it?
How difficult it would be disallow some users to choose from the category list when writing a post (allow them to post only on the default category)? Is it possible without hacking the core?
What about associating categories to user levels, so some categories will appear as an option only for some users…? is it possible to do with a plugin?
Leo,,
am 13.03.2007 um 21:45 Uhr:
@Leo:
Yes - this is the rigth way for using capabilities.
The plugin is only a manager for roles and capabilities. You can create, delete and manage roles and capabilities. But you can’t nothing more.
If you want handle a special situation - like yours - you need a other plugin, what handles this. A kind of such plugin is IWG Extended Author List. The best way to create such a plugin is to looking for hooks in the WordPress-Core. Don’t change the core-source.
am 16.03.2007 um 04:55 Uhr:
thanks for picking up development of this plugin
just wanted to point you to wordpress’s new plugin repositry: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
am 16.03.2007 um 22:18 Uhr:
@Blaze:
Done
am 17.03.2007 um 01:34 Uhr:
Hello. Thanks a lot for the plugin. Its really amazing for my needs. One question though. Would it be possible to disallow post authors to moderate their own posts? AS far as I can see the fact that a user creates a post unfortunately also gives him the right to also moderate the comments made on that post. I could modify wp’s main code but i’d rather not do that. Thanks for any suggestions.
am 17.03.2007 um 17:48 Uhr:
Hello Thomas:
Thank you for a very impressive plug-in..
I’m a newbie to Wordpress and know very little about PHP, so.
I have been wanting a contributor or author to be able to edit or delete comments they make to someone else’s posts, as well as “their own” comments to “their own” posts. The original Wordpress, without a plugin, required you set the user to at least Editor before they could edit/delete their “comments” to someone else’s posts. But then they could delete everyone’s posts and comments, as well as anything else someone had posted (photos, files, etc.).
I found the following info under Contributor (Edit-Posts) at url: http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#edit_posts
Thought I understood but guess I didn’t.
———————————————————
Manage->Comments — meaning: “show post”-link; “edit post”-, “edit comment”- and “delete comment”-links only on own posts since edit-comment.php (http://trac.wordpress.org/file/trunk/wp-admin/edit-comments.php) looks for “current_user_can(’edit_post’, $comment->comment_post_ID)”‘
—————————————————
I need either a contributor, or author, to be able to edit/delete their own input (photos/posts/comments as well as posts, but no one else’s. An editor and above would be able to edit or delete anyone’s posts, files, photos, and comments as it is now.
p.s. I tried setting a new capability for Contributor in your plugin for “Edit Comments”, but nothing changed. Is their coding that needs to be added when you add a new capability? Also now I can’t delete that capability, and afraid to use the “Delete unused capabilities”..
Hope I haven’t confused you with my ramblings.. To keep this board clear you can also contact me at me email addy.
Thanks
Martin
am 17.03.2007 um 21:44 Uhr:
@Thomas, where, i can’t find it?
am 19.03.2007 um 18:29 Uhr:
Great plugin - It would be good if you could add the ability to select “Manage Roles” as a capability - I want a role to be able to edit user settings, but not roles.
am 19.03.2007 um 18:37 Uhr:
I suppose if I just deactivate the plugin when I don’t want it used, that’d be okay..
am 19.03.2007 um 23:21 Uhr:
Sorry for my late response - I’m a little bit busy in the moment.
@Blaze:
Sorry - this was my mistake. I only want add it - without subversion. I want to use subversion and other services at sourceforge. In the next day I will to think about svn at wordpress. Sorry, again.
@Tudor:
Wordpress-Core knows the capability “moderate comments”. But - I think you want a other solution. Only disallow moderate comments on own posts but allow moderation on others posts comments - is this what you want? Then you need a new plugin for this. It’s not a good idea to modify the core. If you only want allow moderate comments on own posts - use “edit posts”-capability.
@Martin:
This is from the original-plugin-code. It’s on my roadmap to change this and make it easier to remove a single unused capability.
Wordpress 2.1 knows many new capabilities with the term “others” - e.g. “edit others posts” and “edit others pages”. Create a new Role - e.g. “My Author” and use the capability “edit posts” for this. This will allow what you want - only on own posts. But remember - this is new in 2.1. If I misunderstood you - please give me a short note here.
And: Yes - the WordPress-Core knows only some basic capabilities. If you create a new one you need coding for this capability. Look in my code for Karl - the “IWG Extended Author List”-Plugin (in the left menu above). I know also your “afraid”
@James:
Deactivation is the only solution at this time. This is also on my roadmap. In the moment I make some tests with a new capability, called: “Manage Roles and Caps” to realize this, because I think this is important for many people. Not every user who can manage users should also have the rights to manage roles and capabilities. Hope this is a good news for you.
am 19.03.2007 um 23:26 Uhr:
Hello again.
I probably didn’t explain it properly. I’m making a site where I want users to be able to post entries but not be able to moderate comments either to their posts or to anyone else’s. That should be the admin’s job, users should only have posting privileges. So, is there any way I could incorporate this in the plugin?
Thanks again.
am 19.03.2007 um 23:31 Uhr:
Ah - I understand. This should be easy: remove the capability “edit comments” from your authors and set under options->discussion the point to: “Every comment must be moderate by an administrator”. I can’t check this solution in the moment - but it should be working. Can you try this?
am 19.03.2007 um 23:41 Uhr:
Thanks for the quick reply. I hadn’t thought of that. Unfortunately it doesn’t work. So apparently WP considers that Authors are Admins for their own posts.
am 19.03.2007 um 23:44 Uhr:
Urgggh
I will look in the code for a hook what can help us in this situation. Give me some days for this, please.
am 20.03.2007 um 22:42 Uhr:
Hi!
This plugin sure is a great one, I`ve tried it in a regular WP installation and it worked alright.
But when I try to run is on a WPMU install, it doesn`t work. It`s layout is a little messy, and I keep getting errors like “Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/rsenise1/public_html/jornalismo/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php on line 143″.
Do you have any ideia on how to fix it?
Thankz, Senise!
am 21.03.2007 um 21:13 Uhr:
Senise, Role Manager isn’t designed for MU. Maybe, you can find a solution at Sam’s Work Blog. Please read comment #20 above.
am 22.03.2007 um 13:07 Uhr:
Thanks Thomas for this great plugin. I have made a French .po file for it. If you would like to add it to the plugin’s package, I will be happy to send it to you. Please contact me by email.
am 23.03.2007 um 21:16 Uhr:
Yes, I would like to add it. I will contact you by email in the next days. Thank you, very much!
am 26.03.2007 um 06:12 Uhr:
Thanks for the response Thomas:
I probably didn’t make myself clear. A “contributor” can edit his own posts right now, but cannot “edit/delete” his own comments. There curently is no role for ‘edit comments’. In order to allow someone to edit/delete their own comments, they must be given the ‘edit other’s posts’ role, but then they can delete everyone else’s posts as well as other’s comments. So creating a role “my author” and giving a role “edit posts” would be what a contributor already has. He can delete own posts but not comments.
I think I will use your suggestion to another query to find a place and add some code when processing the comment for:
In regards part 2 of your response. I successfully purged the unused capability I had created by making sure it wasn’t used in any role.
Thanks.. You have a great plugin..
am 27.03.2007 um 12:54 Uhr:
How do I give someone the ability to add/modify users but not the admin? I also d not want them to access the Role Manager? Right now I have them setup as an editor with the ability to edit users but we need to keep them from deleting the admin role and capabilities.
am 28.03.2007 um 04:14 Uhr:
Hallo Thomas,
danke erstmal für dein Plugin.
Allerdings habe ich folgendes Problem:
1. Ich würde gerne eine Benutzergruppe haben, die im Admin-Panel überhaupt keinen Zugriff auf das Menü “Kommentare” hat, bzw. es würde auch reichen, wenn alle Benutzergruppen mit dem Level kleiner 8 dieses Menü nicht sehen können. Ist sowas mit deinem Plugin möglich, bzw. kannst du es erweitern, dass dies möglich ist?
Zudem noch eine Frage: Was bedeutet “Edit Private Posts” bzw. diese anderen private Optionen?
Danke im Voraus, smoochy
am 28.03.2007 um 08:14 Uhr:
Hi. First the plugin works great. However, one problem I’m hoping you can help me with.
I primarily use the plugin to allow my registered users to view private posts using a special field post_level. Registered users have no problem viewing private posts but cannot comment. How do I modify it so they can leave a comment on private posts? Btw, I leave the “allow comments” section checked on the post page.
am 28.03.2007 um 13:11 Uhr:
@Murph’s Mom:
I will add this in the next release. Please also read comments #40-#42 above for a solution in the moment.
@smoochy:
Die Erklärungen für die “private”-Dinge findest Du im WordPress-Codex. Userlevel gibt es zwar noch - aber langfristig sollen sie durch Gruppen (Roles) und Berechtigungen (Capabilities) ersetzt werden. Mit diesem Plugin kannst Du beides verwalten - aber grundsätzlich keine neuen Funktionalitäten schaffen oder vorhandene ändern. Dafür benötigst Du separate Plugins - wie zum Beispiel “IWG Extended Author List”.
@mobi:
Can you explain me this a little bit more, please? Do you use WordPress-Post-state “private” or do you flagg a post as private with a costum field and state “published”?
am 28.03.2007 um 20:14 Uhr:
I use your plugin to set the user level for registered users to 2. I then set a custom field on some posts, “post_level” with the value set to 2. I then save the post as “private” with the “allow comments” checked.
Registered users at level 2 can log-in and see the private post but they can’t comment. When they try to comment it brings up a list of empty uncatergorized posts.
am 28.03.2007 um 20:15 Uhr:
great plugin!
But.. i have the same problem of TUDOR. The CONTRIBUTOR can edit comments. Its very important to fix this problem because its the low level and we need to open the website to other contributors without let them make damage. I wait for your fixes.
am 28.03.2007 um 22:20 Uhr:
@Moby:
I will try something in the next days with your situation.
@Stefano:
This is not a Role-Manager-Problem. It comes from the WordPress-core - but I’m working on a solution. I hope I will finish at the weekend with an extra Plugin what will help you and Tudor.
am 29.03.2007 um 01:21 Uhr:
Thanks for the plugin. I’m gonna try it out in a few.
am 30.03.2007 um 05:10 Uhr:
Hey, thanks. If you come up w/a fix, I’d be most appreciative.
am 01.04.2007 um 07:18 Uhr:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class rolemanager in …/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php on line 22
None of the functions work for role manger 2.5. or previous version. I have wordpress 2.1.2 .
All buttons give the same error as above.
am 02.04.2007 um 08:26 Uhr:
[…] Role Manager 2.0 is based on the plugin by Owen Winkler. This Plugin allows you to define and manage multiple subscriber profiles - called Roles and their Capabilities. Also you can create new Roles and Capabilities. […]
am 03.04.2007 um 10:47 Uhr:
@shahram:
I tried it yesterday on a fresh WordPress 2.1.2 installation without any problem or failure. Please check your installation: if you have other parts of the plugin under a different location as plugins/role-manager/-directory please remove those.
am 03.04.2007 um 12:03 Uhr:
@Tudor and Stefano:
I’m not amused about the way WordPress handle your problem. I made many, many tests - and I can give you only a partially solution.
First the way, how WordPress handles comment moderation for the posts author:
All parts from the comment moderation inside the core are going to verify the authors capability “edit posts”. If a post is published - when this check will on demand changed to test the capability “edit published posts”. This happens in the function
map_meta_capinside the filewp-include/capabilities.php.What does this means?
If you remove the capability “edit published posts” from a user - the user can edit his draft. If the user publish the draft - he can’t no longer edit this post to make modifications on it. But: He also can’t moderate comments on it! Not own comments either.
But we have an other problem:
If the author is going to read his published post and when he detect a typing error (misspelling, grammar etc.) he can’t edit this post to correct his mistake, bacause he doesn’t have the capability “edit published posts”. Urghhh
I wrote a Plugin to handle this situation a little bit better - but only a little bit: If an author have the capability “edit published posts” and not the capability “moderate comments” he can edit his own post until the first comment on this post is occurred. This means: The first comment on a post will on demand remove the capability “edit published posts” from the author for this single post. In fact: The author can’t any longer edit this post and is not allowed to moderate any comments on this single post.
If you or any other person is interesting to try this new Plugin from me, please give me a short note here.
If this is not what you want, you must change the core of WordPress. I don’t will do this for you.
The best way, I think, is to make a change request on Trac to implement a new way and a new capability - e.g. “edit comments on own posts” - to handle this. But this is not my part
am 03.04.2007 um 20:51 Uhr:
Thanks for the update again, I was wondering about that edit my user error:) As a note, this seems to be ok with 2.1.3 for me today.
am 03.04.2007 um 20:53 Uhr:
As a side note: I’d advised putting a big fat colorful box link on this page http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/2007/01/28/wordpress-21-role-manager-plugin/ so that users from the old forums post get here. The page is edited heavily, and seemed a bit confusing to some intro users I talked with.
am 03.04.2007 um 22:22 Uhr:
Thank you so much for updating the Role Manager plugin! I had to stop using the old one because it interfered with a visual editor plugin. I missed having all those options. Danke sehr!
am 04.04.2007 um 17:36 Uhr:
I have an error using this plugin.
JS says to me: sack() is not defined
This error is in function submitme(frm) in role-manager.php.
Can someone help me??
am 05.04.2007 um 09:22 Uhr:
[…] Role Manager by Thomas (originally by RedAlt) This plugin lets you define custom roles - and lets you assign them to users, levels, and even has a plugin interface for custom admin screens. A godsend application when dealing with multiple authors; I couldn’t work without this! […]
am 06.04.2007 um 10:31 Uhr:
@Brady:
Thank for your feedback again. I will put a big box at the top of the old entry in the enxt days.
@Merlin:
Yes - it’s right. This is a small minor bug from the original. I will release next week a minor update, what will fix some small bugs - also the one you reported - and suport two new languages.
Thomas
am 07.04.2007 um 06:46 Uhr:
Hello again. Any luck w/the problem I mentioned previously?
am 07.04.2007 um 16:02 Uhr:
[…] Of course, there is a fantastic plugin out there that allows a blog owner to modify existing roles and capabilities or even add other roles and capabilities. If the five solutions out of the box don’t quite work for you, you can change it up. […]
am 08.04.2007 um 16:18 Uhr:
Thomas
vielen, vielen Dank - SUPER plugin
It just solved all my headaches - installed it and used it without any glitches - excellent !!!
THANKS
am 10.04.2007 um 08:36 Uhr:
@Moby:
I don’t forgot you. I tried many things but can’t find a good solution
But: I would therefore recommend that you try the Plugin “Disclose Secret” to solve your problem. Do you know this Plugin?
am 11.04.2007 um 06:21 Uhr:
[…] Role Manager 2.0 is based on the plugin by Owen Winkler. This Plugin allows you to define and manage multiple subscriber profiles - called Roles and their Capabilities. Also you can create new Roles and Capabilities. […]
am 12.04.2007 um 15:11 Uhr:
[…] Nachtrag: Habe gerade noch das von Thomas an WP 2.1 angepasste Role Manager Plugin installiert & damit eine eigene Benutzergruppe für Artikel-Autoren frei definiert - ein wirklich sehr geniales Plugin. Dazu habe ich das Wordpress Backend dahingehend bereinigt, daß jetzt alle für registrierte Autoren überflüssigen Felder ausgeblendet sind & alle Kategorien auf einen Blick erscheinen. Ist per CSS in der Datei /admin/wp-admin.css ein Kinderspiel - via Robert Hartl. […]
am 12.04.2007 um 19:40 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
Thank you for all of your hard work. I hope that you can help me with my problem. I have been trying for a while, to get 2.0.5 to work. I don’t an error, but I have a new role created, set to default, giving new members the ability to post. Each time it says that user doesn’t have permission.
Thanks for any help you can give!
Webigail
am 13.04.2007 um 01:03 Uhr:
@Brady:
Put a colored box at the top of the page for the newcomers
@Webgail:
I saw you using Wordpress 2.1.3. Where were your problems to get it to work? I tried it on a fresh 2.1.3 without any problems.
It’s not really a good idea to give all new members the ability to publish posts - but this is my point of view
Okay: Which capabilities are assigned to your new role? Please let me know all of these and also the user level the new role has.
am 13.04.2007 um 01:27 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
Great plugin, works like a charm. Just two questions:
-I have translated the .po to pt_PT (Portuguese), care to have it?
-Is there a way to make another plugin “Role Manager aware”? i.e. I use StickPost and would like to be able to control its usage per profile.
Thanks and gruesse aus Portugal…
Z
am 13.04.2007 um 08:51 Uhr:
@Zekka:
Yes - I want your translations
I’m very happy about every new or updatet translation. In the last days I’m finished the setup for developer and translator at sourceforge. You - and every other translator - can submit your translation, if you use this tool. You can be first one - if you fast enough
If you don’t want this - give me a short note, please.
It is very easy to enhance other plugins to use Roles and Capabilities. The release 2.0.6 is ready since yesterday - but before it will released - I will set up some more information pages, eg. for developer, translator and developer of other plugins to use capabilities. This is the reason, why I want give you only a short tip here: All parts you should know can be found in
wp-include/capabilities.php.Simple use the function
current_user_can('the_needed_cap').Hope, my short answer is a help for the next days
am 13.04.2007 um 11:16 Uhr:
Thomas,
Translation is uploaded.
As to the enhancement to the other plugin, since I’m short on time, I’ll wait until you post the more detailed developer info…
Cheers
Z
am 13.04.2007 um 23:42 Uhr:
No, but I will certainly check it out. Thanks for recommending it!
am 14.04.2007 um 07:06 Uhr:
Hi Thomas, thank you for this great plugin. I have a question I hope you can help me with. I have a login on the front page of a site I have developed. After logging in the user is returned to the same page, but now if they have a user level > 1 they should see a “site admin” link. This works correctly for the administrator role, but not for the new custom roles I have assigned with a level of 2. Here is the code I am using:
<div id="login">
<?php global $user_login, $user_identity, $user_level; get_currentuserinfo();
if ($user_login) { ?>
<h2>Logged In</h2>
<p> Welcome, <?php echo $user_identity; ?><br />
<?php if ($user_level > 1 ) { ?>
<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/wp-admin/">Site Admin</a><br /><?php } ?>
<?php wp_loginout(); ?></p>
<?php } else { ?>
<h2>Login</h2>
... login form here ...
</div>
Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
am 14.04.2007 um 09:03 Uhr:
I think it is easier if you use an capability-check - you need only one function and not so much global vars for this. Try the same with an capability what all your registered users have with
current_user_can('the_needed_cap').am 16.04.2007 um 00:05 Uhr:
Hi, thanks for a great plugin!
I have the same question as “Murphs Mom”. I would like to give users the capability to edit/delete/create users EXCEPT for the admin role. Will that make it into the next version?
Thx - Susan
am 16.04.2007 um 02:03 Uhr:
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am 16.04.2007 um 23:12 Uhr:
@Susan:
I think this is a little mistake. The general way to create/edit/delete users comes from the core. In the next upcomming release-series (2.2.x - this is other as current 2.0.x-series) of Role Manager you need an extra capability to use the Role Manager. If a user has this capabilty he can using the Role Manager. If the user don’t has it but has the capability “edit_users” he can create/edit/delete users as implemented in the core.
For your problem - you need an extra Plugin what help to restrict ‘edit_users’ to avoid non-admin-users to manage users with adminrole. (Hope this is the right spelling/grammar for this
) In April should WordPress 2.2. comes out to the public. I don’t know if the upcoming 2.2.-WordPress-Core changes the way to handle your problem better as the current 2.1-series. If not - we should coding a Plugin for this 
am 20.04.2007 um 22:33 Uhr:
thanks for this amazing plugin
Q: what if i want to remove plugin, and i want every thing about users back to what it was?
thanks
am 23.04.2007 um 17:02 Uhr:
@Amar:
The Plugin doesn’t have a function like “reset to factory defaults” and such a function isn’t on the roadmap, yet.
am 24.04.2007 um 05:54 Uhr:
thanks Thomas
ok how i do that manually ?
I have some knowledge in PHP & MySQL
thanks again
am 25.04.2007 um 12:15 Uhr:
@Amar:
WordPress holds the information on two places: The first is in the options-table (mostly wp_options) - it is a row called wp_user_roles. The datafield stores all roles and their accociated capabilities and user levels. The second part is stored in usermeta-table (mostly wp_usermeta). Every user has a row called wp_capabilities. If a user don’t has extra capabilities - this means: only all capabilities from his role - only the role is stored. If a user has more than one role or has extra capabilities this is information are also stored here.
Both parts are stored as serialized information - setup it manually is a little bit tricky
Why don’t you want using the Role Manager for this job? Do you don’t know the “factory settings” for roles and capabilities on a fresh WordPress-Installation? Which part is lost or damaged on your installation?
am 26.04.2007 um 20:03 Uhr:
oky i decide to do not do that manually
yes I forget or I don’t know the “factory settings” for roles and capabilities of wp users. if you can tell me this -especially for author user type- you will do a favor for me - I can not reinstall wp on my PC or server.
thanks again, I hope that is the last thanks
am 28.04.2007 um 12:45 Uhr:
5 gute Wordpress Plugins auf unserem Weinblog
Bevor es weiter zum nächsten Wein geht noch kurz mein besonderes Dankeschön an die nächsten 5 eingesetzten Wordpress Plugins:
Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin
Wieder ein super Plugin von SW-Guide. Das Plugin nutzt bei den Kommentaren …
am 29.04.2007 um 10:48 Uhr:
@Amar:
Sorry for my late response - I was absent from Berlin in the last days.
You can find this information in the Wordpress Codex about Roles and Capabilities.
am 02.05.2007 um 02:38 Uhr:
Hello,
Thanks for this great plugin! Really, thanks, it’s great!
By the way, I’m having an issue. I want to create a role for someone to edit/delete comments. After many tests, I discovered it’s only possible enabling “Edit Published Posts” & “Edit Others Posts”. The problem is, that by doing this they can also edit the author’s published posts, and I don’t want that. Not enabling both will not show the edit links.
Any idea? This a wordpress bug?
Thanks.
am 03.05.2007 um 15:38 Uhr:
thanks Thomas ..
am 03.05.2007 um 17:26 Uhr:
@MTO:
You want a Role what only can moderate comments? WordPress knows a capability “Moderate Comments” - but I had never play with it. What is happens if you use it?
am 04.05.2007 um 03:43 Uhr:
Yes, that’s what I want.
It seems that “Moderate Comments” is for approving posts when all posts are moderated instead of immediately published, so that doesn’t do the job I need. Thanks!
am 05.05.2007 um 18:04 Uhr:
@MTO:
I played a little bit with “moderate comments”. Now I know your problem - needed capabilies are: “edit posts”, “edit published posts” and “moderate comments”. I don’t have any solution to fix your problem - all involved parts are from the core. You need an extra coded plugin for this, sorry.
am 05.05.2007 um 21:22 Uhr:
…ich habe nur eine Frage bezüglich des “Aussehens” des Rolemanagers in Wordpress.
Bei mir erscheinen plötzlich alle Felder/Buttons untereinander - mir war so als wären die beim ersten Mal schön übersichtlich sortiert auf der Seite gewesen….gibt es dafür eine Erklärung?
Danke
*edit: ….Ich habe gerade bemerkt, dass das “Custom Admin Menu” PlugIn von Barun Sing die CSS durcheinander bringt…. wo könnte man da die relevante Formatierung finden - da wird wahrscheinlich irgendeine Klasse oder so gleich benannt sein…
am 05.05.2007 um 21:42 Uhr:
Sind sie auch
nd was kommt jetzt für eine Frage?! Natürlich die nach Browser, Version und Betriebssystem - sonst kann man doch so schlecht helfen 
Um es einfacher zu machen: Wie sieht es denn in einem anderen Browser als Safari 1.2 aus? 
Damit noch was zu beantworten bleibt - sag’ mal bitte auch gleich Deine WordPress-Version mit durch.
am 05.05.2007 um 21:47 Uhr:
Hallo Thomas,
- Wordpress Version 2.1.2 DE
- Safari 2.0.4 auf Mac
- Firefox 2.0.0.3 auf Mac
könnte ich einen Screeshot schicken?
am 05.05.2007 um 21:57 Uhr:
Und bei beiden Browsern hast Du das Problem? Ja - schick mal ‘n Screenshot. Ich komme aber erst morgen dazu, mir das auf dem Mac anzusehen. Aber eigentlich sieht es da genau so aus, wie auch unter Linux und Windows. Warte also mal auf Deine Screenshots. Adresse findest Du im Impressum.
am 05.05.2007 um 22:00 Uhr:
Danke - ist dann unterwegs.
am 07.05.2007 um 06:35 Uhr:
Hello,
I tried to activate role manager 2.0.7 in a wordpress version 2.0.4 and I am getting the following error upon activation.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wp_enqueue_script() in /wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php on line 51
Any help would be appreciated.
am 07.05.2007 um 11:17 Uhr:
@Jared:
It’s not a good news at the beginning of a new week
The
wp_enqueue_script()is for calling the ajax-lib. It seems what WordPress 2.0.4 doesn’t knows the function. I should more testing with “very old” versions of WordPressAt late night today I will release a version, what fix this issue for WordPress-Versions without
wp_enqueue_script(). I’ll give you a note by email if the release is available here.am 07.05.2007 um 20:38 Uhr:
Thomas
Your plugin is beautiful.
I am trying to set up a test blog site and a user (’Author’), that will allow me to send username and password to many people so that they can create test posts to my site (which I will also autodelete after x days with the use of another plugin).
However, I find that no matter what I do, I cannot hide the “Profile” tab or eliminate the line on the Dashboard that reads “Update your profile or change your password”.
Do you have a solution with or without your plugin.
Regards,
Robert
am 07.05.2007 um 21:11 Uhr:
Thomas
Beautiful Plugin
However, I don’t seem to be able to restrict the ability of a user to change their own password. Is this possible with your plugin?
Basically, I’m setting up a testing blog site for one of my projects and I want to create an Author that can create blog posts. But I want to be able to send to many people that Author’s username and password, so that they can use it as a testing entry value.
But as a result I don’t want them to be able to change the password, Really I’d like to restrict them from seeing the ‘Profile’ tab altogether and even not see the ‘Update Your Profile or Change Your Password’ link on the Dashboard page.
Better still see no ‘dashboard’ tab at all and go right into the ‘Write’ tab.
Any ideas to help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Robert
am 07.05.2007 um 21:56 Uhr:
@Robert:
I saw a Plugin “Hide dashboard” - but can’t find the link in the moment
To restrict the user from seeing the “Profile”-tab and to redirect them to the “Write”-Post additional coding is needed. I don’t know such a Plugin what do this job in the moment.
am 07.05.2007 um 22:01 Uhr:
@Robert:
I made some searches and found this: Both plugins can be a base for an extra coded stuff what can help you:
“Hide Dasboard Plugin” and “Weasel’s Login Redirect / Text Replacement Plugin“.
I hope this is a little help for you.
am 07.05.2007 um 22:11 Uhr:
Thomas
Nice to hear from you. Having a look at what you sent. Many thanks.
Regards,
Robert
am 11.05.2007 um 23:32 Uhr:
Thomas
Love your Role Manager plugin.
Just one more question, is there any way I can restrict users from making changes to their own profile.
I’m making a common user for several visitors to my wp 2.1.3 blog site. I don’t mind them seeing what’s in the profile tab for that user but do not want them to have the ability to make changes to the profile, thus making it impossible for others to login with old profile (mainly a changed password would have done that).
Regards,
Robert
am 14.05.2007 um 13:18 Uhr:
@Robert:
I think you need a way to realise a function like “expire profiles” or “expire users”. I don’t know a plugin what realise such a function - but I believe it is easy to implement for someone who will coding this. I’m to busy for such a job in the moment, sorry.
am 19.05.2007 um 01:25 Uhr:
Hello Thomas,
I am receiving the same error as in #61:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class rolemanager in /home/surepog6/public_html/wordpress-2.1.3/wordpress/
wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php on line 23
I reinstalled WP 2.2 with Role Manager Plugin 2.0.8., followed your instructions, and did not make any modification.
Do you know what I am doing wrong?
Could it be something on the Web Server?
am 21.05.2007 um 00:22 Uhr:
Whew, having more of those “authors can see edit-comments.php and see every commenter’s email and IP address” type troubles.
I deactivated and deleted the old Owen Winkler role manager completely, then uploaded and activated yours.
I created a new role called “Writer” and only gave it “read” permission. Assigned it to one test user, logged in under that, and can only see Dashboard and Profile. Excellent.
Logged in as admin again and added “Edit Posts”. So ‘Writer’ only has ‘read’ and ‘edit posts’ capabilities, nothing more. I double-checked my specific test user only had these two capabilities.
Logged in as the test user and nuts I can see Write, Manage, and Comments. Under comments I see everyone’s comments with email and IP addresses, not just the test user’s comments as per
http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#edit_posts
I read through most of your comments and get the general idea this is a wordpress core code flaw introduced in 2.0 versions? I’ve seen many support questions on this and nobody has a solution yet.
Any advice? I had to drop everyone to subscriber a few weeks ago, nobody’s writing posts at my site anymore, all my users are pssd at me, i’m not able to find any support or solutions, and i’m actually looking at other engines besides wordpress, it’s getting that serious.
am 22.05.2007 um 14:37 Uhr:
Hello,
So glad to finally find an update to this plugin.
I am currently using version 1.4.5 on Wordpress 2.0.6 and would like to upgrade to your latest version before upgrading to Wordpress 2.2
Is the upgrade as simple as deleting the old version and uploading the new version. I will back up my database first but I am wondering if my old settings will be kept after the upgrade?
Thank You
Morgs
am 26.05.2007 um 07:13 Uhr:
Very cool, thanks. I haven’t used it yet on my WP 2.2, but I’m sure I will. Install went well.
am 31.05.2007 um 16:42 Uhr:
Is there a possibility to set a role for “unregistered User”?
am 04.06.2007 um 20:53 Uhr:
Hi, thanks for the great plugin, it works well with wp 2.2.
I juat have a question; I want the editor to be able to add users but not to edit users, can this be possible?
Thanks
am 05.06.2007 um 20:37 Uhr:
Thank you very much.
am 11.06.2007 um 04:11 Uhr:
I submitted my question in comment #115 to the wordpress trac: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4353#preview
It looks like a core code issue rather than a plugin shortcoming.
As it is now, any access to the write page also gives access to the comments menu, where anyone can see the email/IP of all site commenters (a very bad thing).
While we wait for that release, is there at least a way I can cut any comment access from Contributors and Authors?
am 17.06.2007 um 18:30 Uhr:
Idaho Falls….I have a suggestion. I’m sure you don’t want to edit WP core code, but here’s a slightly less invasive option: comment out all instances of the word “Comments” so they don’t show up. This doesn’t change the behavior of WP, but hides it and leaves nothing for to click on. Similarly, you might comment out the table displayed on the Comments page where you can see the IP addresses. Here are my search results for Comments (capitalized only) in wp-admin: http://pastebin.com/930745 (good for one month from today). Back up first, your mileage may vary, and this suggestion is the idea of this user, not the site owner. Use at your own risk.
am 18.06.2007 um 00:44 Uhr:
Joel Rothschild is working on improving Owen Winkler’s Limit Cats plugin. It doesn’t work properly in 2.1.3, but it is a great complementary plugin to this one. The revision starts with some modifications to the original, two options, found here: http://mahzeh.org/?p=24
Then continues with a totally renewed version here: http://mahzeh.org/?p=25. There seems to be some trouble with the all-new version, but the modified version worked well for me. I hope the developer gets the new version working quickly, as it seems to address a lot of the concerns folks have expressed with comments being shown, such as Idaho Falls’ problem.
am 24.06.2007 um 13:27 Uhr:
First of all - my other project is finished (you remember the big box on the top of this page?) and I’m back now.
@KellyPutty:
This is not a server problem - you should remove the all parts from old Role Manager installations first and then do the steps from the installation-instruction.
@Morgan:
Yes, of course. The old settings are will be kept after the upgrade. If not, please give me a note. Hint: The underlaying databases are the same.
@Albandi:
All parts for unregistered users (also users are not loged in) implemented in the core of WordPress. If you want know if a user is loged in (only registered users can do this) or not you can find a solution in my german post here (translation should be easy)
No - or I don’t know it
@Israel:
I don’t know a way to do this. If a user can add user this user can also edit users. See also Comments #13, 14 and 15. This is a core issue.
@Idaho Falls:
I read all your comments, your tac-ticket and I understand your problem and why you are angry at this. I will contact you by email, because I’m interested to find a solution for situation like yours - but remember, please: This is not a Role Manager problem.
@Marci:
Maybe I will also implement such a function into the Role Manager. But I’m not sure if all Role Manager User want a merge with limit cats in one Plugin. And: Limit Cats will only limit which categories will appear in the post editor - not for reading. You can’t set a category to private.
am 26.06.2007 um 18:17 Uhr:
Great Plugin, I like it. I am looking for a role management tool for my wordpress site.
Thank you so much.
am 29.06.2007 um 20:36 Uhr:
Just FYI: I think I found a bug in Role Manager. Not one that really affects me, but since I saw it I thought I would mention. Also posted this comment on WP forums.
I’m using Role Manager 2.0.8, which works great unless you want to take an existing post (haven’t tested beyond that), and reassign that post to a new “Post Author” in the edit post screen. It only seems to list people I put into traditional (ie comes with WP) roles.
For the record, I am also using the following plugins besides Akismet(just in case it’s one of those):
Access By Category
Front Page Excluded Categories
am 29.06.2007 um 20:54 Uhr:
@Lynne:
Which WordPress version do you use? And: Can you post the link to your forums-post, please. I want monitoring the comments on the forum for this special issue. At the weekend I will check the WordPress-Code if you give me your WordPress-version. And please, can you leave also the links to your plugins (except Akismet) here?
am 29.06.2007 um 22:44 Uhr:
I’m on WP 2.2.1.
Forum post
Access By Category
Front Page Excluded Categories
am 30.06.2007 um 04:38 Uhr:
Thomas,
You’ve done a great job with Role-Manager and I wanted to say thanks.
I was also wondering if there is anyway to assign multiple roles to the same user?
For example, with your plugin I am able to use Wordpress to manage a membership site by assigning my users different roles which then have access to different categories.
However, each month I have to manually update each users role depending on whether they paid to access the content for that particular month.
I would like to be able to add a new role to each user every month (in addition to the role they already have) therefore giving them access to different content on the site based on their role.
Is there a way to make this possible within Role-Manager?
Thanks again!
Stu McLaren
am 30.06.2007 um 12:09 Uhr:
Hallo,
nachdem ich das Role Manager Plugin gefunden habe und es nun erfolgreich installiert und soweit begeistert eingesetzt habe, bin ich nun auf der Suche nach einer Funktion, bzw. einer Einschränkung, bei denen mit bisher weder im deutschen noch im englischen Forum jemand helfen konnte.
Ich würde gerne Autoren die Berechtigung geben, Kategorien zu erstellen, aber sie sollen Kategorien nicht löschen oder editieren könen. Vor allem sollen sie nicht die Kategorien der anderen Autoren löschen können.
Ist das realisierbar?
Die Lösung die ich im Moment habe, nämlich im Admin Panel via css die Kommentarseite komplett auszublenden ist unzufriedenstellend…
in der Hoffnung auf Hilfe
vielen Dank
Hannes
am 02.07.2007 um 00:23 Uhr:
@Stu:
Yes, the underlaying WordPress core supports more as one role for an user. The Role Manager doesn’t do this at the moment and such a feature isn’t on my roadmap yet, sorry.
For situations like yours I think it is a better way to change the userdata with an extra script and using a cronjob directly in the database. It is easier to coding such a way and using a Plugin like the Role Manager only to check the right settings.
If you don’t find any other help for your situation, maybe, I can help you - but only as a paid consultant, sorry. In this case you can contact me by email - using imwebgefunden at gmail.
am 02.07.2007 um 00:57 Uhr:
@Hannes:
Ich kenne nichts, was userbasierte Kategorien, wie Du sie haben möchtest, realisiert. Es gibt ein, zwei Lösungen, mit denen Du Usern erlauben kannst nur in bestimmten Kategorien zu posten - aber das ist ja nicht das was Du willst.
Das mit dem Ausblenden per CSS ist keine so gute Idee, da die User ja trotzdem darauf zugreigfen können, wenn sie die URL kennen. Aber was hat die Kommentarseite wiederum mit Kategorien zu tun? Das habe ich noch nicht so ganz verstanden. Kannst Du das noch mal beschreiben, bitte?
am 02.07.2007 um 08:34 Uhr:
Hi,
danke für die Antwort.
Natrülich hat die Kommentarseite damit nichts zu tun, sondern das ist nur ein Flüchtigkeitsfehler. Was mittels CSS ausgeblendet werden köntte um das editieren der Kategorien zu verhindern ist unter Verwalten im Adminbereich die Seite Verwalten/Kategorien.
Alternativ könnte man in der categories.php auch die Auflistung der Kategorien an dieser Stelle löschen. Was auch keine so elegante Lösung ist…
Mit anderen Worten, der Schreibschutz für Kategorien für alle außer den Admin ist bei Wordpress nicht realisierbar?
GRuß
Hannes
am 02.07.2007 um 22:59 Uhr:
@Hannes:
Nicht der Schreibschutz - sondern die Verwaltung der Kategorien. Und wer Kategorien verwalten darf, wird von WordPress intern über die Berechtigung/Capability “Manage Categories” geregelt. Und diese Berechtigung kannst Du über den Role Manager jedem zuweisen. Allerdings ist das für die Lösung Deines Problems zu wenig an Konfigurationsmöglichkeiten wenn ich Dich richtig verstanden habe, oder?
am 02.07.2007 um 23:06 Uhr:
…ja, das ist leider zu wenig für die Lösung meines Problems. Die Rollenzuweisung müsste die Möglichkeit bieten zu differenzieren, so wie das bei den Beiträgen in ähnlicher Form ja auch der Fall ist. Da kann man differenzieren, dass z.b. jemand nur seine eigenen Beiträge editieren und löschen kann.
Hannes
am 02.07.2007 um 23:21 Uhr:
Stimmt - gerade die Kategorieverwaltung kennt leider wie die Userverwaltung nur das “managen”. Und da der Role Manager nur das Verwalten kann, was WordPress auch intern kennt, bleibt eigentlich nichts weiter übrig als über ein Trac-Ticket mal bei den WordPress-Entwicklern nachzufragen, ob sie die Kategorieverwaltung intern noch verfeinern wollen. Oder man schreibt sich ein eigenes Plugin, daß eventuell vorhandene Hooks in
categories.phpnutzt.am 10.07.2007 um 11:16 Uhr:
Hi, Great plugin! Just one question.
I want a role group to be able to create new pages and posts, and edit the pages and posts they have made. I can’t seem to do this. Any Ideas?
Many THanks!
am 10.07.2007 um 21:48 Uhr:
@Adam:
Since version 2.1 WordPress knows also some capabilities for pages, e.g. “Publish Pages” and “Edit others Pages” and so on. Did you try them?
am 16.07.2007 um 04:37 Uhr:
noticed your using get_settings() which according to the following webpage is depreciated!
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_settings
just thought i should point it out in case you missed it
am 16.07.2007 um 12:50 Uhr:
I think these blog is really useful for new comers and Excellent resource list.
am 18.07.2007 um 02:36 Uhr:
Hi!
Great plugin, but i cant get it to work properly, when i’m ready creating a new role, and click “New Role” i just get a blank page, and no new role is created…
What can be wrong?
am 18.07.2007 um 16:03 Uhr:
Hi, I’m a total PHP newbie but I want to enable a custom capability. I want to disable ‘Manage Options’ but enable ‘Gallery’ (this admin menu is added by NextGEN gallery plugin).
Can you please tell me exactly what to do and which line to edit in role-manager.php? Thanks so much!
am 18.07.2007 um 17:17 Uhr:
@Kristoffer, make sure you have javascript enabled
@David, you don’t need to edit role-manager to add a capability, the whole point in role-manager is to allow you to do such things through the wordpress admin interface.
in the admin panel go to: users > roles, go to the very bottom to the section labeled ‘custom capabilities’, enter the name of the capability needed, and click the ‘create capability’ button.
really you shouldn’t need to do any of this though. if the plugin needed a capability it probably would have created it. if you create it manually, first of all you need to name it exactly as the plugin specifies it, secondly, you can’t just make a capability and expect the gallery plugin to use it, the gallery plugin needs to be modified to use it.
am 18.07.2007 um 17:41 Uhr:
Javascript is enabled… I also tried it on a Wordpress MU Installation, and same problem there… I would really like to have it working in my MU installation…
am 19.07.2007 um 00:08 Uhr:
@Blaze:
Thank you for your note - I fixed this in the developer versions some weeks ago and hope to finish with a complete new release in August. Also thanks for your answer on Davids question.
@Kristoffer:
The Role Manager doesn’t work with MU - see comments #20, #47 and #48, sorry.
am 19.07.2007 um 04:26 Uhr:
Hi Thomas and Blaze, thanks for answering my question. Now I understand.
am 22.07.2007 um 11:07 Uhr:
Hi Thomas
Thanks a lot for the plugin!
I’d like to create a role of temporary disabled users, that won’t be able to read the blog until enabled again. So I suppose they should have the user level 0 and I should change subscriber to 1, or?
Is it safe to do that or would if affect my blog functionality in other ways?
I appreciate your support -
Halina
am 23.07.2007 um 00:13 Uhr:
@Halina, take a look at the following plugin, it might suit your needs better: http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/maintenance-mode-plugin/
am 03.08.2007 um 08:08 Uhr:
Your Role Manager is a life saver. You just solved a problem for me that I have been working hours on.
am 03.08.2007 um 10:55 Uhr:
Hi Blaze
That’s kind of you, but in my scenario the blog should remain accessible for some users and inaccessible for others (it’s because it’s part of a paid membership site).
am 03.08.2007 um 18:02 Uhr:
@Halina:
Inaccessible for users? Question: What should get a anonymous user? A anonymous user is a user wasn’t logged in in the moment. Should this user get something from your blog or not?
am 04.08.2007 um 12:28 Uhr:
Hi Thomas
An anonymous user can’t access the blog (I use the ac_authenticator plugin). I’d like the temporarily disabled users to see the home page of the blog, but when they click on a post they get a message that they don’t have access.
My main question is: is it OK to change the user level for subscribers from 0 to 1, or could if affect my blog functionality in some unexpected ways? I mean, are there any functions in Wordpress that are depending on the subscriber level being 0?
Thanks!
am 04.08.2007 um 17:19 Uhr:
I just wanted to extend heartfelt thanks to you for rescuing this valuable plugin. I have no idea why the WP gang won’t make it a standard part of the WP distribution.
am 07.08.2007 um 14:06 Uhr:
Just to let you know, your stat counter does REALLY BAD THINGS to my Mac Firefox. It hangs the page for at least 60 seconds.
To wit:
is not accurate. It should be:
am 07.08.2007 um 18:26 Uhr:
How do you add new plugins?
I want to give access to maintaining a calendar to Editors. But it is a plugin. I tried to add it using the New Custom Capability but nothing happened.
am 07.08.2007 um 23:51 Uhr:
You need to hack the plugin itself (or a gateway function to it) to use the new capability.
Basically, all adding a new capability does is to give a response to the
current_user_can('foo')function. It’s explained fairly well here.am 08.08.2007 um 05:46 Uhr:
Great plugin! I really like the user interface too, its nicely laid out and the icons are pretty.
However, I am too getting the error (i think you are already aware of “You cannot remove the Edit Users capability from yourself.”, so I disable the plug-in until I need it. I’m using WordPress 2.2.
am 08.08.2007 um 11:46 Uhr:
I also get the error:
Cannot redeclare class rolemanager in httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/rolemanager/role-manager.php on line 22, referer: /wp-admin/users.php?page=rolemanager/role-manager.phpCould it be that wordpress loads the plugin with ajax twice?am 09.08.2007 um 10:17 Uhr:
@Halina:
Change the user_level is not the right way, in my mind of course. I think a better way is using extra capabilities for your special user. If you are familiar with theme-development you can use
current_user_can. Please, read my comment above. If you are not familiar with theme-development user-level-changing can’t also help you. With User-Level-Changing maybe you can get undesirable effects for your blogsecurity. Hope this answer is a little help for you.@Webmaster:
First: I don’t like such nicknames - nobody is perfect
Okay - lets go to the facts: I never saw a problem with statcounter. I checked your note on Mac’s Safari and Firefox - all is okay and the timing-values are right. And: the timing-values at bottom are values to generate a page on a webserver and don’t values for rendering a page on a browser.
Why is Role Manager not a core part of WordPress? Only some percent of WordPress-User need this function really on their blogs. The mission is: Keep code as small as possible. This are the reasons why Role Manager isn’t a core part.
@Kym:
Please read also my comment #80 and this page. And yes, you need to hack the other plugin not the Role Manager!
@Steveorevo:
Can you explain this a little bit more, please.
@Jemand:
Jemand Anderes hat auf die Frage schon mal ‘ne Antwort bekommen.
First remove all parts from older versions (1.4.5) when do the steps for installation. Reason: since version 2.0.0 Role Manager exists in
role-managerand no longer inrolemanager(see Changelog). Remove all parts fromrolemanagerand you get itam 09.08.2007 um 10:25 Uhr:
Thanks Thomas, that was exactly the answer I needed.
Best wishes
Halina
am 09.08.2007 um 10:30 Uhr:
Nice to hear
am 12.08.2007 um 02:54 Uhr:
It’s “Chris.” I certainly wasn’t using it as a boast (although I am pretty good at this stuff). I had originally entered my email address, which was webmaster@xxx, and your reg wouldn’t let me do it, so I just chopped off everything after the mailbox.
Hm…It doesn’t happen with any of my other browsers, but it happens EVERY TIME with this one. I have FF pretty loaded up with extensions. I have Web Developer (of course), DOM Inspector (of course), Firebug (of course), WML Browser, XHTML Mobile Profile, Fangs, Mozex and del.ici.o.us.
Maybe it’s one of those that makes it barf. In any case, this site is the only one that it happens on. I like these extensions too much to give them up.
Again, sincere thanks for keeping it up. I let the original developers (Henry and Owen) know about it, and they seemed thrilled. I’d suggest making yourself a bit better known at wordpress.org. No one seems to know about this, and everyone is complaining about the original plugin being broken.
am 12.08.2007 um 10:57 Uhr:
Critical bug found and solved: Rolemanager 2.0.8 + Gengo 0.9.1 together cause WordPress 2.2.2 to crash.
Solution: In role-manager.php:
function role_manager_init()
{
load_plugin_textdomain(’role-manager’,$path = ‘wp-content/plugins/role-manager/languages’);
}
add_action(’init’, ‘role_manager_init’);
instead of the plain load_plugin_textdomain …
Works for me.
ps. Check http://wp-multilingual.net/download-gengo/compatibility/en/#comment-71 for the details.
am 13.08.2007 um 04:16 Uhr:
Duh. David House, not Henry. I deal with a lot of people I’ve never met, and sometimes get them mixed up.
am 14.08.2007 um 21:11 Uhr:
@LostInNetwork:
Thank you for your note. I will fix this issue at the weekend and release a new version. Thank you again.
@Webmaster Chris:
Leave your extentions untouched. I will contact you by email to figure out the problem - and to fix it of course
And then we can talk also about Role Manager, me and wordpress.org. Hope this is okay for you.
am 15.08.2007 um 21:41 Uhr:
I’d like to see the rolemanager plugin evolve into more of a permission/access system for logged in users,
the current WP roles are more about editing capabilities than page access
i also notice with the role manager plugin that you can create a capability (name) but you can not delete it, is this suppose to be like that ?
am 15.08.2007 um 21:46 Uhr:
Sorry - but I don’t talk with an alias with such a email-address
am 15.08.2007 um 22:54 Uhr:
This is a great addition/fix for the original plug-in (which never worked for me). So far it’s great. Keep up the good work!
am 16.08.2007 um 00:39 Uhr:
Thanks Sky. I will do my best.
am 16.08.2007 um 01:52 Uhr:
Hey now, your form asked for a username and an email address that it says will not use so why give out the stuff when you don’t have to
)
unless you intended to do something with the email like sell it to third-party
with every form on the web asking for something, i took a stand and said No he he
am 16.08.2007 um 02:46 Uhr:
That’s a cool nice joke
The form ask for a name - not a username, a homepage (if you have one) and an email-address.
Why should I sell an email-address from a westcoast guy who lives in San Diego and uses Safari on a Mac with screenresolution from 1280×1024??? Why???
Did you have ever heart what an open source coder sell email-addresses??? Did you look in all plugin-codes and understand them? Are all plugins save and “don*t call at home”? If you don’t trust in me then don’t use my software!!!!
am 16.08.2007 um 11:58 Uhr:
It’s a good thing i’m using fire fox browser with screen 1024 and live in sacramento, I just love the web
)
well you still ain’t getting my email address, using your plugin and trusting you are two different things, I only wanted to provide you some feedback on your plugin, i don’t know you from harry and joppy the clown so don’t expect trust without buying me dinner first
it’s bad enough that your making us do math just to add a comment
besides you don’t need my email to accept a comment so it shouldn’t matter what email or username someone uses,
am 16.08.2007 um 14:45 Uhr:
Hey, I’m the one in San Diego…. don’t mistaken it for Sacramento, further North they kinda get all wierd… especially about privacy and stuff… hell I’m the one that works for a privacy rights firm! but you can have my email
… LOL
am 16.08.2007 um 22:31 Uhr:
@alias:
It’s a nice conversation - a little bit off topic here. If you come to berlin I will buying you a dinner
Oh so sorry, I don’t know that math is a problem for you. Spam isn’t a german invention. Most spammers and their bots with v….a and c…. have ip-addresses from USA, sorry. It’s only a way to have more time - also to make a good job for the Role Manager Plugin.
For me it is an act of courtesy using real names or good nicknames if someone do something for me. Maybe, you have an other point of view …
But: Please respect also my point of view. And now - use “Purge unused capabilities” and give finally peace.
@Steveorevo:
Thx
I’m waiting for your answer (Did you read my response?) With the next release you need two capabilities for using the Role Manager: “Edit Users” and “Manage Roles and Caps”. Will this help you or did I misunderstand your note?
am 16.08.2007 um 22:49 Uhr:
hi
im translate this plug-in to persian(farsi) language how can send to u ? please contact me . thanks …
am 17.08.2007 um 00:20 Uhr:
Yes - I send you an email but now I saw I used a wrong receiver
The email is on the road to you. I’m so sorry about that.
Thomas
am 17.08.2007 um 00:38 Uhr:
Yes, the two capabilities for using the Role Manager: “Edit Users” and “Manage Roles and Caps” will help! Excellent work! Thank you!
am 17.08.2007 um 00:48 Uhr:
@Steveorevo:
In the next two weeks I plain to make a feature freeze (for myself) of the new series 2.2 of the Role Manager. After this a public beta test is started, because I changed so many things.
am 18.08.2007 um 07:02 Uhr:
Hello,
Is It working with WordPress MU?
I installed it onto 1.2.4 version of WordPress MU,
it added Roles menu to Users tag
And showed current roles succesfully,
When I want to add a new role, It gave following error
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /var/**********plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php on line 187
am 19.08.2007 um 08:43 Uhr:
This plugin is great. I was afraid to add other writers to help me with my blog. Now I won’t be. Thank you so much for the plugin.
am 24.08.2007 um 11:53 Uhr:
Hi, thank you for great plugin.
I work with a writer. I don’t want to writer to write new article.
She can edit exists articles only.
How can do that with your plugin?
Thank you for help.
am 24.08.2007 um 15:57 Uhr:
Hallo,
http://liseweb.fr/BLOG/?page_id=160). Als ich die neue .mo Datei benutze, sind die ersten Linien nicht mehr in Französich sondern in Englisch:
Ich habe gerade Role Manager heraufgeladen und installiert. Das funktioniert prima!
Ich wollte die französiche Übersetzung korrigieren (ich habe schon einige Plugins übersetzt
“This page is for editing what capabilities are associated with each role. To change the capabilities of a specific user, click on Authors & Users, then click Edit next to the user you want to change. You can add new roles as well.”
Wäre es möglich, die Aktionen (capabilities) und die Rollen zu übersetzen, also in die .pot Datei hinzufügen?
am 25.08.2007 um 12:04 Uhr:
@dark rd:
No it doesn’t work with MU, yet.
@Osman:
Sorry, I don’t understand this. Please can you explain me this?
@Lise:
Danke. Ich schaue mir das ganze mal an. Oder hast Du vielleicht die Entwicklerversion von sf genommen? Da habe ich die Sprachdateien noch nicht neu erstellt. Das Problem könnte also auch da liegen …
am 29.08.2007 um 04:46 Uhr:
Hi. Great plugin. I’m a little confused about the tags– why isn’t role-management.php in the 2.0.8 tag?
am 29.08.2007 um 05:27 Uhr:
I just submitted a patch for trunk, which is neither a “developer release” or a tag, so I wasn’t sure if the big red warning box applied to me
Link to patch
am 29.08.2007 um 19:01 Uhr:
@John:
)
Thanks for your patch. (I ‘ve made your link a little bit beautiful
role-management.phpis from the developer release. The 2.0.x-series don’t have the three new pages.Good idea: I will add the trunk as an option. Sorry, for the big red warning box in your case. Thanks for all, John.
am 30.08.2007 um 15:34 Uhr:
Hi, (pointing to this post)
with a little patch rolemanager seems to work with wordpress-mu. just added 2 lines to check if wp_roles is set. not tested very much though…
Andy
function handle_new_role_creation() {
global $wp_roles;
+ if ( ! isset($wp_roles) )
+ $wp_roles = new WP_Roles();
if (empty($_POST['role-name'])) {
$this->error(__('You must enter a role name.'));
am 30.08.2007 um 15:43 Uhr:
Hallo,
ich habe die version von dieser Seite heraufgeladen (v 2.0.8)
http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wp-content/downloads/plugins/role-manager.zip
am 30.08.2007 um 19:46 Uhr:
@Andy:
Which MU-Version do you have? First let me check out a problem with franche translation and when I will give you a pre-release with your two lines by email to check if it work. Thank you, so much.
Only these two lines? Thats amazing
@Lise:
Ich schaue mir die Sprachdateien noch mal genau an. Vielleicht habe ich doch schon zu viel in der 2.0-Serie geändert, so dass sie nicht mehr richtig sind. Ich schick’ Dir dann ‘ne Email. Über die Übersetzung der Rollen und Berechtigungen läßt sich streiten. Bei den Rollen sehe ich kein Problem. Eher bei den Berechtigungen. Das könnte viele Leute verwirren, da die Berechtigungen bei vielen Beschreibungen und Plugins auf Englisch angegeben sind. Aber was hälst Du davon, wenn man die übersetzten Capabilities als Hilfe beim Überfahren (Hover) mit der Maus anzeigt?
am 30.08.2007 um 19:55 Uhr:
Die übersetzten Capabilities als Hilfe beim Überfahren mit der Maus anzeigen ist eine gute Idee
am 30.08.2007 um 22:40 Uhr:
Hello,
I am using you role manager plugin and really like it. My site is an educational site where anyone can register, but I have a special role, for my students how have access to certain pages that subscribers do not.
My questions is that I want to edit the capabilities so that certain pulgin features like (the extend profile or subscriber 2) can be disabled for the basic subscriber.
These capabilities are not listed. If I just add a capabilities with those names, nothing really happens.
Please let me know what can I do to fix this.
Thanks.
am 31.08.2007 um 08:47 Uhr:
Akram:
I can’t find your plugins in the web. Please can you give me the urls of plugins which supports capabilities and don’t work for you?
am 31.08.2007 um 14:08 Uhr:
@Thomas
I have wordpress-mu-1.2.4 (latest version) installed and with the 2 lines create and delete works properly. Just the edit does not seems to work , maybe some ajax or browser problem.
Andy
am 31.08.2007 um 22:36 Uhr:
I have a conflict between Role-Manager and Anarchy media Player (http://an-archos.com/anarchy-media-player). Specifically the auto-hyperlink function fails. Any ideas?
Chris
am 05.09.2007 um 16:26 Uhr:
Hey Thomas. I am a plugin author and I get asked by users to let different roles to access plugin pages in the dashboard. I send them to your plugin but apparently this isn’t enough, my plugin must be ready too.
I confess I never considered the problem (I am a loner blogger) and I have no clue on how to implement that inside the plugins (I am not a professional coder).
Can you suggest me a plugin where to copy code from, or a codex page that can help me prepare my plugins for roles? One in particular is “Stray Quotes”. The plugin can create and alter tables, and modify a bunch of options - so it is safe in the hand of a administrator: but users want to add or edit quotes from its management page.
am 10.09.2007 um 17:39 Uhr:
@Christopher:
No, I haven’t any idea - but I don’t know the Anarchy Media Player. If i have a little bit more time I will look for it.
@corpodibacco:
Did you read my page with additional information? You can find also information-links in the section “Other Ressources (external)” above on this page. The best way is using the function
current_user_can. Also you can look in my Plugin “IWG Extended Author List” as an example. If my answer isn’t help enough - feel free to give me a note here.am 10.09.2007 um 21:36 Uhr:
I didn’t know those pages. It’s all in there! Thanks a million for being so helpful.
am 12.09.2007 um 12:21 Uhr:
Apache/1.3.27
PHP Version 5.2.1
Mysql/5.0.27
Gengo 0.9
Role Management 2.0.8
After the isntallation of Gengo 0.9, when installing Role Management 2.0.8 will show blank pages . How should we resolve this issue? We’ve also tried Gengo 0.91a but still the same problem.
am 12.09.2007 um 17:02 Uhr:
@Steven:
I know this issue (see this comment). I will release a new version what fix it in the next days.
am 13.09.2007 um 13:18 Uhr:
Hello Thomas,
Thanks a lot for the wonderful plug-in. It helped me manage the users of my Wordpress site with lot of flexibility. My site is not a blog and i have chosen to use wordpress as a cms.
I have found one hitch with the role manager. When we change the userlevel of Administrator role in the manager to something like 9 i..e lesser than 10, which is required to integrate wordpress with legacy web applications that share the db with wordpress on my site, then the Administrator role cannot manage the email options for the site. Role manager also does not provide any default capabilities assigned to ‘Manage Email’ which is a capability handled by wordpress. I would be pleased if you can do something in this regard.
Thanks in advance.
Dr. Praveen Baratam
am 16.09.2007 um 02:26 Uhr:
@LostInNetwork and Steven:
Yesterday I released Role Manager version 2.0.9. This fix the issue with blank page and now Role Manager works fine with Gengo. Hope this is good news for you:)
@Andy:
In version 2.0.9 I included your two lines for WordPress-MU.
@Dr. Baratam:
I only know one place to manage email-options: Options-Discussion. Hope this is the place you addressed in your comment
I checked this on 2.2 and on 2.3.-beta-3. On both versions I changed the admin level to 9. I can access the Discussion-Options with level 9. The needed capability is “Manage Options” to get access. The core of WordPress don’t know a capability “Manage Email”. (I checked the complete source-code of WordPress) This is the reason why WordPress don’t handle this capability. If you create a capabilty “Manage Email” it will have no effects without extra coding a plugin to handle this capability.
I agree that only one capability (Manage Options) isn’t enough for finetuning. But my question in the moment is why you can’t access the Discussion-Options with level 9.
I would help you to find a solution for this. Which version of WordPress do you use? Do you use extra plugins for administration?
am 17.09.2007 um 22:42 Uhr:
If I am using role manager with Wordpress MU do I need to do anything special? Or does the patch just do what it’s supposed to when the plugin is added to MU? (Great plugin, by the way. I love it!!)
am 20.09.2007 um 11:35 Uhr:
@Ben:
I’m not a MU-Expert (in the moment). I put the both lines in the new release to make it easier for more people to figure out where are the problems between MU and the Role Manager.
am 21.09.2007 um 13:38 Uhr:
Hallo, ich habe erst vor ein paar Tagen meine erste wpmu Seite aufgesetzt, und benutze wegen dem ImageManager von Per Soderlind, Version: 2.4.1 den RoleManager Von Owen Winkler, Version: 1.4.5
Hmm, jetzt sehe ich gerade, dass der ImageManager auf eine ganz ander version des RoleManagers verweist, und ich daher den falschen (?) installiert habe?
Jedenfalls habe ich Probleme mit dem “remove from your yourself bug”
Ich werde mal recherchieren, ob ich den hier angebotenen RoleManager für ImageManager 2.4.1 verwenden kann. ( <- Ist der überhaupt aktuell? )
Ok, Dein role-manager ist also eine Anpassung an die neueste wp version, und ist aus dem RoleManager hervorgegangen. Leider kann ich ihn mit dem PluginManager-plugin nicht in wpmu-1.2.5a installieren: “An Error occured”. Werd’s mal von “Hand” probieren.
am 21.09.2007 um 18:27 Uhr:
@floogy:
Das Role Manager Plugin unterstützt WPMU momentan nicht. Du kannst es maximal unter
/plugins/in WPMU installieren. Aber dort funktioniert es nicht wirklich. Bei den Autoplugins von µ (/mu-plugins/geht es definitiv nicht. Da fehlt nicht nur eine zusätzliche Datei sondern die Pfade stimmen nicht.am 22.09.2007 um 21:57 Uhr:
Ich habe den RoleManager nun unter /plugins/ installiert.
Der Fehler mit dem pludinInstaller-plugin ist wohl darauf zurückzuführen, dass das alte RoleManagerplugin auch schon in dem Ordner /role-manager/ installiert war. Nachdem ich das umbenannte in rolemanager, klappte die - manuelle - Installation.
Das funktioniert allerdings nur unter wpmu.domain.de, also die ursprüngliche wpmu Seite, unter blog1.wpmu.domain.de geht das nicht, auch nicht als admin.
Die Blogs die ich bereits anlegte können mit dem RoleManager also nicht bearbeitet werden, nur der “admin”-Blog (Installations-Blog), dort funktioniert auch das umschalten der einzelnen Rollen.
Ich hoffe, dass Du bald die wpmu Integration schaffst, das würde enorm helfen. Danke für Deine Arbeit an diesem Plugin.
am 23.09.2007 um 19:52 Uhr:
Thanks..
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am 25.09.2007 um 00:35 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
I want to create an internal multi-author-blog for dedicated readers only. Idea is that Readers register and then the Admin sets them as Readers. I have tried a combination of Angsumans Authenticated Wordpress Plugin (only registered users get access to the blog) and removing read-capability from the subscriber role. This does not work. Any Ideas how I could do this?
am 25.09.2007 um 10:40 Uhr:
@Cedric:
I don’t know Angsumans Plugin but I read a little bit on his website. First I saw that his Plugin is only tested on 1.5 and 2.0 of WordPress. But I read also some comments with statements what the Plugin works with newer WordPress-Versions. But on no place I can’t find the information for disabling the read-capability. I think asking Angsumans can be more helpful for your situation.
am 25.09.2007 um 18:46 Uhr:
I was curious if there is a way to allow an editor roll to edit the sidebar, but not the core site template?
am 25.09.2007 um 19:11 Uhr:
The Role Menager is great, I have is Wordpress 2.2.3 and this plugin work great
am 26.09.2007 um 02:43 Uhr:
Hi Thomas, great work on the plug-in! I have the same concerns as Murph’s Mom (#51). I want to restrict the ability to change roles/capabilities. I don’t want people who have the edit_users capability to be able to change other people’s roles (specifically the administrator’s). These people can also access the Role Manager plug-in admin page.
In March 2007 you said you’d be fixing this in a future release. Any updates on that? Thank you!
am 26.09.2007 um 11:10 Uhr:
@Dana:
This is not a Role Manager problem. WordPress core doesn’t support this. Do you want allow the role editing the sidebar-template or something on a sidebar-widget?
@Bryan:
If you use the code from trunk - at your own risk of course - you get this feature. At next weekend I plan to release the second developer release and after that I intend to create a new pot-file for translaters and finishing the new Role Manager internal help. If you use the current stable release, you have only the way to disable the Role Manager after you are finished with your setup.
This is not a fix - this is a new feature
am 26.09.2007 um 12:05 Uhr:
Hi Thomas, I have been using your great plug-in for some time now! I have just installed a test blog with Wordpress 2.3, before updating my real blog. I was very happy to see that Role Manager is included in the core of this new version.
1.Does this mean I do NOT have to install your plugin anymore?
2.When upgrading to v2.3 must I first disable and uninstall the existing role manager plugin?
3.Should I be looking for your updates here and if yes how would I apply them to my blog?
And for the bonus question. I love the way I can preview my comment underneath. Where can I find the plugin for this? Thank you
am 26.09.2007 um 13:07 Uhr:
@greekvisualarts:
No, the Role Manager is not part of WordPress 2.3 core. Where is the place you has download your copy of WordPress? Can you see the Role Manager on your Plugins-Page? Which version do you see?
am 26.09.2007 um 13:10 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
Too much work and not enough sleep produce funny results. PLZ disregard my last comment about your plugin being part of wordpress 2.3 I installed it so automatically I forgot I did.
Still, fill me up about your comments preview plugin. Thanx
am 26.09.2007 um 13:47 Uhr:
@greekvisualarts:
No problem
The Plugin is “Live Comment Preview“. But I don’t kow if it is working with WordPress 2.3.
am 26.09.2007 um 22:19 Uhr:
@Thomas:
I would like them to be able to edit the sidebar widgets
am 26.09.2007 um 22:29 Uhr:
@Dana:
The core of WordPress don’t support this. You need additional coding or a plugin for this. But I don’t know such a plugin, sorry.
That I imagined
am 03.10.2007 um 04:39 Uhr:
Great plugin!
Question: I’ve taken away the ability to “publish” anything for a certain group. Now, instead of “publish” they get “submit for review”.
Is there a way I can add, to my dashboard page, a note that’ll let me know that something’s awaiting approval?
am 03.10.2007 um 13:50 Uhr:
THanks for the great plugin, couldn’t live without it!
I am having trouble with one thing recently. The “delete others posts” option is not working, if I uncheck this feature, the editor can still go in and delete other people’s posts. The only way I can stop it is if I uncheck the “delete published posts” option, but I want the editor to be able to create and deleter their own posts.
thanks
am 03.10.2007 um 14:28 Uhr:
Hi there,
Your plugin appears to be causing a problem with the new “Submit for review” feature in WP 2.3. We’ve have given authors the following rights: Read, Edit Published Posts, Edit Posts, Unfiltered HTML, Delete Posts and Upload Files. This means they may not publish posts directly, as you see. So in WP 2.3, when they create a new post, they don’t see the “Publish” button, they will only see the “Submit for Review” button. This goes well if a new post isn’t saved as draft before submitting for review. However, if a post is first saved as draft, and then the author clicks on the “Submit for Review” button, the post gets published right away instead of being submit for review. I’ve tried this on a clean WordPress without your plugin, no problems there.
Do you have a fix for this, or a way to fully uninstall your plugin (with default user roles)?
Thanks for your time.
am 03.10.2007 um 14:50 Uhr:
I have been testing some more. Apparantly “Edit Published Posts” causes the problem. When I disable it all goes well. So I’m guessing this might be more of a WordPress-bug, as apparantly WordPress sees draft-posts als published now. Nevertheless, the problem only occurs when using your plugin (and thus editing the roles/capabilities). Maybe you want to list it as a know issue for other people with this problem.
am 04.10.2007 um 13:04 Uhr:
@Mike:
I don’t know, but I think it should be possible with some lines of code.
@Paul:
This looks like a WordPress Bug. Which version of WordPress do you have?
@Simon:
Simon, thank you to point out this. I believe that my answer will not please you, sorry
First the technical part:
The issue happens also if you create a new post and wait for the first autosaving. If you pressing the “Submit for Review”-Button after this time, the post will also gets published. Yes, it is right - the capability “Edit published Posts” causes the problem. You can find the sourcecode in
/wp-admin/includes/post.phpinfunction edit_post, Line 69:This was the technical part.
I’ve talked with some people about your problem. All of them are the same opinion as I. If you don’t trust a user, don’t give him the capability “”Edit published Posts”. Why not? You don’t trust your user - this is the reason why you taken away the capability “publish”. After reviewing you publish his draft. If the user has now the capability, to edit this published post, he can change everything without you get a notice about that. Where is the reason for your first review if a user can change everything after it is published? I my mind, this breaks your control about your blog in any case.
am 04.10.2007 um 14:12 Uhr:
Hi,
I was hoping to allow subscribers to view their profile only. How ever by default their is a link to the Dashboard. I was hoping that rolemanager would enable me to stop subscribers accessing the dashboard.
I have tried creating a capability but nothing happens.
Any suggestions?
Regards,
Steve.
am 04.10.2007 um 14:38 Uhr:
No, the wordpress core don’t know something like “Hide Dashboard”. But I remember a plugin called “Hide Dashboard” but I can’t find this at the moment.
am 04.10.2007 um 18:38 Uhr:
Thanks for the prompt and honest response Thomas.
I found a fairly simple and effective way to stop subscribers going to the dashboard (although the dashboard tab still shows).
open /admin/index.php and line two says -
require_once('admin.php');add this line straight after that -
if (!current_user_can('level_10') ) wp_redirect("profile.php");Now, even if they try accessing the page directly via url it will Keep redirecting them to their profile.
Regards.
am 06.10.2007 um 20:55 Uhr:
Thanks for your reply Thomas. I understand your point, however, at the blog where we encountered this we just want to control the number of posts per day. The articles posted are fairly long and our authors put a lot of time and effort in them, so we want to make sure each article gets the attention it deserves. It’s not really a matter of trust, it’s a fairly professional and serious blog. However, often an author wants to correct something in his article, so that’s why we do give them the right to edit their own posts after publishing.
I will look into WP’s core to see if I can hack it. Far from the prettiest solution but I guess I don’t have another choice.
However, I still think this is a bug in WP since users can publish posts without having the right to do so. Apparantly the saving tricks the system into publishing the post without having the right to do so. I’ll post it on the WP forums soon.
Thanks for sorting it out!
am 08.10.2007 um 00:46 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
Let me thank you for doing such a good job in developing Role Manager. There is something that I would like to get working though … is it possible to disable ‘Write’ and ‘Create New Page’ options for a User Role? I’m trying to create a role that allows it’s user to edit existing pages, but not create new ones. How could I acheive this?
am 08.10.2007 um 10:54 Uhr:
@deep.thought:
Today I released a new Plugin “IWG Hide Dashboard” to handle this without hacking the code
@Simon:
Can you give me the link to your forums post. I want monitor it.
@Ulysses:
Did you set the right author for the page?
am 08.10.2007 um 11:16 Uhr:
I just posted it Thomas, here’s the link:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/137716
am 08.10.2007 um 21:14 Uhr:
Did you set the right author for the page?
If I understand you correctly Thomas, the pages are set to ‘Editor’ privelages and I have the following options enabled:
NextGEN Manage Gallery
NextGEN Upload Images
NextGEN Gallery Overview
Edit Private Pages
Edit Pages
Edit Published Pages
Edit Others Pages
Read
User Level: 10
Yet, although the Editor user can edit the existing pages, there certainly seems to be no way of disabling the ability to create/write new pages. Is there perhaps a walkthrough that might shed some light on how to do this exactly?
am 09.10.2007 um 00:40 Uhr:
@Simon:
Thank you for the link. An other way is to post it on the trac as a new bug.
@Ulysses:
Try it with an single user first. Imagine you have an user called, Anton. Create as Administrator a new page and set Anton as the author for this page. Go to Antons profile and remove the capability “Edit Pages” and “Publish Pages” and set the capability “Edit published Pages”. Anton now should can edit the page you created before, but shouldn’t create a new page.
Try this on a regular page and not a page created from an other plugin.
am 09.10.2007 um 23:05 Uhr:
Nice work. Thanks.
am 10.10.2007 um 12:04 Uhr:
Hallo!
nach dem aktivieren des Plugins konnte ich nicht mehr in das Pluginmenü (Du hast nicht ausreichend Rechte, um auf diese Seite zuzugreifen.) obwohl ich alle Rechte besitze. Ich kann jetzt meine Plugins weder aktivieren noch deaktivieren. Habe ich bei der Installation etwas falsch gemacht? Meine Wordpressversion ist 2.3 DE
am 10.10.2007 um 16:20 Uhr:
@Érik:
Thanks, back
@Thomas:
Ich glaube Du hast da was anderes verstellt … Der Role Manager macht bei seiner Aktivierung nichts. Jedenfalls nichts an irgendwelchen Berechtigungen. Hast Du oder Deine Rolle die Berechtigung? Schau mal unter Deinem User nach, ob Du da nicht separat die Berechtigung entfernt hast. Du kommst zu den Berechtigungen für einen einzelnen User - auch Deinen - nicht über Profil sondern über “Autoren & Benutzer”. Dort mußt Du Deinen User auswählen. Am Ende der sich dann öffnenden Seite siehst Du die Einzelberechtigungen für Deinen Benutzer.
Und: Plugins kann man auch einfach dadurch deaktivieren, in dem man sie aus dem
plugins-Directory löscht. Aber das wird Dir in Deinem Fall nicht viel weiter helfen …am 10.10.2007 um 20:19 Uhr:
Super, danke für deine rasche Antwort!
Du hast zu 100 % Recht, ich hab schon alle Plugins vom Verzeichnis gelöscht - ich komme trotzdem nicht weiter. Irgendeine Einstellung wurde in meiner Datenbank verstellt, ich weiß allerdings absolut nicht wo und was?!?!
am 11.10.2007 um 22:58 Uhr:
Thomas,
Is it just me? but when I disable ‘Edit Pages’ the ‘Manage’ tab is completely missing and thus the user cannot edit any published pages … or in fact, any pages.
am 13.10.2007 um 20:53 Uhr:
Thank you for working on this plugin.
I want to set a post as “premium content” but don’t see how to do it. Is there a how-to file someplace?
am 14.10.2007 um 11:51 Uhr:
@Ulysses:
My information was for posts and I can’t see differences for pages. But I’m not able to try it in the moment.
@Mary:
This is the way. But: knowledge for theme-developing is needed.
am 14.10.2007 um 15:48 Uhr:
Thomas,
Thank you for the link, but I’m not sure I understand. That comment looks as though it deals with creating new roles. What I want is simpler, I think.
In the roles check list, one of the options is for a premium content subscriber. I can set a user to be a premium content subscriber, but I can’t figure out how to make the content “premium.”
Thanks!
Mary
am 15.10.2007 um 12:36 Uhr:
does anyone know what the correct way to control the POST-AVATAR plugin is? I want only Administrators to be able to use Avatars.
Regards
Darren
am 17.10.2007 um 17:04 Uhr:
@Mary:
I don’t know a capability “premium content”. And where is the “Roles Check List”? Do you use an special plugin?
@Darren:
Please ask the author of the “post avatar plugin”.
am 18.10.2007 um 02:23 Uhr:
I found one major issue, it doesn’t reset the default WP roles after you deactivate it, I”m happy to say bye bye to this plugin
am 18.10.2007 um 19:05 Uhr:
@alias:
Back again!? This isn’t a bug - it’s a feature. And some people need this feature.
am 19.10.2007 um 17:40 Uhr:
Fantastic plugin. I’m loving it. You rock so much.
am 22.10.2007 um 14:30 Uhr:
Hello, great plugin!
However I’d like to ask, is it possible to allow editors to editor other user profiles, but disable them from editing other user roles?
Currently I have a couple of “editors” who can editor user profiles but they can also see their own roles.
am 23.10.2007 um 14:46 Uhr:
I have a big problem… I used this plugin on wpmu and renamed my admin account and now I can’t login at all… wp-admin keeps redirecting until it dies… other users can still login but i’m locked out… I restored a prev db backup of my wp-users/wp-user meta table and still nothing… any ideas would be great…
am 24.10.2007 um 08:22 Uhr:
Hallo Thomas,
vielen Dank für Dein tolles Plugin! Es läuft super. (WP 2.2.3)
Eine Frage dazu: Kann man User von der Kommentarübersicht im Backend ausschließen? In der Kommentarübersicht werden nämlich e-Mail Adresse und IP Nummer der Kommentatoren angezeigt und wir möchten nicht, dass das jeder sehen kann. Ich habe schon versucht, das in der edit-comments.php auszuprogrammieren, aber das hat nicht geklappt. Einfacher wäre es, wenn die User die Kommentarübersicht garnicht erst sehen. Kann man das irgendwie über den Role-Manager steuern oder bräuchte man dafür, wie für das Dashboard, ein separates Plugin?
Viele Grüße,
Rita
am 24.10.2007 um 10:59 Uhr:
@Ryan:
With Role Manager versions 2.0.x you have to disable the Role Manager after editing Roles and Capabilities, because all users with capability “edit_users” also can using the Role Manager. Next version (will be released in some days) you need an extra capability for the Role Manager.
@Bart:
The Role Manager don’t works with wpmu (see also many comments here). But I’m working on a special version for wpmu.
Which µ you are using? Did you use the Role Manager as normal plugin or as autoactivated plugin? Is your login a sideadmin-account?
@Rita:
Mit dem Role Manager lässt es sich so jedenfalls nicht lösen. Man benötigt ein zusätzliches Plugin. Allerdings kenne ich keins, das diese Aufgabe löst. In nächster Zeit werde ich vermutlich selber vor dem Problem stehen. Solltest Du also ‘ne Lösung oder einen Ansatz haben/finden würde ich mich über ‘ne Info freuen.
Ich kenne das Problem durch die Kommentare von Idaho Falls (erster Kommentar, zweiter Kommentar). Leider habe ich im Moment auch keine Lösung
am 24.10.2007 um 16:59 Uhr:
@Bart again:
You have to restore also the the options table of your blog, eg wp_1_options. The set with roles, eg wp_1_user_roles, is important. WPMU needs an Role called Administrator. I don’t know why in the moment, but this Role is important if you are a side-administrator. Without this Role you can’t login on your primary blog but you can log in with your account on an other blog.
I hope this will help you.
am 24.10.2007 um 20:12 Uhr:
Thomas, schau mal hier:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/119659?replies=6
Viele Grüße,
Rita
am 24.10.2007 um 22:18 Uhr:
Ich begrüsse, Thomas!
Ich habe auf die russische Sprache Role Manager übersetzt, schreiben Sie mir auf die Post, damit ich ihn Ihnen übergeben konnte!
am 27.10.2007 um 09:10 Uhr:
Hallo Thomas
danke für das hervorragende Plugin! Ich habe da ein Frage:
Ich kann ohne Probleme eine neue Berechtigung anlegen. Aber welche Berechtigung diese neue Berechtigung hat, das kann ich nirgendwo festlegen. Mache ich einen Denkfehler, wenn ich sage, dass diese Funktionen dann irgenwie sinnlos ist
Nein im Ernst: Muss ich die Berechtigungen hardcodieren? Wie ich auch eine neue Usergruppe (Role) hardcodieren kann??
Danke vorab!
am 27.10.2007 um 11:33 Uhr:
This plugin has saved me a lot of time. Amazing job! Keep up the good work.
am 27.10.2007 um 22:32 Uhr:
Thomas, I installed the latest Role Manager on 2.3 and tried to switch on and off the Role of the Contributor about Publish Posts. And to my surprise, the Write Post page new-post.php link has disappeared forever for the contributor even after I switched on Publish Post in the Role Manager. I tried Deleting Role Manager and it still does not show up Write Post for the Contributor like it did previously without Role Manager. I am totally frustrated and I want to know how I can revert back to the previous default admin menu for the contributor role. Please please help asap.
am 27.10.2007 um 22:43 Uhr:
Which table(s) do I restore to get back the default Contributor admin menu? Please tell me in exact detail how to solve this problem as I am a novice at mysql etc. Thanks and awaiting your reply.
am 27.10.2007 um 23:19 Uhr:
Fortunately, I had a latest database backup. I restored it and the problem is solved. I suggest that WP users backup their database before installing Role Manager. Thanks.
am 29.10.2007 um 09:44 Uhr:
@Holger:
Ich verstehe die Frage nicht so ganz. Was meinst Du mit “hart kodieren”? Also eine Rolle “hart kodieren”?
Neue Berechtigungen müssen natürlich auch irgendwo im Programmcode ausgewertet werden. Einfach eine Berechtigung anlegen reicht natürlich nicht und ist daher etwas sinnlos. Du musst schon dafür sorgen, dass sie auch irgendwo ausgewertet wird.
Wenn Du z.B. eine Berechtigung “nur ich” anlegst, kannst Du innerhalb Deines Themes Dinge nur für Dich anzeigen lassen.
@hurry:
I was a few days on holiday, sorry.
I tried this and can’t see your problem. I imagine, that you have disabled this on your profiles page too. Did you verified all your capabilities at your profiles page?
am 29.10.2007 um 12:34 Uhr:
Bug in RoleManager2.1.1? Kann Benutzer nicht bearbeiten:
A velid capability name can only have letter, digits and space
Komischerweise bekomme ich diese Fehlermeldung beim Editieren von Benutzerdaten - also bei einer Tätigkeit, die nicht direkt was mit Roles & Capabilities zu tun hat! Ich will Benutzerdaten auf wp-admin/user-edit.php ändern, klicke auf “Benutzer ändern” und lande auf der wp-admin/user-edit.php Seite. Die Seite ist leer, und der Seitenquelltext besteht einzig und allein aus der oben genannten Fehlermeldung.
Der Fehler tritt sowohl bei mir lokal (MacOSX, XAMPP Apache2, Php5.2.1, Wordpress2.3, Role-Manager2.1.1) als auch auf der Production Site (Linux, Php4.4.7, Wordpress2.3, Role-Manager2.1.1) auf.
am 29.10.2007 um 13:23 Uhr:
@Johannes:
Eigentlich ist das hier der falsche Platz für dev-elease-Fehlermeldungen. Besser ist der Bugtracker bei sf.net.
Beim Speichern auch der User-Einstellungen werden die per POST übermittelten Daten (also auch die Capabilities) auf ihre Gültigkeit überprüft. Wenn da ungültige Zeichen drinne sind, kommt es zu dieser Fehlermeldung.
Kannst Du mir mal die Liste mit den Capabilities des Benutzers, bei dem das passiert, zukommen lassen?
am 29.10.2007 um 22:36 Uhr:
Since I renamed some authors’ roles, I can no longer write posts for them using the administrator account. If I edit their post, it replaces their author name with another one. Do you have plans to fix this, so authors with renamed roles show up in the administrator’s “edit post” form’s author drop-down list?
am 30.10.2007 um 11:53 Uhr:
@Ryan:
If so - you should give my Plugin “IWG Extended Author List” a try. Otherwise please give me the informations: WordPress version, old role-name, new role-name and all capabilities of this role.
First please remember: The Role Manager doesn’t change any from the core-functions. This is reason why I can’t fix this.
But your comment looks like a little bit as if you have did more as rename a role, eg. removing the capabilty “publish posts” from this renamed role
am 02.11.2007 um 07:27 Uhr:
Tanks, i try
am 11.11.2007 um 06:44 Uhr:
The options menu doesn’t show up for me. I seem to be lacking the “manage_roles” capability, probably due to having previously used the old RedAlt Role Manager.
How can I easily add this capability back to my role?
am 11.11.2007 um 08:31 Uhr:
@Viper007Bond:
The old one from RedAlt? Which WordPress-Version? The complete options menu doesn’t shown? For the complete options menu the capability “Manage Options” is needed. Role Manager doesn’t change anything on this capability. Did you try the older 2.0.9 version of the Role Manager (Download via sourceforge)?
am 12.11.2007 um 18:42 Uhr:
Hello.
Your Role Manager is great so far.
I have only run into one problem.
I would like for the Editor to be able to ADD and EDIT users, but do not want them to be able to modify the admin.
Right now If I allow an Editor to Edit and Add users then they are able to make themselves Admin and make the Admin an Editor.
How can I stop this, but still allow them access to Add/Edit/Delete an Editor or below?
am 12.11.2007 um 23:12 Uhr:
Hey I got some ideas to improve your plugin, if you would, consider it as a personal favor to me he he
I’ve been trying ways to work around the plugin and just user it for user levels and not so much for the capabilties, blasphemy yes I know but hey a dude has to make bread out of hairballs ya know
Here’s my idea, a way to not interrupt the default WP roles,capabilities etc, what I did was add 5-6 more roles in addition to the default, that way if for any reason I have to disable the plugin all i would have to do is delete the roles created and the default ones should be fine (in theory). It might be a good idea to recommend users to do this.
There’s just one challenge when creating several new roles, the page gets very long since the capabilities are directly under the Role.
If possible for future releases, could you make it so the capabilities are hidden unless clicked on the title say using javascript or something, this would clean up the browsing page nicely and you can deal with one role at a time when wanting to work with capabilities.
Maybe even use a dropdown menu for the roles, hey I had to ask
am 13.11.2007 um 08:22 Uhr:
@Kyle:
I know this problem for a long time. Extra coding a special plugin is needed in the moment, since the core of wordpress say: if you can edit users, you also can change their roles too. A way to say: this roles are allowed roles here, is needed. I’m working on a solution for wpmu to handle this. (but this work has a low priority for me)
If the solution is ready for make it public I will release a plugin for normal WordPRess and µ.
am 13.11.2007 um 15:58 Uhr:
@Thomas - Thank you for the quick reply.
So, do you by chance know of a way to hack the core file users.php to stop this type of behavior?
I don’t mind reworking the change for each new release.
Thanks!
am 15.11.2007 um 14:52 Uhr:
Hi, great plugin, very useful.
I just upgraded to Role Manager version 2.2.0 (WP 2.3.1 wasn’t noticing me about the more recent version, i used 2.0.9 before) and I get a memory exausted php error on “General information about your Roles and Capabilities and this Plugin” page:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 25165824 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 32 bytes) in /myroot/home/wp-includes/capabilities.php on line 192
Of course I could raise the limit, but it sounds weird to me to exceed memory limit of 24MB with just some statistics…
Anyway, Everything seems to work
Thanks,
Alessandro
am 15.11.2007 um 22:33 Uhr:
Using yuor plugins “Role manager” and “Hide Dashboard”, I have the following message, the Dashboard is visible but the tab of Dashboard is hide.
Can you help me ? Thank
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/mhd-01/www.zobeide.it/htdocs/parcoindustriale/wp-admin/admin-header.php:16) in /home/mhd-01/www.zobeide.it/htdocs/parcoindustriale/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 331
am 16.11.2007 um 01:02 Uhr:
Hi,
thank you very much for your efforts to bring role-manager to wordpress-mu. Did this patch suffice? Is 2.2 ready for WordPress-µ?
am 16.11.2007 um 01:07 Uhr:
Alessandro mentioned, that he got problems with memory usage after upgrade. I want also upgrade to 2.2.
Is it secure to delete the plugin, and copy the new one into the word press-mu plugin-mu folder instead of the plugin folder?
Will this kind of different upgrade keep also the database stored roles intact?
am 16.11.2007 um 12:04 Uhr:
hello, after upgrading from 2.0.5 as far as I rememebr to 2.2.0 every time I want to change the capabilities of a certai nuser and click update, I get this error:
A valid capability name can only have letters, digits and spaces
here is the list of my capabilities:
NextGEN Change OptionsNextGEN Change StyleNextGEN Edit AlbumNextGEN Gallery OverviewNextGEN Manage GalleryNextGEN Upload ImagesNextGEN Use TinyMCEAccess On MaintenanceActivate PluginsAudit TrailCreate UsersDelete Others PagesDelete Others PostsDelete PagesDelete PostsDelete Private PagesDelete Private PostsDelete Published PagesDelete Published PostsDelete UsersDownload BackupsEdit FilesEdit Others PagesEdit Others PostsEdit PagesEdit PluginsEdit PostsEdit Private PagesEdit Private PostsEdit Published PagesEdit Published PostsEdit ThemesEdit UsersImportManage BkpwpManage BackupsManage CategoriesManage CformsManage DatabaseManage EmailManage LinksManage OptionsManage PollsManage RatingsManage RolesModerate CommentsPublish PagesPublish PostsReadRead Private PagesRead Private PostsSlimstat OptionSlimstat ViewSwitch ThemesTrack CformsUnfiltered HtmlUpload FilesUse MochaWp PhpmyadminWpadsZensor Moderate
using wp 2.2.3
any ideas?
am 16.11.2007 um 12:31 Uhr:
@Kyle:
Yes as a plugin ( and without changing the core code )
@Alessandro:
You get the “new version notice” only for plugin where are in the repository at wordpress.org. Role Manager isn’t in because I can’t disable the discussion feature at the plugins page at wordpress.org. Such a feature (the discussion for a plugin at wordpress.org) splits the discussion in more as one place and make it harder for the maintainer (plugin author) and the users to follow the conversion and bug reports. Unfortunately the “Plugin Release for …” from Weblog Tools Collection stops to release every day a news
Thank you for the note with the memory limit. I will check this on a local testmachine of mine. Don’t raise the limit - the statistic isn’t so important - but it should works, of course.
@Claudio:
This isn’t a Role Manager problem. And also not a problem from “Hide Dashboard”. Did you change one of your plugins or corefiles with an wrong editor? You get this line if you have an empty line on a file after the closing
?>. You should look in one of your files from the error message you got.@floogy:
. If you browse the Role Managers svn at sourceforge you can find a really first alpha for µ based on 2.2.. But use this with care and not in your production enviroment! This is important. The µ version comes as an autoactivated plugin to store in 
No, the 2.2. isn’t ready for µ. I’m working on a µ-version because I need it on µ too
mu-pluginsand not inplugins. I never saw the memory message from Alessandro on my development machines. But I don’t know in the moment the memory limit of it. I will look later and tell Alessandro and you more about my emory limit and a way to fix the issue.Last note: I’m looking for some µ-Administrators/Hoster to help me a little bit on Role Managers µ Version. If you want do so and help me on µ - you are welcome
am 16.11.2007 um 12:37 Uhr:
@ovidiu:
Cross-Posting
Can I contact you by email to get the list as plain text? Is your email-address stored by your comment the right one?
am 16.11.2007 um 13:29 Uhr:
what exactly do you mean by cross-posting?
and yes you can contact me by this email address.
am 16.11.2007 um 16:36 Uhr:
@Alessandro & floogy:
Alessandro: the error-message is generated by 
)?
My testmachine has a memorylimit of 24 MB too. Hmmm
capabiliy.phpfrom the core. How many users do you have on your blog? Did you get any output from the general-page? Can you sent me a screenshot (My Email is im-web-gefunden without the “-” at Google Mail Service@ovidiu:
Cross-Posting means we wrote at the same time and you submit your comment some minutes before I submit my answer. I was a little bit confused to see a different comment (your new one) after submitting my answer
I will sent you a short debugging-plugin later today to make it easier for you to generate the output.
Why: I believe a different plugin register a capability and this capability has other as the allowed signs. If I/we found this plugin I will contact the other plugin-author to change this. And hope he will do so
am 16.11.2007 um 17:16 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
cross-posting means indeed something different, it’s often not tolerated in the internet community and violates in some cases the nettiquette:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-posting
You meant something different, as you explained in your post.
EDIT: Ooops:
I want to help you with the wordpress-mu developement as a tester. I’m very new to all these stuff, and I’m not a programmer. Nevertheless I use debian based linux since 2002 on a regular basis. I’m more of an illustrator or so called designer.
I don’t got the memory error like alessandro, but I was afraid of it, because I want to upgrade to wpmu 1.3 and rolemanager 2.2.
If I want to upgrade to the current rolemanager-for-wpmu-svn
, can I upgrade the rolemanager plugin in plugin/rolemanager-2.0.9 to plugin-mu/rolemanager-2.2, by simply deleting plugin/rolemanager-2.0.9, and creating plugin-mu/rolemanager-2.2?
am 16.11.2007 um 19:33 Uhr:
you got me completely confused by now.
:-) first I thought you meant the first meaning of cross-posting, meaning I had posted in two different places with the same problem, but I did not. then you explained we posted at the same time, and as you said you were answering I was looking for another one of my posts but I only had one here?
I got you now and am waiting for the debug script you mentioned.
am 16.11.2007 um 20:27 Uhr:
I guess, your post wasn’t there, or you’re altered it, while Thomas posted/wrote his post…
Maybe he wanted to answer also to your post in the earlier post? Hypothesis, though.
am 16.11.2007 um 20:40 Uhr:
@floogy:
Thank you for your help on my stupid “cross-posting”. Now I remember on mailinglist-administration and the term “crossposting”. Sorry.
Your µ question: Yes you can upgrade on this way. Delete the old one and put the new one (from svn) in
mu-plugins. But don’t forget the single toplevel filerole-manager.phpinmu-plugins, because it is important. And: Use it with care and not on a real life µ site!.@ovidiu:
Sorry for the confusion. It was my failure.
I sent you an email with an attached debugging plugin to easier find the wrong name.
am 16.11.2007 um 22:43 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
actually I didn’t know about this term, how it is used in forums and the blogger scene
. As I already mentioned in the quote: The term cross-posting has got other possible meanings than just the definition used in ML’s and in the usenet. So, your definition is also right. I’ll keep that possibility in mind, the next time this term appeared in discussions 
. You’ll never stop to learn.
I’ll test the role-manager svn on a new or copied/upgraded wpmu 1.3 test install on my local host.
am 20.11.2007 um 16:36 Uhr:
I just downloaded this plugin. I love it, but I’m having a couple of problems.
When I try to add a new “role” no matter what I type in it says this
“A valid capability name can only have letters, digits and spaces”
I am only putting in letters. What might be the problem? I’m using the latest WPversion.
Thank you !
am 21.11.2007 um 00:49 Uhr:
@Deirdre:
It’s a problem if you use the Role Manager 2.2.0 and the NextGen Gallery together. I wrote the author of the NextGen Gallery Plugin a email last night to fix this issue together. Now I’m waiting for an answer.
If you don’t use both plugins together, please can you tell what’s happens if you make a copy of an existing role?
am 21.11.2007 um 18:02 Uhr:
Hi and thanks por the great plugin.
I have a question which is similar to the ones posted by Murphs Mom and Susan (above). I read your answer to both, but still could not find a way (another plugin?) to fix this. Can you help some more ?
So, my question is, how can I have the user which has the “edit user”, “create user” and “delete user” capability not be able to touch (or create) users above a certain role level (for instance, only able to edit subscriber or contributor roles?). I understand this may be out of the scope of your plugin, but is there a specific way to get this result, even with another plugin ?
am 21.11.2007 um 19:49 Uhr:
Hi, I was running Role Manager 2.0.9, but just upgraded to 2.2.0. We’re using Wordpress 2.3.1. As soon as I activate 2.2.0, I get an Internal Server Error on the plugins page. Do I need to remove 2.0.9 data before upgrading? Is there a way to do with without editing the database (our blog is hosted & we don’t have direct database access), or is there an upgrade script? Thanks!
am 21.11.2007 um 20:21 Uhr:
@Ricardo:Kyles, too. At the moment no solution for this exists but I’m working on one (look at my answer on Kyles questions).
And
@Jerry:
I never saw such an error and nobody of the other users post a similar failure. Did you used an special plugin installer or something else?
Normally you remove the old plugin sources from your filesystem and put the new one at the same place. No database editing is needed. Also it is easy to fallback to an earlier version: remove the new sources and restore the old sources from the earlier version. You can get the old release (2.0.9) from sourceforge.
Also in case of a fallback no database editing is needed.
Role manager 2.2.0 is developed on 2.3 and 2.3.1.. Did you changed anything else on your system? Can you take a look into your servers log file?
am 25.11.2007 um 22:57 Uhr:
@Thomas
I don’t know why, since installing Role Manager all html code, like and , also in my comments area are getting unfiltered. My default user is “Contributer”, ONLY with six capabilities: Moderate Comments, Publish Posts, Delete Posts, Edit Posts, Edit Published Posts, and Read.
The Unfiltered Html capability is unchecked. Also, i’ve tried to unchecked the Unfiltered Html capability for the Administrator, but it still happened.
Its very odd, ’cause it still happened even the Role Manager plugin has deactivated (i believe it still in the database/cache?), another odd is it happened ONLY in comment area, and NOT in the post area.
You can see the example in my comment area here:
http://aufklarung.org/computer/hardening-wp-prefix-table-changer-role-manager.mspx#comment-167
It’s the output of CommentLuv plugin, what make it really odd is the output of CommentLuv plugin before i installing Role Manager is totally normal, look below:
http://aufklarung.org/computer/hate-hackers-too.mspx#comment-138
So, can you give some explains for this problem?. Thanks you.
Cheers,
K
am 26.11.2007 um 20:22 Uhr:
Could I use Role Manager to make the Wordpress site a users only site? Could I use this plugin to make all blog posts accessible only to people who are logged in?
am 27.11.2007 um 16:37 Uhr:
Hi,
I just installed this plugin on a new wordpress 2.3.1 website and got fatal error when activating this plugin.
What can cause that error?
What can I do to fix this?
What do you need to know in order to fix this as soon as possible?
Thanks in advance.
am 27.11.2007 um 16:49 Uhr:
When clicking “User” in the dashboard of wordpress 2.3.1 it displays “Assign Extra Capabilities” along with updating the profile info and after pressing “Update” I receive this message:
“A velid capability name can only have letter, digits and space”
Valid is spelled incorrectly when output. I didnt change anything on the file or on the extra capabilities to create this message. All I did was select Uses, then Edit and then I selected update cause i didnt want to change any capabilites or features through the role manager
Feel free to email me in response to this bug notification
am 28.11.2007 um 03:12 Uhr:
Hallo,
tolles Plugin. Leider habe ich ein Problem damit! Ich benutze das Plugin Google XML Sitemaps auf meiner Seite. Seit ich Role Manager 2.2 installiert habe wird die Optionsseite von diesem Plugin nicht mehr unter Optionen gelistet und wenn ich versuche manuell darauf zuzugreifen bekomme ich als Antwort, dass meine Berechtigung nicht ausreicht. Ich habe auch schon versucht auf Role Manager 2.0.9 zurueckzugehen, aber das nuetzt nichts. Ich braeuchte da etwas Hilfe!
Danke!!
am 28.11.2007 um 08:20 Uhr:
@Kaka:
Sorry, but I can’t find differences between the output of the comments. Comments are independent from Roles if you are not logged in. The Role Manager doesn’t changes anything on your comment- or menu system directly. If you change a roles capability - maybe this can deny or grant you the access to some parts of your WordPress.
What happens if you deactivate the CommentLuv-Plugin?
@Matt:
I don’t understand your “users only site”? Maybe the comments from Halina can help you.
@Carlos:
This is the second time a user comments such an error. But I need more information. All my questions you can read here. Note: I don’t got an answer from Jerry
@George:
But this comment may help you. At the end of this week I will release a new version to fix this issue for users with the “NextGen Gallery” Plugin.
The “velid” is an typo
@Boris:
Hast Du vorher mit Version 2.0.9 gearbeitet oder war Version 2.2.0 die erste, die Du benutzt hast?
am 28.11.2007 um 08:30 Uhr:
Ich hab vorher 2.0.9 benutzt.
am 28.11.2007 um 16:24 Uhr:
Thomas, I think that one might be a huge help, thank you for the reference.
am 29.11.2007 um 15:22 Uhr:
Well i dont have the issue that your referring to involved with the NextGen Gallery Plugin. It could possibly be another plugin that is giving the issue
am 02.12.2007 um 02:40 Uhr:
I am also experiencing the “Fatal Error” message when attempting to activate this.
PHP Version : 5.0.4
WP Version : 2.3.1
Role Manager Version : 2.2.0
Installed Plug-In : Akismet, MiniMeta Widget
The message is displayed in the message area when you attempt to click activate
the full message is:
“Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”
No third party plug-in was used to attempt to install role manager.
Not sure Carlos and my own error messages are related to Jerry’s, the Fatal Error message is generated by Wordpress .
Any other information that you would like?
am 03.12.2007 um 10:38 Uhr:
@George:
I will contact you by email to get some special information from you. I hope this is okay for you.
@Dave:
Thank you for your information. I will look for this and hope to fix it together with the cap-check for “NextGen Gallery”.
am 03.12.2007 um 17:21 Uhr:
hi there
i just wanted to know how can i grant subscribers the rights to add links?
now if i select “manage links” and login as subscriber, i can also edit and delete links
how can subscribers access only this page:
http://www.addictivenoize.com/wp-admin/link-add.php
?
thanks
am 10.12.2007 um 21:32 Uhr:
Hello,
we are using WP 2.3.1 DE-Edition and the Role Manager 2.2.0. When I edit Users, created before we use the Role Manager, I got the message:
“A valid capability name can only have letters, digits and spaces.”
The Database was changed to utf8 in the last days. If the problem exists before we change the database to utf8, is not known. The “NextGen” Plugin is not installed. We use the Plugins “Calendar” and “myGallery” together with the Role Manager. When I disable the Role Manager Plugin, I can modify my old existing Users.
am 11.12.2007 um 01:21 Uhr:
Wow, wirklich cooles Plugin, Danke!
am 13.12.2007 um 15:47 Uhr:
Hi Thomas.
Although I don’t have installed “NextGen” plugin, I’m experiencing the same problem discussed before. In my case, I think “Organizer” is causing the conflict.
When I try to assign any “Organizer” capabilites to a user I get the message:
“A valid capability name can only have letters, digits and spaces.”
Is there anything I could do in order to help you fix this?
Thanks in advance.
am 14.12.2007 um 02:10 Uhr:
Hi Thomas.
In the meantime I found a solution for my problem in one of the comments left on Organizer’s homepage.
Here’s the link: http://imthi.com/organizer#comment-10893
am 14.12.2007 um 14:18 Uhr:
The problem that ricardom and others have mentioned also arises in combination with Advanced Category Excluder
am 17.12.2007 um 17:48 Uhr:
I am interested in plugin mentioned by Thomas in comment 63. The plugin that prevents an user from editing or removing the post he added after conditions f.e. after the first comment added - where could i find this plugin? Regards.
am 18.12.2007 um 13:13 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
there is an “inference” issue in your plugin, even the last version.
You check the “edit_users” capability to attach the subadmin menus, but then you use the “manage_roles” capability to actually output the content of the admin pages.
This behavior produce an inference issue: if I give ‘edit_user’ cap to a user, but not the ‘manage_roles’ cap, he can infer the presence of a functionality not allowed to him. This is an unwanted behavior from a security viewpoint.
I think you should fix it (by replacing ‘edit_users’ with ‘manage_roles’ in add_submenu_page calls within the admin_menu function of your plugin).
Anyway, many thanks for your effort. Your plugin is very useful.
See you.
am 19.12.2007 um 22:50 Uhr:
WordPress-Version : 2.3.1
WordPress-Db-Version : 6124
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.00 (131584)
PHP-Version : 4.4.4
preg_replace : yes
Igot the same problem:“A valid capability name can only have letters, digits and spaces.”
Capabilities to be included:
NextGEN Change Options
NextGEN Change Style
NextGEN Edit Album
NextGEN Gallery Overview
NextGEN Manage Gallery
NextGEN Upload Images
NextGEN Use TinyMCE
Activate Plugins
Create Users
Delete Others Pages
Delete Others Posts
Delete Pages
Delete Posts
Delete Private Pages
Delete Private Posts
Delete Published Pages
Delete Published Posts
Delete Users
Edit Files
Edit Others Pages
Edit Others Posts
Edit Pages
Edit Plugins
Edit Posts
Edit Private Pages
Edit Private Posts
Edit Published Pages
Edit Published Posts
Edit Themes
Edit Users
Ezstatic Execute
Import
Manage Categories
Manage Cforms
Manage Links
Manage Options
Manage Roles
Moderate Comments
Premium Content
Publish Pages
Publish Posts
Read
Read Private Pages
Read Private Posts
Switch Themes
Track Cforms
Unfiltered Html
Unfiltered Upload
Upload Files
Wiki Edit: abel to created “Wiki Edit” with no slash, dosen’t work
am 20.12.2007 um 19:03 Uhr:
Hi to all, great plugin, but how can i assign capabilities to plugin.
For example Im using AWSOM News plugin (http://www.awsom.org/awsom-easier-news/).
I want to make Editor role to have rights to use this plugin. I saw that for some plugins i have an options like: Organizer, Democracy, Manage Polls…
am 21.12.2007 um 10:31 Uhr:
@ALL
:
Many, many thank your for your comments. They are very helpfully. It seems that to many other plugins using capabilities with spaces. Today I released the version 2.2.1. of Role Manager. This version should help you to manage this situation better, because now you have a configuration option to permit spaces in capability names. Please read also my todays post about the new version and the spaces problem.
I hope this new version will help you.
Now some notes for special notes. All other should be answered with Role Managers new version. I hope so
@Mystica:
You need an special plugin for this, but I don’t know such a plugin.
@lukas:
I don’t released the plugin because nobody ask for it. It was a quick and dirty hack and I’m afraid it is removed from my hard disk
@Nemo:
It seems what you are using a developer release of Role Manager. 2.2.0 using a function called
user_has_permissionsto check if the user has the caps “edit_users” and “manage_roles”. Only if the user has this caps together the menu will be displayed. 2.2.1 the same. Try it@Linda Petersen:
In no way. You need some changes in the code of the plugins.
am 21.12.2007 um 11:56 Uhr:
Ok, but how can i recognize witch plugins are compatible with Role Manager? Do you have a list with them?
If I need to insert some simple code into plugins code witch is it?
Thanks aganin.
am 21.12.2007 um 17:03 Uhr:
@Linda Petersen:
No, I don’t have a list. Some information about the code you can find at my developer information-page in the section “For other Plugin-Authors”.
am 22.12.2007 um 04:48 Uhr:
Hi Thomas thank you for your terrific plugin.
I am looking for a way so that a Role’s posts will always fall under a particular category.
I tried your plugin and the closest I can get is making a new Role with specific Capabilities (this is great!), but apparently i cannot limit the categories the Role can choose.
I have been looking at capabilities.php. Is the answer there? Or can I edit the Role’s post-new.php to exclude all categories except one?
I hope you can point me in the right direction. vielen Dank! (hope I said thanks correctly
am 22.12.2007 um 11:41 Uhr:
@gabriel:
You should look for a plugin like “access by category“. I hope, that “access by cats” will help you.
Yes, you said “vielen Dank” correctly
am 23.12.2007 um 06:59 Uhr:
thanks Thomas!
I’ve installed the plugin you mentioned however I’ve encountered 2.3.1 version issues, specifically it results in ‘wp_categories doesn’t exist’ errors when I try to access the admin pages.
I tried making a fix but it has resulted in further issues. I’ve left a comment and now I’m waiting for a reply.
If you or anyone else knows of any other similar plugin I’d be very interested to learn of it. Thank you!
am 25.12.2007 um 12:39 Uhr:
Very nice plugin
I have WP 2.3.0 and rolemanager 2.2.1, but I still having a problem
I want a user to be able to write and edit own posts, but when I set the edit_post enable(I havn´t found any way to do it otherwise), they are also able to see comments, and the IP´s in the comments view, and I dont want them to be able to see that. Do know how I can prevent that ?
am 02.01.2008 um 15:37 Uhr:
I’m not clear on the logic of dis-allowing underscores as part of the Role name. We use them to add clarity. Even if we accept a need to not use underscores, now that we have them in our Role names, Role Manager won’t let us rename to anything else.
am 05.01.2008 um 11:24 Uhr:
Hello my friend
Thanks for your good site and very usable plugins.but i have one problem with your “role manager” plugin.
How can create the user in site( wp site ),just can write a new post and edited theme,and can’t see the comment page or any more page.
Very Thanks
Bye
am 06.01.2008 um 04:16 Uhr:
Hi,
I’m using this plugin on WPMU 1.3 and I don’t see any rule applied on a user that is set to specific role.
When I make a new role, set everything on disabled and attach this rule to the user… the user can do still everything.
No errors in the php-errorlog.
Any idea ?
am 06.01.2008 um 23:08 Uhr:
Great plugin. Bravo, Thomas. I wrote a post about role manager and co-author.
am 08.01.2008 um 13:07 Uhr:
Hi folks,
I’m back again now
@Gabriel:
No, I only know this plugin. Maybe I code a new one - many people looking for a solution.
@Gitte:
This is an old core-problem of WordPress. You can read some notes and find a link to a trac-issue above in the comments on this page.
@Jonathan Eunice:
) and some more, alos from the core of WordPress. Role Manager do also some other thinks to improve the clarity: spaces at start/end of a role name removing, double spaces between words in role names are replaced with a single space and so on. But I recognise the problem if you want rename a role. A quick and dirty solution is to using the obsolete role manager 2.0.9 (from sourceforge) to rename the roles.
They are many reasons for dis-allowing underscores - security, clarify (I see a smile on your face now
@Habib:
Some parts you can hide if you remove the needed capabilities from the user and for other parts you need plugins such as my IWG Hide Dashboard.
@Mattz:
This isn’t a µ-version. You can find a developer version of the role manager at role managers svn repository at sf. But you should familiar with svn and so on. And: Don’t use it on any of your µ’s with customer. I will don’t help you if something goes wrong! This is important for you!
am 12.01.2008 um 17:46 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
It sounds like you have a great plugin here. My question is this:
I need to be able to allow an author access to one page (possibly more) and nothing else, no posts or anyting. When the autor logs in i want them to be able to edit their page andtha’s it.
Would your plugin accomplish this for me? Or do you know of one that would? Many thanks in advance for your help/advice.
I’m using WP 2.3.1
am 16.01.2008 um 18:36 Uhr:
I do not want editors to edit or manage comments. But the tab Comments just go away if I turn off Edit Posts. I know you will fix it on the next version, but how can I fix this quickly?
Thank you.
am 22.01.2008 um 13:53 Uhr:
Hello Thomas,
I have found a little mistake in the Wordpress plugin ‘Role-Manager’ Version 2.2.1 file role-manager.php for the translation. there is mentioned (by example: sprintf(__(’Can\’t create the new Role. A Role with the name %s already exists.’,'role-manger’),
I have replaced ‘role-manger with ‘role-manager’. So the tranlation works ok now.
With Regards,
Anja
am 22.01.2008 um 14:04 Uhr:
This plugin looks great, but where can i find who to make a new capability? I want to make some new roles based on the subscriber role.
I want to add the capacity that subscribers with this new role have permission the look certain posts and pages. I need different roles with different permissions to see the posts. Boss may see all posts, almost boss may see almost all and plus-subscriber can only see a few. Normal subscriber and guests are not allowed to see the posts. All this posts have the same category (e.g. intranet). I want to exclude guests and normal subscribers from this category - so i need a capability to exclude them form category with ID=x. And for the others i like to have a capability to have exclusive rights to see posts with categories with defined ID’s.
I hope you understand what i mean and can help me out with this. SO far i only discoverd how to give a capability a name, but not a ‘function’.
am 24.01.2008 um 18:03 Uhr:
I want to use this plugin to hide one of the admin menu options for podPress. I’m not entirely great at php. Can you help me and let me know how?
Thank you
am 24.01.2008 um 20:02 Uhr:
Great plug in, but seems to have critical bug - when editing a post in “pending review ” status, upon resubmitting for review - the post is actually published!
Checked this with permissions set so publishing isn’t even an option, and the publish button is not available to the user. Initial create post & submit works ok, but subsequent edit makes it published, as if the submit button is functioning as publish button
am 26.01.2008 um 00:09 Uhr:
Hi, sorry for not responding sooner. We figured out our problem. Our hosting provider had PHP set to 8MB of memory and had turned off error display. So, all we saw was a 500 internal error message when enabling the plugin used slightly too much memory. We changed the configuration to 16MB & it works fine now.
Thanks!
Edit: I just saw David’s comment above. We too were having a problem with a previous version of Role Manager where the “Submit for Review” button actually published the post. We haven’t tried it yet with 2.2.1, but it sounds like the problem might still exist?
am 26.01.2008 um 18:25 Uhr:
Is there anyway we can use role manager to control the sidebar options of “contributors”? What I would like to do is hide the options “Draft” and “Private” under the “Post Status” and just have the “submit for Review”.
The other thing I would like to do is hide plugins I have installed from showing on “Contributors” visual toolbar when they “write” a post.
Is there anyway to do this with role manager?
am 29.01.2008 um 15:52 Uhr:
Do you accept donations to thank you for/support this plugin? If so, tell me how.
am 02.02.2008 um 03:04 Uhr:
I want my user to be able to edit a page (not a post) and yet have it return to DRAFT status for approval, not just edit and have it published immediately. How can I acheive this? The user does NOT have permission to publish pages, and I don’t want them to. I want all pages to be approved by admin. Looks like this has been requested/reported before, but I don’t see a solution. Thanks in advance.
am 02.02.2008 um 15:27 Uhr:
Hallo,
habe leider Probleme mit dem Plugin. Wenn ich z.B. eine Gruppe kopieren will oder die Rechte eines Users unter Benutzer ändern will, z.B. wenn ich verhindern will das gleich der Artikel veröffentlicht wird, kommt beim entfernen des Hakens und bestätigen folgende Fehlermeldung:
A valid capability name can only have letters, digits and spaces. Try Role Managers “Spaces allowed in Capabilities” option.
am 11.02.2008 um 10:21 Uhr:
Hi,
I’m trying to install the last role plugin 2.2.1 with WP 2.3.3 and I get a ‘Fatal Error’
Some idea or advice?
Thanks.
am 11.02.2008 um 12:49 Uhr:
Ok. We have solved it.
require_once(’role-management.php’);
Changed to:
require_once($_SERVER[’DOCUMENT_ROOT’] . ‘/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/’ . ‘role-management.php’);
Any solution more intelligent or elegant?.
Thanks.
am 13.02.2008 um 16:44 Uhr:
Nice plugin, but I have found a fault, somewhere, everytime you add a new plugin, some of the old capabilities that were previously DEACTIVATED are REACTIVIATED. Is this normal, or have a configured something wrong. It only seems to do it with the Post Avatar plugin from another developer???
Any ideas
am 13.02.2008 um 18:04 Uhr:
Hallo zusammen!
Wäre sehr dankbar, wenn mir irgendjemand helfen könnte!
Hab mir vor ein paar Tagen den Role Manager von hier heruntergeladen, installiert und aktiviert. Dann, als ich später nochmal zu meiner Plugin-Übersicht wechseln wollte, war auf einmal der Plugin-Reiter im Dashboard verschwunden! Hab den Role Manager danach deinstalliert, hat aber nix gebracht, ich kann meine Plugins immer noch nicht aufrufen
LG, Bekki
am 13.02.2008 um 19:40 Uhr:
I noticed that earlier versions did not use the plugin notification routine in WP 2.3+
Are the newer version going to be used to notify on new versions?
Thanks!
am 16.02.2008 um 08:22 Uhr:
What a nice Plugin, Thx for coding this nice one!
am 18.02.2008 um 19:42 Uhr:
Hallooo? Kann mir denn keiner helfen???
am 23.02.2008 um 10:09 Uhr:
Thank you for this Plugin. This will really help me to reduce at least some of my teaching load.:-) This Plugin is working great, however, there is one little issue that I would like to bring to your attention:
I am assigning my students roles that allow them to edit and delete posts (their own posts) - however, they cannot publish posts. To do that, they would have to submit their post for review. (great so far).
If the students decide to save their copy to a draft (for example because they have not yet finished writing their entire post), finish that post lets say later at home, and click the submit for review button, that post will then be published. This means that I will not review the post before it gets published…
Is there a setting that I am missing? Thanks, Sven
am 26.02.2008 um 11:27 Uhr:
Great plugin, thanks! Does this plugin allow people to submit posts (drafs) via email but an admin needs to approve/publish the post?
am 27.02.2008 um 03:29 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
I’m having a problem getting role manager working, have you seen this before?
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/75063
am 27.02.2008 um 06:12 Uhr:
Bei meinem Problem (2.2.08) habe ich leider auch noch keine Lösung gefunden. Auch nicht in Foren, leider. Das Plugin wäre mir sehr nützlich gewesen, da ich mit einigen neuen Autoren “umgehen” muss.
Problem:
Wenn ich z.B. eine Gruppe kopieren will oder die Rechte eines Users unter Benutzer ändern will, z.B. wenn ich verhindern will das gleich der Artikel veröffentlicht wird, kommt beim entfernen des Hakens und bestätigen folgende Fehlermeldung:
A valid capability name can only have letters, digits and spaces. Try Role Managers “Spaces allowed in Capabilities” option.
Schöne Grüße
Holger
am 04.03.2008 um 03:57 Uhr:
Muchas gracias excelente
am 05.03.2008 um 23:24 Uhr:
Fantastic plugin Thomas, thank you very much for this.
Will be featuring this plugin on blog shortly.
Very happy WordPress user
Jamie
am 06.03.2008 um 18:08 Uhr:
Hi, I’ve been looking at Role Manager and Disclose-Secret to try to set up groups of users who can see posts in their own group only. Would you recommend that I create a new role for each group, e.g. groupA_member, and then use Disclose-Secret to restrict access to the posts to users with that role? Is there a better way of doing this? What if a user belongs to more than one group? Any advice you can give would be appreciated. Thanks, Gavin
am 07.03.2008 um 07:41 Uhr:
How do I allow user to edit a published page and then submit it for a review ? I denied the publish page capability and it still publishes the page.
am 16.03.2008 um 23:30 Uhr:
Hallo,
ich habe ein Problem, das vielleicht mit diesem Plugin zusammenhängt.
Ich habe eine Nutzergruppe erstellt, die nur lesen kann, aber auch private posts. Wenn ich aber jetzt einen Post schreiben will, tauchen die alle rechts in so einer Box als “Post Author” auf. Und der erste Name wird automatisch als Autor des Eintrags verwendet. Während ich als admin gar nicht auftauche. Aber außer mir hat keiner die capability einen post zu schreiben!
Ich wäre dankbar für jede Hilfe.
am 17.03.2008 um 04:49 Uhr:
i’ve been using this for awhile and have found it a great compliment with Disclose-Secret. I am curious about accomplishing a nested role system. I would like to create a ‘greater’ role that would allow a user to see the content that i’ve designated to ‘lesser01′ and ‘lesser02′…i want to do this so that i can group roles for a user to allow them to see posts they were not allowed to see before without having to go back and change the ‘user’ or ‘role’ definition in each post.
anyone with any ideas? i’d really appreaciate your insight.
am 18.03.2008 um 14:31 Uhr:
hi,
will this work with wordpress 2.5 ?
am 21.03.2008 um 06:25 Uhr:
Hi,
I see from the description that this plugin only allows a user to belong to one role at a time. I am setting up a Wordpress site that will use a membership software (aMember) to assign a user to a pre defined role.
The way I am setting this up I really need the ability to have a user belong to more than one role. Does anybody know of role manager plugin that will allow this or is this a limitation of the Wordpress core functions?
Thanks in advance for any help on this!
am 24.03.2008 um 06:21 Uhr:
Hi,
Thanks for your work on the plugin first. Awesome. I am not the first time to use this plugin. But when I install this plugin in my newsite, I cannot save any setting(like role, cap…) I am not sure what ’s wrong. Here is my info:
WordPress-Version : 2.3.3
WordPress-Db-Version : 6124
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.01 (131585)
PHP-Version : 5.2.5
preg_replace : yes
am 25.03.2008 um 21:41 Uhr:
Hi Thmoas - excellent plugin but I am having some problems.
I have the following settings:
WordPress-Version : 2.3.3
WordPress-Db-Version : 6124
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.01 (131585)
PHP-Version : 4.4.8
preg_replace : yes
Help-URI : http://www.gfiapac.com/wordpress/wp-admin/users.php?page=role-manager/help.php
I am using the following plug-ins
BM Custom Login 1.0
Disclose Secret 2.4
Exec PHP 4.5
Front Page Login 1.1.1
IWG Hide Dashboard 1.0.2
Login Stayput 1.0
NextGEN Gallery 0.91
NextGEN Gallery Widget 1.21
Role Manager 2.2.1
Wassup 1.4.9
I am getting a ‘Done but with errors on the page’ message on the Roles page (http://www.gfiapac.com/wordpress/wp-admin/users.php?page=role-manager/role-management.php)
The errors are:
Line: 469
Char: 75
Expected: ‘)’
URL: http://www.gfiapac.com/wordpress/wp-admin/users.php?page=role-manager/role-management.php
The error repeats on the following Line/Char combinations
670/68
871/68
1072/73
1273/72
1474/67
1675/71
1876/71
Any ideas where my problem lies? I am not a PHP expert (far from it) so any guidance would be extremely helpful.
Many thanks
Leon
am 27.03.2008 um 14:40 Uhr:
When a contributor tries to post by pressing the button “submit for review”, the post seems to go nowhere. As Admin I can’t see it in order to moderate it! Please help
am 28.03.2008 um 10:30 Uhr:
wordpress 2.5 seems to fix the problems I was having in wordpress 2.3
am 02.04.2008 um 00:15 Uhr:
Hello.
Any chance to update your plugin to work for wordpress 2.5??
Silla!
am 02.04.2008 um 18:32 Uhr:
hi thomas,
great plugin. Thanks! But I have one problem. I set the status of one page to private and enabled the user via the role manager to see a private page. But it doesn’t word.
Can anyone help me?
am 03.04.2008 um 18:53 Uhr:
@Scyfox:
The Role Manager should works with 2.5. Maybe you have some layout issues - I will fix this soon. Or do you have other problems?
am 04.04.2008 um 13:46 Uhr:
Hallo,
ich habe das plugin in WP 2.5 installiert. Zuerst dachte ich es funktioniert einwandfrei, aber dann kam es anders. Wenn man einen User oder eine neue Rolle abspeichern will stößt man oft auf die Fehlermeldung:
“A valid capability name can only have letters, digits and spaces. Try Role Managers “Spaces allowed in Capabilities” option.”
Dabei trifft diese Meldung auf die aktuelle situation garnicht zu.
Das anhaken/abhaken der NextGenGallery bei den Rollen funktioniert auch nicht.
gruß
am 04.04.2008 um 19:23 Uhr:
Hello, I’m using WP 2.5 and would like to be able to use Role Manager again. I made the change in code in comment #334 and still get fatal errors, without reference to files or lines of code. Is there an available fix for this? Thanks, Mark
am 04.04.2008 um 20:11 Uhr:
Thats not for 2.5. And I never saw the error from #334 on all my blogs. I will make some more tests on 2.5 and if the need a new version of the Role Manager it well be released on Wednesday next week.
am 05.04.2008 um 05:26 Uhr:
Thomas, That would be great
My WP 2.5 install is on PHP 4.4.0, if that might be the cause of the fatal error. Send me a version of Role Manager if you’d like me to test it before release. Thanks, Mark
am 09.04.2008 um 03:08 Uhr:
Excellent Plug-in Thomas,
I’ve run into one possible bug. I’ve set the Editors role to not be able to add/delete users of any kind. Only Administrators have this capability. The delete users restriction works great, but Editors are still able to add users. Any idea why that might be?
Below is my specific setup info if it helps:
WordPress-Version : 2.3.3
WordPress-Db-Version : 6124
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.01 (131585)
PHP-Version : 4.4.8
preg_replace : yes
Thanks again for a great plugin!
am 09.04.2008 um 17:37 Uhr:
Hi, I may have found a bug in the plugin with wp 2.5. I have a users group which is allowed to:
- Edit Published Pages
- Read
- Upload Files
- Edit pages
With wp 2.3.3 and earlier I used this to have a group of people that were able to only edit their own pages. So as the admin I would create a page, say /users/thomas/ and then I’d give thomas his login and he would be able to edit that page, but not other pages.
However, since upgrading to wp2.5 a strange thing happens: whenever a user logs in and goes to his page and Saves it, the page is immediately set to “private” (the checkbox keep this page private is checked). Even when a user unchecks that and tries saving it again, the check is back.
Only when I log in as the admin, I can unset the private page. I think it has something to do with how Wordpress 2.5 changed the roles and publish flow.
Any ideas?
Thanks for the great plugin by the way. Have you ever had contact with the wordpress guys to get this integrated by default?
am 09.04.2008 um 18:53 Uhr:
I upgraded to Wp 2.5 today and seem to have lost the role capability when creating posts or pages. Is the functionality different?
am 09.04.2008 um 19:09 Uhr:
hello,
I am running WP2.3.3, and have encountered a bug (or problem).
I have changed the “subscriber” role to not allow access to anything. (This way, users must by physically approved by me to “contributor” level).
So, when I have a new user, they see the WP screen that says “you on’t have access to this”. But if they just reload the page, they can surf/browse anything they like.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
—-
text translated from English to German with Google Translate:
Hallo,
Ich arbeite mit WP2.3.3, und haben einen Fehler (oder ein Problem).
Ich habe nun die “Teilnehmer” Rolle nicht zulassen, dass der Zugang zu etwas. (Auf diese Weise müssen die Benutzer von physisch, die von mir zu “Beitrag”).
Also, wenn ich einen neuen Nutzer, sie sehen die WP-Bildschirm, die besagt, dass “on’t Sie haben Zugang zu diesem”. Aber wenn sie sich einfach die Seite neu laden, können sie surfen / stöbern, was sie wollen.
Irgendwelche Ideen?
Vielen Dank.
am 09.04.2008 um 19:09 Uhr:
Hi Thomas! I have a little problem… I locked myself out of my blog by attempting to create a new role above the others. now, it won’t let me into the admin area though i did it by cloning the admin with everything checked. I took away some of the admin priorities, which was a bad idea, so I can’t undo what I did that way. Anyway around this?
am 10.04.2008 um 22:09 Uhr:
Hello, Just tried the new release 2.2.2 and still get fatal errors, referencing line 20 in role-manager.php. Tried the code change in comment #334, too. Is this maybe because I’m on a server with PHP 4? (WP 2.5) Thanks, Mark
am 10.04.2008 um 22:18 Uhr:
Hallo, ich habe folgendes Problem: Nach dem Aktivieren des PlugIns konnte ich den Blog lediglich noch betrachten, aber nicht mehr auf die Admin-Ebene zugreifen. Immer nur: “Du hast nicht ausreichend Rechte, um auf diese Seite zuzugreifen.”
Ich habe das PlugIn dann runtergeschmissen: keine Änderung.
Ich habe dann im in den Kommentaren den Tipp gefunden, in der Datenbank folgendes zu ändern:
“Also mußt Du nach dem Eintrag meta_key=wp_capabilities für
die user_id 1 suchen. Da steht bei Dir im Moment wahrscheinlich
folgendes als meta_value drin:
a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}
Das mußt Du ersetzen durch:
a:2:{s:10:”edit_users”;b:1;s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}”
Ergebnis: nix.
Habe dann das PlugIn wieder aufgespielt. Die Folge: “WARNING: Unexpected character in input: ‘in /role-management.php on line 392″
HILFE! Welche Möglichkeit bleibt mir noch?
Meine WP-Version ist 2.5
Vielen Dank! Elm
am 10.04.2008 um 23:03 Uhr:
@songdotech:
Did you really created an extra directory for the role manager? Did you set the permissions right for all files and subdirectories? This isn’t a problem of PHP 4.
@David Paul Ellenwood:
This is a bug in the wordpress core. The new admin interface from 2.5 of WordPress isn’t so good and has many bugs. I’ve created today a new trac ticket for this issue. A solution is also included. You can find my ticket on trac.
@Matthijs:
This is also a bug of WordPress “brand” new core. I hope the core developer will help you if you create a ticket for your failure.
@Chelle:
Sorry, I don’t understand your problem.
@mitchellirons:
Never seen this. But what was the reason for this settings? Maybe, we can find a other way for your situation.
@Greg:
Do you have an database backup? The most important is one row in wp_options, called “wp_user_roles”.
@Elm:
Das Plugin macht nichts von alleine. Da hilft es auch nicht, so zu tun, als wenn man nichts gemacht hat
Nimm mal Deine händischen Änderungen zurück und spiel# einfach von Deinem DB-Backup die Zeile wp_user_roles wieder in die wp_options zurück. Dann geht auch alles wieder …
am 11.04.2008 um 10:40 Uhr:
Thanks for your reply Thomas. I will check out Trac and see if I can post the bug.
am 11.04.2008 um 10:58 Uhr:
By the way, what makes you so sure that it is a bug in the core? I cannot reproduce the bug without using the Role manager plugin, so for me it’s hard to explain why it would be a problem in the core of wordpress. You can be right, but since I’m not familiar with the code of the plugin or the core of wordpress I would not know. Care to elaborate?
I can see if I can find something in the code myself, but that’ll take some time, obviously.
am 11.04.2008 um 18:14 Uhr:
Can I request like some others have that you add Role Manager to the WP Plugin Repository so that updates show up in WP and can be automatically updated?
am 11.04.2008 um 18:48 Uhr:
Hi - I’m having trouble resetting “editor” capabilities. I want my editors to be able to edit others’ pages as well as all posts, and though I set their permissions to be able to do that, they’re still not allowed to edit each others’ pages. They can edit each others’ posts.
I reset the editor capabilities list, surfed away from the edit capabilities page and back, and little green check boxes appear in the right places, so I think I did that correctly. I’m not sure what else to do. Here’s my system info:
WordPress-Version : 2.5
WordPress-Db-Version : 7558
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.01 (131585)
PHP-Version : 4.4.8
preg_replace : yes
Is there any fix for this or am I just doing something wrong? Thanks for your help.
Michelle
am 11.04.2008 um 21:24 Uhr:
@songdotech: Did you really created an extra directory for the role manager? Did you set the permissions right for all files and subdirectories? This isn’t a problem of PHP 4.
I set the new folder “role-manager” to 755 and the files to 644 or a bit higher, and still get the error that role-manager.php can’t locate role-management.php. Don’t know what else to try. I set the permissions of role-mananger.php to 755 to test and it crashed all of WP.
Curious…..
am 12.04.2008 um 13:39 Uhr:
Hallo Thomas. Nochmal meine Frage: Ich habe mittels des Role Managers einem User die Rechte “Read Private Pages” und “Read Private Posts” gegeben. Ich habe dann eine Seite (z.B. die Seite “/?page_id=2″) auf den Status “als Privat markieren” gesetzt. Allerdings kann der User mit den oben angesprochenen Rechten die Seite dennnoch nicht sehen. Woran liegt das?
am 14.04.2008 um 08:28 Uhr:
@jp:
Ich habe das mit WordPress 2.5 ausprobiert. Bei mir funktioniert es ohne Probleme. Kannst Du mal bitte alle Berechtigungen des Users und Deine WordPRess-Version hier posten. Falls Du das nicht willst, schick’ sie mir per Email.
am 14.04.2008 um 21:00 Uhr:
Hallo Thomas!
Ich hab gelesen, das du mal vorhast das Plugin für WPMU anzupassen. Bist du schon dazu gekommen? Frage, weil ich gerade anfange mit mit WPMU zu beschäftigen und da hätte ich auch gern dein Plugin mit dabei
Danke und viele Grüsse!
M
am 14.04.2008 um 22:09 Uhr:
I get a fatal error when trying to activate on my 2.5 installation as well. It doesn’t tell me anything more than that.
am 15.04.2008 um 03:00 Uhr:
hi, thanks for plugin. i am on wp 2.5. i have a new role with ‘publish posts’ and ‘read’ enabled. however when these users login there is no link for them to write new posts. is this something to do with the plugin? I want these users to be able to write posts, but not edit them. thanks.
am 16.04.2008 um 07:03 Uhr:
Those fatal errors in WP 2.5 must have had something to do with PHP 4, as I just upgraded my server to PHP 5 and Role Manager works fine now. Either the issue was PHP4 or some configuration of that version of PHP, or a configuration of PHP5 - Songdogtech
am 16.04.2008 um 21:52 Uhr:
Hi Thomas, if possible, could you look at my questions? How are you so sure that the bug I mention is not caused by the plugin? I cannot replicate the bug without the plugin, so it’s difficult to put a ticket for that on the trac. Or could you point me in the direction where I could look in the code of the plugin to try and find a solution? Thanks.
am 17.04.2008 um 08:40 Uhr:
Thomas, thank you for a terrific plugin!
After we have upgraded to Wordpress 2.5, Authors that had “Edit Published Pages” capabilities assigned to them could no longer Edit these pages without approval from either an Editor or the Administrator. We did find that IF we allowed Authors to Publish both Pages and Posts that they could then edit their own pages.
Is there a Page Status Capability that we can set up to allow Authors to edit their own pages?
Thank you.
Cynthia
am 17.04.2008 um 10:17 Uhr:
Hallo Thomas - Ich hab Dein Plugin installiert und es läuft soweit eigentlich alles bestens. Doch was bedeutet eigentlich die ability, “premium content” zulassen zu können?
am 19.04.2008 um 10:38 Uhr:
@Matthijs:
Roles are containers for granted capabilities. With the Role Manager you can only create or modify combinations of granted capabilities for a role. The core or an other plugin makes checks against capabilities for the current user in different situations, eg. publishing a modified page. If you or the developer modifying the core of WordPress your original combination of granted capabilities maybe don’t works no longer. The admin interface of WordPress 2.5 is heavy changed and some bugs are in it. Whats happened in 2.5? Let’s go to look here. The red lines are the removed code from 2.3.3 and the green lines are new in 2.5. White lines are unchanged. If you look for red line number 67 you can see the check against “publish_pages”. The new code - green line 75 - makes a wrong check, because this is a check for “publish_posts”. This is the reason, why I’m so sure the failure is in the core and not in the Role Manager.
By the way Matthijs, to open a trac ticket you don’t need to know the sources. A good description of the problem will be are a help for the developer.
am 19.04.2008 um 15:15 Uhr:
Hi Thomas, thanks for the explanation. That makes it a bit more clear. I couldn’t place a ticket yet because I didn’t even know if it was the plugin or the wp code itself. I’ll take your description and add it to a trac ticket. Hopefully it can be solved in 2.5.1. Thanks again for the help.
am 20.04.2008 um 22:20 Uhr:
Ok, I added a ticket to the wordpress trac yesterday. But looking today I saw that it has disappeared. Can they delete trac tickets? And why? I clearly described the problem, even referenced the file, etc.
am 21.04.2008 um 17:26 Uhr:
In some cases you only want users to ‘Edit Posts’, some cases only ‘Edit Pages’.
I’ve found a problem that uploaded files (attachments) cannot be deleted unnless the user has ‘Edit Posts’ permissions.
This is an issue if the user only have ‘Edit Pages’ permissions, as they can not delete the uploaded files.
This is on 2.3. How can I correct this?
Thanks.
am 21.04.2008 um 20:19 Uhr:
@thomas: hatte dir ne mail geschrieben. Bekommen?
am 21.04.2008 um 22:24 Uhr:
@songdogtech:
Thanks for your info. I will do some more tests on PHP 4.
@Cynthia:
This is the same problem as reported by Matthijs.
@Matthijs:
The ticket is closed and Ryan has patched this for 2.5.1 and the trunk. You can see it here and here. But I made some more tests and this changes will not fix the problem right. Tomorrow I will reopen or create a new ticket with some more patches to fix the problem completely.
@David Paul Ellenwood:
My patch is included in 2.5.1 and the trunk. It will be fixed with 2.5.1.
@Adam M:
Please open a trac ticket on wordpress.org because this is a failure in the core sources of wordpress.
@jp:
Du solltest ‘ne hinreichende Mail bekommen haben
am 23.04.2008 um 11:12 Uhr:
Hello, and thank you for a fantastic plugin! I’m sorry I can’t post in German, but I’m sure your English is far better than my German anyway!
I’m having a problem with private posts and pages. I have created two user groups. One I want to be able to read private pages and posts and the other I want to be able to read private pages only. I have the corresponding marks ticked in their user capabilities, but the private pages and/or posts still don’t show up when I log in as one of those user types.
Both user groups are running at user_level 2. Is this to do with Role Manager? I feel like I’m just missing something. Or is it to do with WordPress?
I’m running RoleManager 2.2.2 on WordPress 2.5.
Thanks very much,
Leslie
am 23.04.2008 um 13:56 Uhr:
Hello,
Is it possible to make a role where one can only post in specific categories?
am 24.04.2008 um 01:19 Uhr:
Hi,
I am using Role manager with Nextgen gallery and would like to know how I can specifically set up role manager to allow a user only to have access to an assigned gallery.
I added a ‘capability’ but from what I can see I cannot define what that capability is. Please help me if you have a minute.
Thanks,
Mike
am 26.04.2008 um 03:26 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
I commented a while back with a problem I have where users cannot edit other people’s published pages, though their permissions are set so that they should be able to.
I noticed several other issues were with the WP 2.5 code, so I upgraded to 2.5.1 tonight - but I’m still having the problem.
Is there anything I can do about this? Thank you!
Michelle
am 26.04.2008 um 09:12 Uhr:
@Leslie:
Can you access the pages if you typing the urls of them in the browsers address-bar after you logged in as such a user?
@karin:
You need an other plugin for this, called access by cats.
@mike:
This is a question for the NextGen-Plugin-Author, sorry.
@Michelle:
This isn’t a Role Manager problem. To figure out where the problem is in the core of WordPress I will send you an email. We should work on an patch for the core together
@Cynthia and Matthijs:
WordPress 2.5.1 came out too fast for my patch. If you are interested, I can send you two changed core files for 2.5.1 for testing. Please give me a note here.
am 29.04.2008 um 12:08 Uhr:
Hello Thomas,
First, thanks a lot & congratulations for this plugin, which should indeed be integrated into WP core !
However, I have a problem : I work on a site (not published yet) with WP2.5.1. I want Authors to be able to read private posts and private pages, and Editors to be able to edit private posts and private pages. I created a few pages and posts (some are private, some are public). The plugin seems to work like a charm with posts, but private pages don’t show in the menu, even when logged as Admin/Editor/Author… If I manually set the URL as an Admin/Editor/Author, I can access the private pages, and edit them (except as an Author -> this is ok).
Any idea ?
Best regards,
Yann
am 29.04.2008 um 13:53 Uhr:
@Yann:
I don’t hope so. Because many good old plugins are even better as the core implementations of the same features. But this is an other discussion
By the way, at the last time I received many questions also by email, with your question. My answer is: This isn’t a Role Manager problem. Let me explain this a bit more:
Your theme calls the function
wp_list_pagesto list all your pages. All pages? No, not all. Private pages for example are not listed in any case. Why?wp_list_pagescallsget_pagesto retrieve the pages from the database. The query used byget_pageslooks only for published pages:WHERE (post_type = 'page' AND status = 'publish'). A private page has the valueprivatefor status and notpublish.This is the reason, why your private pages are not listed. The Role Manager isn’t involved here.
If you want go deeper in detail, you can find the function
wp_list_pagesinpost-template.phpat line 311 andget_pagesinpost.phpat line 1875. The query-part is in line 1957. Both files are inwp-includes. An online version of the 2.5.1-versions with numbered lines are here.am 29.04.2008 um 16:14 Uhr:
Ok… But… Am I the first to meet this problem ? Basically, I’d think that if I create a page with an account XXX, I could at least see this page when logged as XXX… And I thought your plugin would allow me to allow other users (with a given role level) to see my private pages as well. As (as far as I know) all wp themes do use wp_list_pages() to generate their main menu, do you mean that using the private pages (independently from the Role Manager plugin) always means modifying the theme in order to make private pages appear, even for people who own the rights to do so ? If so, do you have some clues about the way to solve this issue ?
Thanks !
Yann
am 29.04.2008 um 16:30 Uhr:
^^ … just thinking about it : maybe I should not use the “private” criterion, but create a custom capability (something like “see Member-only pages” and set a “Member-only”=true/false” Custom Field on pages I want to hide ?
am 30.04.2008 um 00:15 Uhr:
@Yann:
Yes, that’s right. If you want use this feature you should modify your theme. Or use an extra plugin. Or code your own plugin. This is what I mean with my: Good old plugins implements feature better as the core doing the job.
You can make a
grep read_private_pagesacross the complete sources of WordPress - and you will find only some places for this capability. You can read also my earlier comment about implementations, checks and issues.The best way is creating a patch for both functions with an option to list also private pages if the user has the right capability and finally to open a trac ticket with this patch.
In the moment the solution from your last comment is a good workaround.
am 30.04.2008 um 13:28 Uhr:
hi,
i have installed your plugin and it appears fine and allows me to click on individual roles and they go red/green.
i do not want our contributors to see the pending drafts from other users. I have turned this off using your plugin but it still shows the pending drafts on the dashboard.
you help please
regards
chris
WordPress-Version : 2.5.1
WordPress-Db-Version : 7796
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.02 (131586)
PHP-Version : 5.2.5
preg_replace : yes
am 01.05.2008 um 14:00 Uhr:
Dear Thomas. I have been visiting your page for a year now just to see what will happen with WPMU version of your plugin. But it seems that WPMU version will never see daylight. I think that it is a shame cause this plugin (which I really like) would have much more sense as a part of WPMU. I will contact you via e-mail because I have a few questions that I would like to ask you. Anyway, good luck with the further development of your plugin.
Cheers
am 04.05.2008 um 03:17 Uhr:
Ok, I’ve noticed that when Users with roles less than an Administrator (and if allowed to Create/Edit/Delete users defined in Role Manager) are able to:
- list all users (which is a bit insecure, as I would expect them to be able only to list users in levels up to their level, not above, like admins)
- edit/delete all users (which is even more insecure, as this way they can simply “upgrade” any of the existing users to admins with no problem)
- add new users with any roles assigned to them, even administrator role.
Could that be fixed, so that users in group with a level of 7 can’t see any of the other groups above level 7, and can’t create new/edit existing users and assign them any role higher than 7, for example?
Otherwise, this is a major security risk for anyone allowing any users in groups less than administrator to administer other users.
am 04.05.2008 um 14:52 Uhr:
@Zets:
I received your email and will answering in a few days, because I’m very busy in the moment.
@Jason:
Since WordPress 2.0 introduced Roles and Capabilities a ordering by levels doesn’t no longer exists. You can use levels but I hope no plugin or something else reacts on this levels.
By the way, your problem is an “old” problem of the WordPress core implementation. You can find also on this page here some comments about this. But: This isn’t a Role Manager Problem.
You can find many posts on the trac about your problem, e.g. this and this. The best for reading is this one with some more details.
am 05.05.2008 um 00:09 Uhr:
OK Thomas, thanks for your reply. I’ll be waiting.
am 06.05.2008 um 00:04 Uhr:
I am trying to use role manager with “Fresh-post” plugin. When I uncheck “publish- post” on the role manager — it hides the entire custom write panel submenu. I need users to be able to write and edit posts through custom write panel– but submit it for approval . Problem is when I have “publish-post” option on ” users” can themself publish post — which I don’t want and when I uncheck “publish-post” all my submenu ( except WP default) disappear.
Any Help ??
am 06.05.2008 um 13:15 Uhr:
Hi! I am realizing the website for a online magazine and i have a big issue i hope i can solve with your plugin, although i am not sure how.
)
The articles of the website are written by many people (20/30 and increasing) which we don’t want to have access to publish/edit functions in wordpress. What happens is that the writers send us the new articles by email, the owner of the magazine reads them/ modifies them and then publish them. BUT we want the writers to have wordpress profiles (ev. with biography etc) that can be called and shown with php in the post page and that they can use as well when they write comments.
How can i make a role which is like a subscriber, but that the administrator, when writing a post, can select as author in the wordpress tab?
(Hope i was clear enough
Drey
am 07.05.2008 um 01:12 Uhr:
Is there a way to allow a user to view other users but not change other user roles
am 07.05.2008 um 10:45 Uhr:
Hey Thomas, just believe me I was thinks that why wordpress made option for different level of users like Administrator, Editor, subscriber, author whereas there is no way to make it applicable, they are just as a display item………but from 1 website I came to know that you made a plugin which really helps us to make our dream world of roles. Thanks for this greast work.
Keep it up so that we keep on getting along with new versions also
:)
am 07.05.2008 um 11:41 Uhr:
Hi Thomas. This plugin has been very useful. However I have two small questions:
1. When I allow an author to moderate comments it doesn’t seem to be working, could this be a mac issue? or am I doing something wrong?
2. How can I allow an user to edit other people’s posts, but only if their role is inferior. For example I want authors to be able to edit contributor’s posts but not the admin’s posts. Is that possible?
Thanks for your help!
am 11.05.2008 um 11:47 Uhr:
hi Thomas,
could you help me?
I have assigned somebody the role of ‘editor’. But the person is unable to edit posts and pages published by admin. I am sure that I have given the necessary permissions to do so. Am i missing something. I would appreciate an early response.
Warm Regards and a good plugin
Katya
am 14.05.2008 um 01:11 Uhr:
Hi, I have been using the plugin for a while and had deleted some of the default roles, but I now need them back. How can I remove the plugin and restore all the default roles. disabling the plugin doesn’t restore the default roles. I will then reinstall the plugin and start again.
WordPress-Version : 2.5.1
WordPress-Db-Version : 7796
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.02 (131586)
PHP-Version : 4.4.2-1build1
preg_replace : yes
am 16.05.2008 um 22:27 Uhr:
Looking to have a role that only allows for the moderation of comments. The role would be defined as “moderator”. Problem is, to allow the moderation of comments you must give that user the ability to edit posts (NOT what I want). What might the solution for this problem be? Any ideas?
am 27.05.2008 um 00:20 Uhr:
Hello..
Awesome plugin.. How would I add a capability to Manage Pages.. I cannot get this without granting them access to Edit Pages, but then they have the ability to add pages to the site which I cannot have for it will alter the structure of the site.. I just want them to be able to edit the published pages that exist using the Manage link.. I tried adding a capability, but got nowhere with it because I could no figure out how to add limits to those capabilities..
Any ideas would be awesome!!
Thanks again..
am 30.05.2008 um 18:15 Uhr:
Help! This plugin worked great for me when I was on 2.1, but ever since I upgraded to 2.5, I can’t seem to edit the capabilities of users. When I click on any green or red capabilities, they don’t change color or anything. It doesn’t work on IE or FireFox. I think there might be a javascript error somewhere? Is anyone else having this problem?
am 30.05.2008 um 18:36 Uhr:
Using Firebug in FireFox, the problems seems to be a Javascript error:
missing ; before statement
createAJAX()tw-sack.js (line 43)
sack(undefined)tw-sack.js (line 192)
submitme(form#credentialed-lza__Login Redirect.cap_form users.php)users.php (line 79)
onsubmit(submit )
But I can’t seem to figure out what’s causing the error or how to get it fixed, and without it getting fixed, I can’t change any of the roles.
Can someone help?
Rex
am 02.06.2008 um 23:11 Uhr:
Hi, I translated the plugin into Spanish. If your send me your email address, I’ll send you the po and mo files. Have a great day and thanks for the plugin!!!
am 05.06.2008 um 03:23 Uhr:
You mentioned in a response above, #63 you had a plug in that would allow users to “Edit published posts” and if you turn off “Moderate comments” they would be able to edit posts until commented on, but not edit comments. I would be interested in that plug in, could you please make it available? Your assistance would be appreciated.
Regards,
Mark
am 06.06.2008 um 05:37 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
I just got around to upgrading to WP 2.5.1. I had some issues with 2.3.3 regarding roles and capabilities. You can see my previous comment above.
My current question has to do with the ability of a non-Administrator to change their Role to an Administrator. Is there any way to prevent this while still giving them the ability to edit users on the same role-level or lower than their own?
Thanks again for a great plugin!
DaveE
am 10.06.2008 um 00:20 Uhr:
Hi and again thanx a lot for your great job there Thomas : )
Well, because my english is uncertain and this page’s hard to display with almost 420 comments (!), I don’t find a clue to help me on a specific point. The plugin works very fine everywhere else but I’m stuck with an users rights editing option…
Can you please tell me if it’s possible to limit group’s capability to switch other users levels up to his own level only ?
I mean, I’m the only one who have a “SuperAdmin” role for example, so I can manage all options, etc. but I would like that a “SimpleAdmin” role given to few users grants rights to manage less options and to be able to create new users, to manage their roles (”Contributor”, “Visitor”, …) but never be able to give an user a higher level than the “SimpleAdmin” one (always lower or equal than his own role) and by the way can not be able to downgrade mine for a lower one : )
Thank’s in advance for your answer and sorry if my question have been threaten before,
Rumores
am 10.06.2008 um 15:36 Uhr:
Damn ^^
In fact, same question than David Paul Ellenwood’s one above…
I’m gonna wash my glasses right now, I sware !
am 11.06.2008 um 02:46 Uhr:
Hi Thomas. You’ve done great work here, both with the plugin and with the support you’ve provided (423 comments!). I appreciate all the work you’ve done.
I’m a teacher in Canada. We’re experimenting with using WordPress (2.5) to power our classroom blog. The problem is that low level users can see all comments, including unmoderated comments (and the associated email addresses).
Can I try a copy of your plugin that is mentioned in comment 63 / 418?
I’ve installed your “IWG Hide Dashboard” plugin which is great. I wonder if it’s possible to create an IWG Hide Comment plugin which disables the comments link when you log in.
Regardless, thanks for the great plugin. Kisu.
am 13.06.2008 um 10:25 Uhr:
Hallo, Thomas.
Erstaml herzlichen Dank für das tolle Plugin. Ich habe ein kleines Problem:
Unter den Admin-Berechtigungen taucht zweimal die Option “Login Redirect” auf (das brauche ich für ein anderes WP-Plugin): einmal zugelassen, einmal nicht zugelassen. Die nicht zugelassene Berechtigung lässt sich nicht umschalten. Unter Berechtigungen taucht “Login Redirect” als unbenutzte Berechtigung auf, lässt sich aber nicht löschen. Löschen und Neuinstallieren des Role Managers hilft auch nichts.
Was kann ich wohl tun?
am 13.06.2008 um 13:45 Uhr:
Dies hat geholfen:
Rollen/Berechtigungen allgemein: Spaces allowed in Capabilities (Checkbox) If you have trouble with other plugins and Role Managers Capability Check. Save.
am 15.06.2008 um 22:51 Uhr:
I’m trying to delete a user role created by FreshPost or CWP. I create a page using FreshPost, it then appears as a capability in Role Manager, f I delete the page it stays in the role manager capabilities list. Why don’t we have the option to delete a capability, or am I missing something.
Thanks
am 15.06.2008 um 22:51 Uhr:
I’m trying to delete a user capability created by FreshPost or CWP. I create a page using FreshPost, it then appears as a capability in Role Manager, f I delete the page it stays in the role manager capabilities list. Why don’t we have the option to delete a capability, or am I missing something.
Thanks
am 16.06.2008 um 16:22 Uhr:
I’m getting the following error on my blog:
Warning: require_once(/home/content/…/lib/setup.php)
Any idea what I can do to fix this?
Never mind. It was conflicting with some old files from a previous install of a different program–I thought I’d deleted them all. Sorry for cluttering up your blog.
am 18.06.2008 um 16:00 Uhr:
HELP HELP HELP!!
Thomas, someone, can you please answer my question? This plugin is causing significant problems for me since I can’t seem to edit the capabilities!
Here’s my previous comment:
Help! This plugin worked great for me when I was on 2.1, but ever since I upgraded to 2.5, I can’t seem to edit the capabilities of users. When I click on any green or red capabilities, they don’t change color or anything. It doesn’t work on IE or FireFox. I think there might be a javascript error somewhere? Is anyone else having this problem?
Is there anyone else experiencing this problem? How do I solve this issue? Help!
am 21.06.2008 um 12:52 Uhr:
nice plugin! but where can i allow my authors to publish pictures in their posts?
Greetings from Germany
am 21.06.2008 um 17:27 Uhr:
Hello Thomas,
Thanks for this great plug-in. I have somme questions and suggestions.
1. Same as #425 & #1426 (Doc4). I’ve created a Custom Write panel with FreshPost. Then I deleted it. But it’s still in RM capabilities. How to delete it ?
2. Could you add the capabilities to create page, create post instead of only edit. I’d like to let some users modify some posts or pages but not create some.
3. another capability : to let choose which category a user can post in.
4. Just for RM to be simpler to use, could it be possible to better sort capabilities like :
- by action :
- Create : Page, Post, Other page, Other post…
- Edit : Pages, Post, Other page, Other post…
- or by cat :
- Page : create, edit, delete, create other, edit other, delete other…
- Post : create, edit, delete, create other, edit other, delete other…
Thanks again.
am 23.06.2008 um 23:36 Uhr:
Just a little code for hide comment with the capability “hide_comment”
Role Manager Plugin” for this Plugin.
Author: Thomas Schneider / Jean
Version: 1.0.0
License: MIT License - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
*/
function iwg_hide_comment() {
global $menu, $parent_file;
if ( current_user_can(’hide_comment’) ) {
unset($menu[20]);
}
}
add_action(’admin_head’,'iwg_hide_comment’, 0);
?>
am 29.06.2008 um 12:34 Uhr:
Can you set a capability to limit which categories users can check?
am 30.06.2008 um 02:25 Uhr:
I am looking for a plugin that will allow me to add a user (or just an email address) on the post page and that person will be notified along with the site manager of new comments? Is this possible with your plugin?
Thanks
S
am 07.07.2008 um 00:44 Uhr:
I am trying to limit my contributors from adding categories. It seems logical that your “Manage Categories” option would enable/disable that ability, but it does not seem to work that way. Using latest version of Wordpress. Thoughts?
am 07.07.2008 um 04:17 Uhr:
I’ve been having a problem since WP 2.5.1 — I’m also using role manager 2.2.2.
I have multiple authors contributing to one of my blogs. I want them to have to submit a post for review only so I can publish it on a schedule (ie. some authors will submit 4 or 5 posts at once at the beginning of each month). But I also want them to be able to modify their posts once they’re published. If they try doing this (since I set the options to allow it), the post it kicked back to “pending review” rather than just being saved with the changes.
Anybody else having this issue? Any workarounds? I’m sure it has something to do with the latest WP code.
am 08.07.2008 um 12:16 Uhr:
How to use Custom Capabilities ?
I would like to deny acces for Editors to use some sections of wp-ecommerce plugin.
am 10.07.2008 um 17:38 Uhr:
Hi Thomas, I have updated the Farsi (Persian) language File. How can I send it to you?
am 11.07.2008 um 11:09 Uhr:
Kann ich mit dem RoleManager Plugin bestimmte Plugins und deren BE Einstellungen für bestimmte Roles freischalten wenn “Edit Plugins” deaktiviert ist und wie erstelle ich die dazugehörige Capability?
am 11.07.2008 um 21:05 Uhr:
it appears it’s not doing correct validation on capabilities. It won’t accept underscores such as audit_trail.
am 13.07.2008 um 07:40 Uhr:
nice plugin here mate. Very useful
am 14.07.2008 um 07:51 Uhr:
Hello:
I just upgraded and so far so good. I had this problem in the last version so I thought I’d ask again.
I’d like to be able to either limit viewable categories based on a user role. Or, allow certain roles to comment on private posts. Currently, anyone not an administrator can only view private posts w/no option to comment. Is there a way to add a capability to allow users to comment on private posts as well as viewing?
I used to use Category Levels to manage this last option but it doesn’t function with 2.5.1 and the developer seems to have abandoned it.
am 15.07.2008 um 09:48 Uhr:
cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
am 15.07.2008 um 20:07 Uhr:
So, I’m wondering if it is possible to manage what non-logged in users can do. I want to force people to be logged in to my blog in order to even read the content. If their role (unauthenticated) doesn’t permit them, then they shouldn’t be able to even see the entries. Is that even possible?
am 20.07.2008 um 08:18 Uhr:
I was looking at the trac on Codex and saw you had become owner of the ticket# 6014. When a role or user is given the ‘edit_users’ capability using your Role Manager plugin, they can change the roles of existing users to anything- even a role above their present user level. For example, an Author who has been given “edit-users’ by the plugin can promote himself to Admin.
At the end of the ticket, there is a comment:
“keywords changed from has-patch to has-patch capabilities”.
First of all, I very much appreciate you taking on this issue- in addition to your excellent plugin.
My questions is: where do we stand on this issue? Are you still waiting for reply from one of the core-developers?
If it still not ready, how can I go about making these changes myself?
Thanks very much
am 22.07.2008 um 01:14 Uhr:
Role Manager is a Great tool! Thanks. Just one question… I only need two of the traditional Roles for my blog site; Subscriber and Administrator. I would like to remove the others and insert my custom Roles. If I do, will that negatively impact WordPress in some way - in other words, does WordPress need these roles to remain in place to secure and stabilize code elsewhere in it’s files, database, etc.?
Thanks.
Barbara
am 24.07.2008 um 03:06 Uhr:
Wow! what a great plugin. In my efforts to make my wordpress site more like a business directory/community. There needed to be more control over the roles. This was the perfect solution. Great Job
am 25.07.2008 um 21:17 Uhr:
Is there a help document anywhere for this plugin? I am trying to limit specific users to only be able to post to specific categories and cannot seem to figure it out. Any help would be great!
am 29.07.2008 um 19:12 Uhr:
Hi ! Your plugin is really great ! Thanks a lot !
I’m wandering if it’s possible for a role (author, for example) to write a post, but not publish or edit it after it’s published ?
am 30.07.2008 um 11:02 Uhr:
Does the current version of the plugin support Wordpress 2.6?
am 30.07.2008 um 16:07 Uhr:
Since there doesn’t seem to be a wordpress.org plug-in page… has anyone tried it with 2.6?
am 30.07.2008 um 17:11 Uhr:
Yes, the plugin works fine with 2.6.
@moby:
Did you tried the “access by cats” plugin?
@Tobias Ross:
What did you mean “with a plugin page” on wordpress.org?
am 31.07.2008 um 00:51 Uhr:
@Jens, @anyone –
Is anyone else having the problem I’m having in which you can’t get the images to change color from green to red (or vice-versa) when you click on them? I’m having this problem in both fireFox and IE… which means I can’t change any of the capabilities!
Here’s the error I’m getting:
Using Firebug in FireFox, the problems seems to be a Javascript error:
missing ; before statement
createAJAX()tw-sack.js (line 43)
sack(undefined)tw-sack.js (line 192)
submitme(form#credentialed-lza__Login Redirect.cap_form users.php)users.php (line 79)
onsubmit(submit )
But I can’t seem to figure out what’s causing the error or how to get it fixed, and without it getting fixed, I can’t change any of the roles.
Can someone help? This is killing me…
Rex
am 31.07.2008 um 01:00 Uhr:
@Jens — can you help me figure out why I’m getting this javascript error with this plugin? This is the only plugin giving me the error, and the trace is showing the problem is with the RoleManager plugin.
@Thomas — Can you help? I’m pulling out my hair trying to get this to work!
Rex
am 31.07.2008 um 21:41 Uhr:
I upgraded wordpress to 2.6.x from 2.5.x and now role manager doesn’t seem to be working. Every page I go to tells me “Please Login or Register to read the rest of this content.”
I can access wordpress only if I change user role to admin or author. Level 0 -3 don’t seem to work. The only option they have in role manager is to read posts and nothing else.
Any ideas?
am 01.08.2008 um 01:29 Uhr:
Any simple way to create a capability like “see category 4″ using your plugin?
Don´t know much about WP, sorry for the simple question.
am 01.08.2008 um 06:22 Uhr:
Great plugin. Saves me manually modifying roles. One request though is that a user can only create roles at or bellow their level.
eg. An “editor” can create/manage new “editors”, “contributors” and “subscribers”
A “contributor” can create/manage new “contributors” and “subscribers”
We have a bunch of projects that involve wordpress where this would be a useful feature to have.
am 03.08.2008 um 15:34 Uhr:
it’s a great plugin but i think its not compatible with Nexgen…
am 06.08.2008 um 08:12 Uhr:
@Rex Reed - I have the same problem. But I do notice that while the icon does not change, the permission actually DOES change. So try clicking each just once (not over and over, which we tend to do when we think it’s not working) and then refresh the page. HTH!
am 06.08.2008 um 17:14 Uhr:
@Marci — this is a real problem. I have not seen ANY response from Thomas on this. And it’s quite frustrating. Either he is no longer working on the plugin, isn’t reading these comments, or doesn’t care about our problems. I would appreciate the courtesy of a response at the very least.
@Thomas — are you reading these comments? Can you please help us — these problems make your plugin almost useless!
Argh.
am 06.08.2008 um 18:26 Uhr:
@Rex and @Marci:
I read comments and I’m working on the plugin. I’m back from holiday now and checked your problem on a fresh 2.6 WordPress. No problems and no error messages in firebug. It seems you are using the same other plugin that changes somethink in the admin area. Did you deactivated all other plugins except the Role Manager? You are using the original admin theme?
am 07.08.2008 um 14:24 Uhr:
Hello Thomas
Please guide me…
I don’t want my subscribers and contributers make use of tags,catagories,Advanced options while writing a post(Can I hide them ?).They should not be able to change the defaults.
Thanks
am 08.08.2008 um 01:37 Uhr:
Role Manager does not allow the Anarchy Media player plugin to work. Can anyone tell me why?
am 08.08.2008 um 14:28 Uhr:
Hi, super Plugin!
Ich habe mich jetzt versucht schlau zu machen, aber leider vergebens. Ich möchte in meinem Blog die Verwaltung des Gästebuches einem externen User ermöglichen. Er soll aber nur dieses tun (und sehen) können und sonst nichts. Nach der Installation erscheint aber das Gästebuch gar nicht in der Liste der An- bzw. Abwahlmöglichkeiten. Ich habe dann versucht durch Quelltext ansehen etc. herauszufinden wie man es einfügen könnte, bin aber zu keinem Ergebnis gekommen. Bei Capabilities weis ich auch nicht was ich eintragen soll, vielleicht den Link zu dem Gästebuch Plugin? *grübel* Wäre nett wenn du mir etwas auf die Sprünge helfen könntest.
Liebe Grüße
Jörg
am 11.08.2008 um 06:05 Uhr:
Hi Tom,
This is exactly the plugin I needed for our company intranet site! I do have a question… I am using wp_downloadmanager plugin, as well. Is there a way I can “hide” all of the admin options of this plugin to a restricted user, except for the manage and add files links. I do not want them to be able to click the change options and uninstall links.
I’m hoping that there is a snippit of code I can add to that download plugin that will allow me to customize access visibility. Can I do this with a capability? If so, I guess I’ll have to admit I’m lost when it comes to implementing those…
Any advise would be appreciated.
Best,
Jennifer
am 11.08.2008 um 13:05 Uhr:
Hi,
Thanks for your nice plugin.i am looking for some plugin which can be enabled for some users like roles.
For example i want to enable export pdf plugin for selected users
Is it possible to control plugins with role manager.
Thanks
am 11.08.2008 um 15:33 Uhr:
Thanks for the plug-in. I’ve been experiencing a few problems after having added new users and adjusted hteir capabilities, the largest one being that some users receive a “would you like to edit this post” notice when they go to save their work, only to be told “you don’t have permission to edit this post.” Also sometimes I will make changes to a user’s post on the admin side and they can’t see it. All the users have the same permissions (I set them to editor - they can upload images, but they don’t have the ability to publish their own posts), so it’s hard to know why some people have this problem and others don’t.
am 13.08.2008 um 21:57 Uhr:
Thanks for the plug-in
am 18.08.2008 um 00:31 Uhr:
I am using WP ver 2.6. When I disable the “edit posts” in the Author role, they don’t have the Write option on the Dashboard. When I enable the “edit Posts” they have the option to Manage. Any way around this? I don’t want authors to manage.
Thanks for the great plugin!
am 21.08.2008 um 17:08 Uhr:
Thomas,
Great Plugin… thanks for allowing us to use this!
I am needing some help in defining a capability. I want an Editor to be able to add, delete and edit users. However, its gives the Editor full administrative rights which allows him to promote himself and change the administrator’s roles.
Is there a way to define a capability to restrict the editor to only be able to modify at his level or below? Looking at the old User Levels, this was built in to the levels, meaning a level 7 could not edit, delete or add a user above his level. Does not work with Role Manager, even when I change the user level number.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ed
am 22.08.2008 um 08:43 Uhr:
@Found By Design/Ed:
I have been raising this issue in different places. For example, see my post#444 on this board. Also, see ticket#6014 in WP Trac:
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6014
This is not a plugin issue, but problem with Core. No solution yet
am 25.08.2008 um 21:39 Uhr:
Hey Thomas,
just wanted to let you know that the current release 2.2.2 doesnt support WP 2.6’s renaming of the wp-content folder… the options pages are pretty ugly without css file.
am 29.08.2008 um 14:00 Uhr:
I’m in a bit of a panic. This plugin works, except it #1 has removed the capability of me to post as the admin (admin does not appear on the dropdown as an Author). I tried your fix plugin, but it didn’t work either because it doesn’t allow _ underscores in the capability names, but that’s what you told me to do in the instructions for that… THEN #2 I find out that it doesn’t work with Anarcy Media Player, which is essential for my blog.
So I removed both your plugins, but my admin account is STILL broken and can’t post! Not only that, all the permissions I set with your plugin appear to be permenant, and without your plugin, I have no way to change them back.
I’m seriously panicked. How can I make WP just go back to what it was before your plugin??? My system is screwed up now, and I have 6 contributors on my site and am using a complex CMS setup, so it’s not like I can just reinstall Wordpress, even though it’s a pretty new blog.
am 30.08.2008 um 14:22 Uhr:
hello I have a wpmu related que
I found this http://role-manager.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/role-manager/wpmu/ wpmu testversion but it seems pr
My question now would be, can’t I simply use plugin commander to activate tmanager plugin for all blogs, ung the role manager inside the per?
thus it woudl work like any normal plugin.
has anyone tested this?
am 03.09.2008 um 19:52 Uhr:
hi, can you tell me when will it be available the plugin for the 2.6.1 wordpress latest versiont?
it seems doesn’t work. have you any other suggestions?
regards
zakwer
am 04.09.2008 um 16:26 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
a really useful plugin!
will you be making the necessary corrections for 2.6.1?
Thanks
Richard
am 04.09.2008 um 17:16 Uhr:
@Alphawolf:
Next week I will release a version of Role Manager which support this new feature.
@zakwer and @Richard:
Where are your problems with 2.6.1?
am 05.09.2008 um 13:22 Uhr:
Ehy Thomas,
the matter is simple, as well: the plugin doesn’t appear in Users menu
[although it’s correctly activated]
thanks for your attention
zakwer
am 05.09.2008 um 13:45 Uhr:
…and admin has no more rights to post. I didn’t check any further and got the whole thing running again restoring the previous backup.
am 06.09.2008 um 22:32 Uhr:
Hello
Please
what is this mensage:
“A valid capability name can only have letters, digits and spaces. Try Role Managers “Spaces allowed in Capabilities” option.”
I want creat a new function! But i do not undestand this mensage
please
am 08.09.2008 um 11:13 Uhr:
Hi Thomas -
I’m using your plugin, and am having an issue that I’ve documented over on the WordPress forums: 404 error on private pages. I was wondering if you could take a look and possibly offer some insight on a solution. Thanks in advance!
am 09.09.2008 um 04:10 Uhr:
i found an incompatibility between anarchy media player & role manager plugins, too. the symptom is that remote (youtube, google) video players won’t load.
this is because the anarchy head script link ‘…/wp-content/plugins/anarchy_media/anarchy_media_player.php?anarchy.js’ only loads the anarchy usage page for the public site, with an error at the end:
”
Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: iwg_rolemanagementhelp in …/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php on line 72
”
if i disable role manager, anarchy works ok. it’s also not a capabilities problem: if i upgrade the user that posted the video to administrator, the right anarchy.js script still won’t load.
context:
* wp 2.0.12 (standard debian stable/ etch package)
* Anarchy Media Player 2.0 (http://an-archos.com/anarchy-media-player/)
* Role Manager 2.2.2
any info on what the problem is or how to fix this, anyone?
[ edit: cross posted at: http://fora.an-archos.com/viewtopic.php?t=226 ]
am 09.09.2008 um 08:30 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
ich habe die Tage deine Plugin Installiert. Bekomme jedoch wenn ich eine neue Gruppe anlegen will immer den Fehler “A valid role name can only have letters, digits and spaces” auch wenn ich die Option aktiviere das Leerzeichen erlaubt sind. Ich hab mal geschaut wo genau ich raus fliege und zwar in Zeile 315 in der role-manager.php. Bei dem “if ( preg_match(’/[\x80-\xff]/’, $t_ret_val)) …” was auch Korrekt ist da ich lediglich ASCII Zeichen angeben und keine UTF8 und somit “false” zurück geliefert wird. Dadurch springt der Compiler in das “else” in Zeile 325. Ich hab es für mein Problem einfach mal auskommentiert (was aber wohl nicht im Sinne des Erfinders liegt
) ich bin mir aber ziemlich sicher das da noch ein Problem liegt… Ich hab das ganze eben auch nur überflogen, evtl. hab ich auch was wichtiges übersehen weswegen der ganze abschnitt völlig richtig ist. Mir fehlt für mehr einfach die Zeit. Evtl. schaust du dir das mal selbst an und kannst das in deiner nächsten Version fixen.
Ich hab das ganze übrigens unter dem Aktuellen WP 2.6.1 getestet mit dem RM 2.2.2.
Gruß
Steffen
am 09.09.2008 um 14:51 Uhr:
Dear Thomas,
Thanks for great plugin.
I use it with inline tag to put javascript code in my post on wordpress.
Now, seem it work.
Hope you assist me when i have problem in advance.
Very much thanks,
C. Irene
am 09.09.2008 um 18:51 Uhr:
@zakwer and @Richard:
I’m working on a new release and hope to release it this week. I’ll look for your problems too
@Kim:
Your problem isn’t easy to resolve. But this can help you:
Create and publish the pages as admin but set as page-author the person, who should read, view and edit the page. Disable the capability “edit others pages” for all these users. Create and extra template for such “semi-private” pages and check in the template if the user has the right cap. If he/she doesn’t has the right cap show an error-message and not the content of the page. You can do the same (but more logic is needed) also in the sidebar or in a widget like your sources in the forum. And remember: publish the pages as public not as private - this is important!
Hope this can help you.
@jeroenvg:
I’ll check this on 2.6.1 when I programming the new Role Manager Version this week.
2.0.12 is not the youngest
@Steffen:
Danke für Deine ausführliche Erklärung. Da Deine Seite aber mit UTF-8 Kontent ausliefert, ist das Ganze ein wenig komplizierter. Auch wenn Du Dich im normalen ASCII-Raum “bewegst”. Kannst Du mir mal ein Beispiel schicken, was Du eingegeben hast?
am 09.09.2008 um 19:15 Uhr:
Wordpress Plugin Role Manager, em Português
Disponibilizo para download a tradução do plugin para Wordpress Role Manager (Administrador de Perfis).
O WordPress versão 2.0 apresentou o conceito de Perfis. Com este plugin, para cada Perfil é permitido executar um conjunto de tarefas chamado Pe…
am 09.09.2008 um 22:33 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
ok das ist richtig. Also ich habe nichts spezielles eingegeben. Mein Rollen-Name lautet: “Translator|User role” wie es bei zig anderen auch der Fall ist. Auch andere Kombinationen etc. brachten keinen Erfolg weshalb ich auf einen Bug irgendwo in der Prozedur tippe. Lasse mich da aber auch gerne etwas besseren belehren
Arbeite noch nicht lange genug mit WP so das mir noch etliche Grundstrukturen davon fehlen. (1 1/5 wochen 
).
Bei dem preg_match überprüfst du doch nur die Eingabe des Namen für die Benutzerrolle. In dieser sind doch auch gar keine Zeichen erlaubt die Außerhalb des ASCII bereich liege, oder übersehe ich da etwas?
Danke für die schnelle Antwort und Gruß
Steffen
am 11.09.2008 um 16:43 Uhr:
Can ‘Edit Other Posts’ be further defined by user level? E.g. If I have posts by authors of type ‘contributor’ and posts by authors of type ‘author’ I’d like contributors to be able to edit each other posts but not author posts, and likewise authors to be able to edit other author posts.
Is this just a configuration issue in the brilliant plugin? Or is this a new feature request? And if its a new feature request can you kindly include it in the next release? Or can I hack the plugin to achieve a similar effect somehow.
cheers
scotjam
am 12.09.2008 um 11:51 Uhr:
Hi!
I,ve just created Polish language version of this plugin. It is available for download right here.
BTW, GREAT WORK!!! And it works with WP 2.6.2
Keep it going!
am 13.09.2008 um 22:50 Uhr:
Is there a way to make it so that a Contributer can only see their own draft posts (or draft and published posts would be okay too) in the Manage Posts page? I’d like users to be able to submit their own articles, and not be confused with all the other articles.
am 14.09.2008 um 01:03 Uhr:
In addition to my above post, I’d sure like to remove the Manage Comments page from specified Roles. As it is now, a lowly Contributor can read comments in moderation! That’s not good. They should not even be able to see any comments, let alone ones in moderation.
am 16.09.2008 um 04:59 Uhr:
This plugin is absolutely essential in my work flow. i use Wordpress as a CMS for my clients and I love being able to limit what they can mess up. I have customized the CSS of the wp-admin area as well.
Is there a way to limit a role’s ability to change the admin color scheme via the User Profile page?
am 16.09.2008 um 20:01 Uhr:
i found the cause for my problem in #481.
role-manager.php: line:23: require_once(’help.php’);
php searches the include path and finds…
../wp-content/plugins/anarchy_media/help.php
…before…
../wp-content/plugins/role-manager/help.php
…that’s why class iwg_rolemanagementhelp can’t be instantiated; the wrong help.php - the one from the anarchy_media directory - is included.
would it be possible for you to rename your ‘help.php’ file to ‘rm-help.php’, or something? (i asked the same from the anarchy media player dev.)
am 17.09.2008 um 16:54 Uhr:
Hi Thomas
Did you see the new wordpress release? What about the patch you were preparing?
Do you have a dead line?
Thank you and still waiting
am 18.09.2008 um 21:59 Uhr:
@jeroenvg:
Great work - I will change the code.
@zakwer:
Yes - and the new RoleManager is in the pipeline. But I’m really a bit busy in the moment - programming with Donncha and working with Nurudin Jauhari on themes for my latest project, called seglr. It is a multiblog for sailors, like me
But I hope to fisnishing the work on RoleManager at the weekend to give all of you a stable new version.
@Mark:
Did you tried to remove the “* others” caps, eg. edit “others posts”. And your second question: No, there is no way to do this with the Role Manager, bacaus the core produced the page. It is an old problem on WordPress.
@Robmoffett:
No, I don’t think so. But I don’t know the corecode from WordPress to produce this in the moment.
am 19.09.2008 um 12:45 Uhr:
Hey, I have your plugin running on several sites, all same wordpress version.
But on one server I ran into an open_basedir restriction problem.
I don’t know why that is, but when comparing with other plugins I found a fix that works for me:
In the file: role-manager.php
There is a problem with the required commands, cause they are looking in the wrong folder. So I added a line and changed the required commands a bit.
Here is what I did:
$rm_plugin_dir = dirname(__FILE__);
require_once($rm_plugin_dir.'/role-management.php');
require_once($rm_plugin_dir.'/capability-management.php');
require_once($rm_plugin_dir.'/general.php');
require_once($rm_plugin_dir.'/help.php');
case you want to contact me, I could also speek German.
And by the way the plugin is great!
am 22.09.2008 um 05:51 Uhr:
I’m having some problems with this plugin. I want to add a single ability to the existing user roles: I was authors to be able to moderate ALL comments. But when I add the “Moderate Comments” capability, nothing happens
I’m using Wordpress 2.6.2.
Thanks,
Nick
am 24.09.2008 um 10:33 Uhr:
tell me can you modify this module for joomla ?
am 29.09.2008 um 23:09 Uhr:
Hi, how i can uninstall rolmanager?… because with this plugin i can´t uninstall or install others plugins… i haven´t access to plugins.php Help!!! is urgent. Very Thanks
am 01.10.2008 um 04:45 Uhr:
I have two questions, if someone would be kind enough to help me…
Firstly, I would like to remove permissions for writing links (write -> links) and managing link categories (manage -> link categories) while still retaining the ability for those users to write and edit posts, pages, and categories. Is there any way to do this?
Secondly, I have a couple of plugins - one that gives permissions to all users above subscriber (and I’d rather it didn’t), and one that only appears for admins which I would like to appear for another role. Could somebody please explain how to create custom capabilities in Role Manager (the blank textaea means nothing to me), or point me towards a place where I can read about it?
Many thanks,
Krissie xx
am 03.10.2008 um 19:38 Uhr:
hello. i have installed role manager 2.2.3 in wordpress 2.6.1. i gave create, edit and delete permissions to the ‘editor’ role. the editor is now able to make himself an administrator. is this normal? is there any way to keep user hierarchy intact while still letting editors create accounts. for example, is it possible that an editor with create, edit, delete user to be restricted to creating, editing or deleting only users lower than editor? thanks for your plugin! peter
am 04.10.2008 um 04:17 Uhr:
Peter,
Others have also found this bug. This was brought up in the Wordpress Trac as a potential security issue. No word yet if the developers of WP will address it, but jeremyclark has created a patch that does work.
I have installed the patch and it works fine.
Special note about Delete and Create: Even with this patch, lower roles can delete and create higher roles. However, this patch will prevent the editing of higher roles.
Personally, I did not add the Delete permission and while I did allow the “create” permission, I modified the core of my WP install to not allow the Create User option to allow the addition of a new Admin.
The patch and documentation can be found at
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6014
Good luck.
am 04.10.2008 um 04:32 Uhr:
@Ed Nailor: Care to share what code you hacked in the core to get this accomplished? Thanks.
There are a lot of folks wanting this issue to be resolved, I hope the devs come up with something soon. Meanwhile, if we can use your hack…
am 04.10.2008 um 20:51 Uhr:
Thank you for this plugin. It’s extremely useful for managing multiple authors on a blog, especially to allow the Contributor level to upload images, especially since after WP 2.5 removed the ability to do so.
am 08.10.2008 um 12:22 Uhr:
Hello!
Great plugin! Is it possible to restrict certain users from using tags? Tags are becoming increasingly popular for assigning things like feeds or featured sections on homepages.
I would love to be able to allow authors to publish content, but not assign tags without my input.
Many thanks!
am 10.10.2008 um 15:25 Uhr:
Ganz gute Idee. Mit dieser plug-in kann man ganz leicht kolektif arbeiten.
am 14.10.2008 um 08:23 Uhr:
Hello! I’m using this great plugin, but I have a problem: I want to create a role that can only publish article; these article must be approved from a moderator; when I create the role and set it with capability “publish post” and I enter in the control panel, I don’t found the link “publish” to publish a post. Why? How can I solve? Thanks
am 16.10.2008 um 23:40 Uhr:
Hi,
I’m trying to create a Moderator Role (someone who can moderate comments). If I start by using a copy of the Editor, and disable what I don’t like for the Moderator, disabling “Edit Others Posts” results in loss of the ability to moderate comments. “Moderate Comments” is still turned on. Any ideas?
Thanks!
am 20.10.2008 um 14:26 Uhr:
Hi, I am playing with WP & rolemanager. I would like someone to be able to:
- post (edit, publish, delete published)
- edit published pages, but not make new ones or delete them.
This seems to be (partly) impossible: You have to give someone editing rights in order to edit published pages, otherwise the option: Manage > Page does not show up. Is this correct?
Right now I end up with giving someone editing rights without publishing rights, so someone can only submit a new page for review - but not publish.
(Which brings me to another inconsitency in post 2).
TIA, Jeroen Goulooze
WordPress-Version : 2.6.2
WordPress-Db-Version : 8204
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.03 (131587)
PHP-Version : 5.2.3
preg_replace : yes
am 20.10.2008 um 14:35 Uhr:
Post 2
Hi,
Giving someone the ability to edit published pages and at the same time take away someones right to publish a page does not take away the rights to publish and already published page.
For me this is not a problem - it would help working around the issue in my first post - but I have some experience working in an environment where this would be an absolute no-no.
(Regarding my first and second post: I have not checked the way publishing and editing posts are handled in this regard.)
Anyway: thanks for the hard work!
Jeroen
am 20.10.2008 um 18:49 Uhr:
I’ve tried a different approach: create a contributor and added (to this one user) the “Moderate Comments” capability (in the user profile). No change from the user point of view. As far as I can tell the rol has the same name in WordPress 2.6.2 so I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. Any ideas?
WordPress-Version : 2.6.2
WordPress-Db-Version : 8204
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.03 (131587)
PHP-Version : 5.1.6
preg_replace : yes
am 04.11.2008 um 00:41 Uhr:
I am running Wordpress 2.3.2 and I have the Role manager plug enabled. How ever I can not see the tabs under “User”. Has anyone seen this before?
am 04.11.2008 um 18:45 Uhr:
hey, this plugin is awsome! a little question: how create a role for moderation? this user only allow ou deny comments
am 05.11.2008 um 05:04 Uhr:
Hi,
Thanks for the really valuable plugin. I am attempting to create an upload/download space for graphic design clients to leave source files and download drafts and deliverables. I thought I could use WP-DownloadManager 1.31 By Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan in conjunction with Rolemanager and Post Levels to give it control. The problem is that I do not want to enable access to the complete Downloadmanager controls and am having trouble assigning Capabilities to turn off the Download Options, Download Templates, and Uninstall WP-DownloadManager menus. Tried using the obvious hooks but they don’t seem to do anything. I can’t seem to find any instruction on the mechanics of assigning capabilities. Any Ideas?
Thanx,
Jeff Sheets
am 07.11.2008 um 10:23 Uhr:
Hello Thomas,
I wonder if and how I can use the Role Manager to allow a Group of Users to use the PageMash Plugin http://joelstarnes.co.uk/blog/pagemash.
I created a new Capabilitie “Pagemash” and allowed it to the Usergroup under Role.
Guess that’s not the way it works?
am 07.11.2008 um 13:32 Uhr:
Hi, congrats and thanks for this excellent plugin.
Im using it in conjunction with role_scoper plugin ( http://agapetry.net/news/introducing-role-scoper/ ) and a hacked version of more_privacy_options plugin ( http://wpmudev.org/project/More-Privacy-Options ) under wordpress mu.
i am aware that role_manager (and role_scoper i believe) arent yet formally supported on the wp mu environment, but it seems to ’sort of’ work so far - although ive only done rudimentary testing so far (there are just so many options to work through).
i would be very interested in working with others to get a stable solution based around this type of config.
can you (or anyone else) offer any advice/guidance/experience in this direction?
thanks again
am 07.11.2008 um 18:09 Uhr:
hi thomas, you replied to an earlier question of mine saying that you were able to change the wordpress code to stop people from being able to create users with “admin” role. can you point me to where that code is? i know ASP, but not PHP. however, i think i could figure it out if you told me what you did. my post is #500, your reply is #501.
thanks!
am 07.11.2008 um 18:26 Uhr:
Peter,
I did this too and had replied, but did not tell you what I did. My PC has since crashd and I do not have access to the exact files, but I can tell you how I found the code to change.
Log in to the backend and go to the Users page. Once there, view the source code and look for the listing of user roles. Then go to the Admin files and look for the php code that creates this. Keep in mind that this is a one line code, and will not look like the source code. However, if you replace that line with the section of the source code that allows the selection of the role, you can simply remove the Admin level from the code. That is what I did.
Since I am the admin and have access to the database, if I need to add anyone as an admin, I can add them and then log in to the database and upgrade them there.
Hope that helps.
Ed
am 08.11.2008 um 10:48 Uhr:
I installed the 1.4.5 for wordpress 2.6.3, because at that time did not find the latest version, Now i can’t find the ‘plug-ins’ button, I would like to ask how to uninstall 1.4.5. Help!!!
am 09.11.2008 um 03:29 Uhr:
issue: role manager disables wp profile page for users other than admin
a fresh role manager with default roles hides the wp profile page (../wp-admin/profile.php) behind an error page…
“You are not allowed to do this here”
…for any user but admin.
i think this is a bug, because every user - even a subscriber - in a stock wp has the permission to edit his profile through the ‘read’ capability, so he can edit his name, contact information and password.
this is caused by the capability checks in file role-manager.php, function user_has_permissions(), line 398:
...if (current_user_can('edit_users') && current_user_can($this->neededcap)) {
$ret_val = true;
}
...
if this is changed to:
...if (current_user_can('read')) {
$ret_val = true;
}
...
the profile page is accessible again for every registered user, but role managers’ menu options are still only shown to administrators, and their uri’s…
* profile.php?page=role-management.php
* profile.php?page=role-manager/capability-management.php
* profile.php?page=general.php
* profile.php?page=help.php
…still disallowed to users other than administrator.
or am i missing something?
am 10.11.2008 um 07:07 Uhr:
Great Plugin - hope support continues (since others like Role Scoper are a little too invasive for my comfort–total DB redesign? Ack!)
Quick question: Is there a way to totally disable and wipe the restrictions and additions assigned by this plugin to a user? When I deactivate, it leaves all those restrictions, and I have to manually change them in the usermeta table in the DB.
I like plugins that clean up after themselves… (or at least give you a “purge” option.)
am 23.11.2008 um 12:49 Uhr:
I have a similar problem to #519.
As soon as a user updates their profile, they get the following error message.
“You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
The url is
http://www.ebooksjustpublished.com/wp-admin/profile.php?updated=true&wp_http_referer
After this, if I look at their account, their Role has been set to None.
This occurs for both Subscribers and Contributors.
Any help would be much appreciated.
am 23.11.2008 um 13:16 Uhr:
In regards to #521. Found the problem and it was nothing to do with the Role Manager plugin. I’d defined a custom profile field called ‘Role’ with the Register-Plus plugin. This was causing the confusion - I assume that WP itself has a field called ‘Role’ for each user account.
am 27.11.2008 um 10:42 Uhr:
I’ve just downloaded & installed the plugin.
It’s Absolutly BRILLIANT!
Thanks very much.
am 01.12.2008 um 19:38 Uhr:
There is a huge problem with this plugin. It allows contributors to delete every image in the media library! For my site, anyone can sign up and become a contributor and upload images, but I urgently need a way to block them from deleting images.
help!
am 01.12.2008 um 19:40 Uhr:
I think that blocking the ability of contributors to delete images would greatly improve this plugin. If you email me, I’ll even pay you via paypal to hack this up!
am 04.12.2008 um 11:29 Uhr:
Hello,
Have been using this plugin for a while now and it is great. I keep installing it in the latest version of wordpress and it keeps working but I wonder if it will still be compatible with wordpress 2.7? Thanks.
am 04.12.2008 um 22:22 Uhr:
This plugin doesn’t work properly. I have 4 users and each one has their own page. I want them to be able to edit their page, but not any other pages. I opened each user and assigned them the additional capability “edit pages”. But when the user logs in and tries to view their page, it says “you are not allowed to edit this page”.
am 04.12.2008 um 22:25 Uhr:
Never mind that last comment. I just saw the option “edit published pages”. Works great now. Thanks.
am 05.12.2008 um 17:58 Uhr:
Hi,
läuft das ganze auch mit WP 2.7 ohne Probleme?
am 05.12.2008 um 19:22 Uhr:
Hi,
I wonder whether my Role Manager installation got problem. Here my questions:-
1. New Capability Name - Is this suppose only for creating and purge new name only. Because I don’t notice any other functionality at this at my site. I believe I should see some setting options for a new capability.
2. Author Role - On creating post, how do I remove Advance Options buttons from users. I want the users to see only Title, Post, Tag & Category options
I don’t find answer to this anywhere else. So please help.
Thank you
am 11.12.2008 um 12:43 Uhr:
Hello,
I just installed this plugin on WP 2.7 and so far it seems to be fine. Please let me know if anyone else has issues. I added it to the compatibility codex for WP 2.7 for you.
am 13.12.2008 um 21:26 Uhr:
This plugin works in WP2.7 mostly. The only issue I have seen so far (and is in 2.6.x), is that a user can not edit his own comments without edit_post and edit_others_posts enabled. This is a problem seeing as this gives them access to all comments and posts. However if edit_others_posts is disabled they only have access to their own posts, but cannot edit their own comments.
(To Clarify: edit_published_posts is enabled.)
Other than that it works great.
am 16.12.2008 um 15:32 Uhr:
am 16.12.2008 um 15:32 Uhr:
Hy,
Your plugin does not work correctly with WordPress 2.7. For example, if we created a role ‘Moderator’, with the permission of moderate comments. Users’ moderator ‘can not moderate comments.
Have you planned an update, because your plugin is very useful, and I could not get through.
A big thank you for your work.
By
Sorry: same snetErz’s problems
I need to read more diligently comments:)
am 22.12.2008 um 01:32 Uhr:
i have the same problem with graham “#525″ how we block deleting images.
am 22.12.2008 um 21:44 Uhr:
I *love* this plug in, but I am having difficulty finding the users tab after upgrading to 2.7 to use it. We use this all the time to allow a community of artists to upload and share their work with each other. Without it, new members aren’t able to upload now.
I’m resorting to hacking the database at this point in time…
deb
am 24.12.2008 um 19:49 Uhr:
Man your plugin is very good but have other plugin that i more complet, but doesn’t function right. Is’s adminize, it doesn’t bring the information about permissions and restriction of the data base. Can you could fix it and disponibilize here for us? thnks and sory my english, I am brazilian!
am 24.12.2008 um 20:35 Uhr:
I get “You must enter a capability name.” when I try to change a user from one role to another. (i.e. admin to subscriber)
am 27.12.2008 um 01:03 Uhr:
In both WP 2.6 and now 2.7, I allowed the role “contributor” to publish posts, but when I create a test member as a “contributor,” I can’t figure out how to publish a post.
As far as I can see, the “Contributor’s” dashboard does not allow for posts to be created.
What should I be seeing?
How should I configure Role Manager to allow specified users to publish posts?
Best and thanks…hope I can get this to work!
Peace,
Dainis
am 29.12.2008 um 13:06 Uhr:
For any user I don’t have WYSIWYG editor in posts (it is turn on in profile), what should I do? Why it doesn’t work?
It works only for admin (first account), even I give some user admin rights he doesn’t have WYSIWYG
am 29.12.2008 um 17:55 Uhr:
Nevermind
It’s ok now 
am 29.12.2008 um 20:00 Uhr:
After creating a copy of the admin role, I found the following problems with WP 2.7, when logged in using the new role:
2.7 Admin Pulldowns don’t work right. You must double click on the title and you can only have one of them open at a time.
Plugin incompatability:
BTEV Event Viewer
Category Order
pageMash
FeedBurner
Login Lockdown
DDSiteMapGen
TinyMCE Advanced
wp-security
am 30.12.2008 um 09:03 Uhr:
I still can’t get “contributors” to be able to contribute posts in WP 2.7.
am 06.01.2009 um 11:22 Uhr:
Hallo Thomas,
Zuerst möchte ich dir zu diesem Plugin gratulieren!
Es ist echt spitze.
Eine Frage hätte ich jedoch…
Ich möchte, dass der Admin beim editieren eines Users nicht die Möglichkeit hat die Rolle zu ändern.
Also dass unter der Passworteingabe eines Users die Berechtigungsübersicht erscheint.
Kannst du mir bitte sagen wo ich das ausschalten kann?
Danke,
Roman
am 06.01.2009 um 11:50 Uhr:
I figured it out. “Edit Posts” does not mean “Edit All Posts.”
“Edit Posts” means “Edit Own Posts,” and needs to be on. It only allows the role to edit own posts, but not the posts of others. For that, there is an option “Edit Others Posts.”
I’m not looking at the settings right now, so I might not be wording things correctly, but the plugin does work.
Best,
Dainis
am 07.01.2009 um 23:56 Uhr:
Hallo
Ich habe ein Problem beim Ändern oder Kopieren von Rollen
Ich änder den Text ( z.b. auf VL|User role) und bekomme immer solche Fehlermeldungen
A valid role name can only have letters, digits and spaces
nach ändern auf nur VL bekomme ich
A valid capability name can only have letters, digits and spaces. Try Role Managers “Spaces allowed in Capabilities” option.
wo liegt mein fehler ?
gruß lemmi
okay fehler gefunden
er war ca 40 cm vorm monitor
die lösung gab es hier
http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/2007/12/21/role-manager-221-released/
am 08.01.2009 um 17:59 Uhr:
Where can I send you the Spanish files for Role Manager?
am 09.01.2009 um 01:31 Uhr:
Hallo
Ich noch mal
als normaler Besucher meiner seite kann ich jetzt werder das Impressum noch das Gästebuch öffnen
Was hab ich diesmal falsch gemacht ? ( ich vermute ich hätte nich alle originalen rollen löschen dürfen oder ? )
am 09.01.2009 um 17:44 Uhr:
Servus Thomas,
sag, kommt eine Version für WP 2.7? Role Manager ist bei mir seit längerem problem- und konfliktfrei im einsatz und ich würde nur ungern darauf verzichten. gibt ja auch keinen ersatz für deine qualitätsarbeit
am 10.01.2009 um 12:36 Uhr:
I have just upgraded to WP2.7 and I can’t view the details of any plugins that need to be upgraded. I believe there are a few new roles which haven’t been included in Role Manager yet.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
am 12.01.2009 um 17:17 Uhr:
Great plug in! I have up graded to 2.7 and found an issue with Contributors up loading content useing the Wordpress Download Monitor’s upload button on the add new post page. (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/download-monitor/)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Best, Nico
am 12.01.2009 um 17:35 Uhr:
P.s. Below is the error message :
Warning: IWG_RoleManagement::require_once(../../../wp-content/plugins//usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-management.php) [function.IWG-RoleManagement-require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php on line 64
Fatal error: IWG_RoleManagement::require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../../../wp-content/plugins//usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-management.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear’) in /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php on line 64
- I am going to llok into the code at line 64, but do not want to mess with your plug in
Thanks!
am 13.01.2009 um 12:47 Uhr:
Hi!
I just installed this, and as I store all plugins in /usr/local/share/wordpress/plugins for ease of updating across many sites, the installation failed. The reason was that
$plugin_pathis defined on line 62 of role-manager.php as$this->wp_content_dir.'/plugins/'. plugin_basename(dirname(__FILE__));Changing this to
$plugin_path = dirname(__FILE__);should still work for “normal” installations, and also works for me.Thanks for a great plugin!
P.S. Nico - my fix might solve your problem too, as that’s the same line number I received an error for.
am 13.01.2009 um 15:07 Uhr:
I got an error message, that´s coming with all wp 2.7-installations and 2.7-compatible plugins in older wp installations:
Warning: iwg_rolemanagement(/home/43248/domains/aerztejobs09.at/html/wp-content/plugins//nfs/c02/h04/mnt/43248/domains/aerztejobs09.at/html/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-management.php) [function.iwg-rolemanagement]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /nfs/c02/h04/mnt/43248/domains/aerztejobs09.at/html/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php on line 64
Fatal error: iwg_rolemanagement() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/43248/domains/aerztejobs09.at/html/wp-content/plugins//nfs/c02/h04/mnt/43248/domains/aerztejobs09.at/html/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-management.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php-4.4.8-1/share/pear’) in /nfs/c02/h04/mnt/43248/domains/aerztejobs09.at/html/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php on line 64
am 13.01.2009 um 16:00 Uhr:
Ben! Thank you for posting that fix! It’s working, yeah!!
am 14.01.2009 um 22:40 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
Thanks for your great plugin, i just download and installed it, it works great. I’m finding user roles management plugin to set contributor can add tags, save draft etc. I’m happy to find your plugin, really thanks!
am 14.01.2009 um 22:53 Uhr:
I am having an issue with Role Manager and NextGen Gallery. It won’t let me change the permissions involving the gallery settings, and complains about non-standard characters in the capabilities. It would be great if this could be resolved.
am 15.01.2009 um 11:31 Uhr:
First off, love the plugin.
It looks like all the capabilities are put into the wp_usermeta, and then into wp_capabilities for each userID.
I’m kind of missing that this great plugin gets its own table in the database, kind of like the wp_terms table or a seperate collumn in the wp_users.
I’m asking because I would love to lookup in a cell for a single capability. So instead of making a long if-else argument with current_user_can then I could say get this cell and get the coresponding info from let’s say the username (if the cellcapability was a username).
Hope my question makes sence, I feel it’s kind of complex
am 16.01.2009 um 18:52 Uhr:
I have one problem. I’d created a role but in the editor of post there isn’t some button. why? Excuse for my english i’m italian blogger. Ingenuo
am 19.01.2009 um 13:03 Uhr:
Hi, I have your Role manager installed. I seem to be havig some difficulty with a plugin. I had to upgrade it. Since upgrading, I have found that I cant change the roles, it just wont let me. Do you have to deactivate the role manager before updating, or is it ok to leave it running. It is affect thign running of the plugin now.
Thank you for your help
John
am 19.01.2009 um 19:17 Uhr:
I love this plugin. It would be nice if it were included in the Wordpress plugins directory. I’m using it on Wordpress 2.7 (on multiple blogs) and it works flawlessly.
am 19.01.2009 um 21:24 Uhr:
Please change depreciated get_settings() to get_option() on new release.
am 21.01.2009 um 12:22 Uhr:
Hi, your plugin is so great! I have 2 questions tho:
1/ I don’t authorize Moderate Comment for a user and the Comment Menu is still appearing and the user can edit/modify the comments even if I didn’t authorized him… Any idea why?
2/ I don’t authorize Import for a user but the Tools Menu is still appearing… How can I hide the whole Tools Menu (tools.php)?
I dunno if these are bugs or errors from me. Thanks a lot for your help!
am 21.01.2009 um 16:12 Uhr:
So, is there any danger if I enable spaces in capabilities?
In understand what you say on trac #5255 about “cap 1″ == “cap 1″ being potentially dangerous. Is there any other issue besides that one?
am 23.01.2009 um 04:21 Uhr:
Hei man, do u can integrates this plugin with ozh dropdown menu?? When I put a role restrict the unused buttons stay without href linke. Thx!
am 23.01.2009 um 07:32 Uhr:
Hallo Thomas,
erst einmal danke für Dein tolles Plugin
Eine Frage hätte ich dazu 
Ich bräuchte eine weitere Rolle. Leider verstehe ich nicht wie ich sie einrichten kann.
Ich benötige einen Punkt mit dem ich Autoren berechtige, Kommentare (nur) für eigene geschriebene Artikel freizuschalten.
Wäre sowas einfach zu realisieren? Wenn Du mir vielleicht eine kurze Rückinfo per Email geben könntest.
Vielen Dank im voraus.
Gruß MiKe
am 25.01.2009 um 07:09 Uhr:
hi very nice plugin i love it so much
Thanks for this script. it’s very useful at my site
Thanks again.
am 25.01.2009 um 17:56 Uhr:
Hi,
ich habe Probleme das Plugin zu aktivieren. Es erscheint ein Server Error 500. Leider muss ich das auch bei anderen Plugins feststellen. Beispielsweise der Gallery NextGen.
Liegt es an den Plugins und einer nicht 100%iger Wordpress 2.7-Kompatibilität?
Über einige Tipps würde ich mich sehr freuen.
Denis
am 26.01.2009 um 14:22 Uhr:
Hi there,
Absolutely love this plugin - makes up for an area in which WordPress is severely lacking.
I had one query. One of the scenarios I often encounter is that I would set up a special “Site Admin” user. This would be for clients of ours that don’t need full admin privileges, but need a bit more than the ‘editor’ role.
In many cases it is necessary for me to give them the capability of adding and editing users - however, by doing so they can edit and add users at full admin level - this opens the danger of an untrained user having access to plugin settings etc that they shouldn’t be touching
I would love to see it possible to ensure that roles given the capability of adding/editing users could only grant roles equal to or less than their own user level. This would avoid the danger of new users accidentally being given admin access.
I hope this makes sense and I look forward to future releases of this crucial plugin!
Kind regards,
Alex
am 27.01.2009 um 07:00 Uhr:
Hi Thank you for providing us such great tool “Role Manager”!
Since I installed your plugin I didn’t have a chance creating (adding) users but I was enjoying using your plugin. But recently I realized that there is no “add user” button located below the user-list when I tried to create new user as a administrator(all the privileges activated).
I actually could see the add user button below the user-list and created users from that before I installed your plugin, and in fact, plugin’s role setting page doesn’t also have a privilege “Create Users” but “Delete Users”…
If you have any idea about this, please help me
Thanks
am 27.01.2009 um 17:41 Uhr:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/237908?replies=2#post-967947
I could solve problem by myself. Sorry to make a big drama about it!
Also I could actually create user privilege “Create User”. I think that it seems like I deleted “create user” from manage role somehow before…
Anyway now I’m very happy:)
am 28.01.2009 um 00:49 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
I would just like to express my appreciation for sharing this plugin. This is a very useful one when creating an article directory on Wordpress.
am 29.01.2009 um 20:11 Uhr:
Excelent job, i waste like 2 hours to set up role scooper.
And with this plug; just a pairs of clicks and works perfect!
am 31.01.2009 um 02:21 Uhr:
Very useful plugin, many thanks.
am 31.01.2009 um 21:27 Uhr:
cute!
when the next version, for wp 2.7?
thanks for your work!!
am 03.02.2009 um 15:10 Uhr:
As Thomas didn’t show up here since 1.1.2009, i fear Role Manager turned into another no longer supported jewel (sigh). I hope it would be possible for someone to take over development from him, if Thomas doesn’t find the time to go on.
am 04.02.2009 um 20:29 Uhr:
Can we assume this plugin will not develop any further?
Thanks for your time and effort anyway, you’ve done a great job.
am 09.02.2009 um 07:56 Uhr:
When activated, and I try and change an admin’s password on the admin user-edit side, upon save it states on a blank screen:
“A valid capability name can only have letters, digits and spaces”
when deactivated and the capabilities not showing, it saves okay.
am 09.02.2009 um 12:17 Uhr:
Hi there,
Useful looking plugin, BUT:
a) It’s pretty rude for a plugin to install a file with a hex-encoded name (%c3%a9-%c3%a9%c2%a6%c3%a9%c2%af%c3%a9+%c3%a9%c2%bf%c3%b4%c2%a6%c3%a9%c2%a6%c3%a9%c2%a1%c3%a9+%c3%a9%c2%a6%c3%a9%c3%b3.txt)
b) When I modify a capability, I get this error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class rolemanager in /local2/www.savethechildren.org.uk_newsite/docroot/assets/php/wp/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php on line 22
c) Are you actively maintaining this plugin anymore? Seems that something like this is sorely needed - I can’t believe this functionality isn’t built in!
Cheers,
- Bobby
am 11.02.2009 um 00:07 Uhr:
Suggestion:
http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=2390
am 11.02.2009 um 18:19 Uhr:
Great plugin! Is there anyway to restrict access to the dashboard and user edit profile pages for level 0 users? I don’t want any level 0 users to be able to access any wordpress admin page. THANKS!!
am 12.02.2009 um 19:00 Uhr:
One problem I am experiencing with Role Manager in 2.7 is not allowing users to delete posts. The Delete Posts, Delete Published Posts and Delete Others Posts have no affect. The Edit Published Posts option controls if a user can delete personal posts and the Edit Others Posts option controls if a user can delete other users’ posts. Unfortunately I can’t allow a user to edit a post, but not delete the post. Hope this helps with any planned updates in the future.
am 13.02.2009 um 02:33 Uhr:
And what you thought of that suggestion?
http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic.php?id=2390
It would be interesting also you make a plugin with this functionality as it would be related to this actual plugin. Or is something very complex to be done?
I speak this because I do not know much programming, I do not know the level of difficulty of doing this, and would a clarification.
Thank you.
am 16.02.2009 um 17:48 Uhr:
Have the dev of this plugin gone dead or what?
am 17.02.2009 um 20:49 Uhr:
Graham said:
There is a huge problem with this plugin. It allows contributors to delete every image in the media library!
—————
Actually not - it only looks like they can delete those images. And that’s an issue for the WordPress core, not Role Manager. WP 2.7.1 lists the whole Media Library to any user who has the upload_files capability. Every file has a bulk delete checkbox next to it, but you can’t actually delete or edit the file unless you can edit the post that it’s attached to.
FYI, WordPress stores all role definitions in one record of the wp_options table (option name wp_user_roles). All Role Manager does is update that record with your desired list of capabilities. It’s WordPress that decides how to apply any capability your users may have.
am 17.02.2009 um 21:29 Uhr:
Sneeze said:
(since others like Role Scoper are a little too invasive for my comfort–total DB redesign? Ack!)
Páginas Web Económicas said:
Excelent job, i waste like 2 hours to set up role scooper. And with this plug; just a pairs of clicks and works perfect!
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I don’t want to use this to promote other plugins, but since mine came up I want to correct a couple misconceptions.
Role Scoper and Role Manager are not competing plugins. They are complementary, both role-related but providing different functionality. Role Manager basically just adds a missing control panel to WordPress, allowing you to customize the capabilities which are contained in each role. Those changes increase or decrease the blog-wide capabilities of some set of users. The effect is the same as if you would use phpMyAdmin to manually edit the wp_user_roles option in your database.
Role Scoper does not seek to replace Role Manager’s customization of blog-wide WordPress role defintions. Instead it introduces the ability to restrict or empower users for particular categories or individual posts/pages/page branches. The reading / editing rights for selected content can be modified independent of your users’ blog-wide WordPress role. Role Scoper’s configuration is intentionally flexible and potentially complex. If you only care about modifying blog-wide role definitions then by all means use Role Manager instead.
As for “total DB redesign”, Role Scoper could not accomplish flexible content-specific role enforcement using the core WP database schema. It therefore adds 4 tables for its own use. You are free to manually drop those tables after deactivating Role Scoper. In terms of the database, Role Manager is actually more invasive because it stores role definitions right to the WP options table (which in turn causes WP to store role assignments to the usermeta table). In terms of code, yes Role Scoper invasive. It could not achieve its functionality without imposing lots of filters. Just decide whether you want/need that functionality.
am 19.02.2009 um 06:21 Uhr:
great.. i use wp 2.7.1.. after installing role manager, guess what? there’s no option or link at all to configure.
come on man.. this role manager is dead. nobody’s updating
am 19.02.2009 um 07:39 Uhr:
I use Wordpress 2.7.0 and everything is working fine, designroof.
Barack Obama is a blog about the president and this plugin has no problems in the version mentioned.
am 20.02.2009 um 18:44 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
I’m having an interesting problem with the plugin as of WP 2.7.1. I’m not sure if this was an existing issue beforehand, but a user just notified me that they were unable to view or use two particular plugins (Admin Msg Board and Our ToDo List). These plugins are accessible from the Tools page (tools.php). This user is in a brand new user group created using the Role Manager plugin. The option to “Use OurTodo” actually appears as an option in Role Manager, and it was checked for this new group.
In the process of troubleshooting, I had the idea to create another new group at level 10/with user options selected, just to see if I had missed checking an option that might affect access to the plugins. When I logged in as a member of this group, I was surprised to see that I still could not access both plugins. However, users in groups that were pre-existing (Administrator, Author, Editor, etc), CAN see and use both plugins just fine. So it appears that members of groups created with the Role Management plugin cannot access these two plugins.
Do you have any suggestions as to what I might try next? For now, I can add the users in the new group to an existing group, and simply keep a closer eye on them (the new group is not able to publish a post, while all other existing groups are), but any help or advice you could offer me on getting this resolved would be great. I absolutely love the plugin so far, it has come in very handy. Thank you very much!
am 21.02.2009 um 08:01 Uhr:
I hope I filled the comment stuff out correctly, I don’t speak German so I was guessing. I wanted to say congratulations on a fantastic plugin! I noticed one potential problem and a nuisance for me. If I want a user role to be able to edit users so they can for example moderate registrants but I don’t want them to be able to change the registrant’s role or limit them to being able to change a user to certain roles how would this be accomplished? I don’t understand the capabilities function. As it is I’m only making names for capabilities that don’t do anything. How does one create a capability that does something?
am 23.02.2009 um 02:17 Uhr:
i have 2.7.1 after i install the role manager, can anyone tell me where did it go? i cant seem to find it on my sidebar
am 23.02.2009 um 02:48 Uhr:
Where are the Role Names stored in the WP database?
am 23.02.2009 um 16:22 Uhr:
I have a major issue with a “blank ” capability and I can not find it - the wp-roles DB is where they keep the roles, but where are the capabilities… For the life of me I can not delete this “blank” capability and it is messing up the entire role manager and registration process… Passwords can’t be reset in the admin without unchecking the capability and it is buried perhaps in multiple places..? Thoughts anyone? Driving me nuts!!
am 23.02.2009 um 19:49 Uhr:
Gibt es beim Role Manager die Möglichkeit, das ich Rollen auf bestimmte Kategorien beschränken kann?
Ansonsten bin ich sehr begeistert, von den ganzen Möglichkeiten die Role Manager bietet, danke!
am 25.02.2009 um 14:52 Uhr:
Habs auch mal bei mir installiert, aber irgendwie klappt da nichts. Autor z.b. ist auf DENIED aber der kann trotzdem veröffentlichen. Wäre schön, wenn einer ne Alternative kennt.
am 01.03.2009 um 08:19 Uhr:
getting the following error- wp2.7.1, in the roles capabilities. Also getting an error when a member has 2 roles assigned.
Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\bigmikebetting.co.uk\httpdocs\wp-includes\capabilities.php on line 537
Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\bigmikebetting.co.uk\httpdocs\wp-includes\capabilities.php on line 539
Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\bigmikebetting.co.uk\httpdocs\wp-includes\capabilities.php on line 537
Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\bigmikebetting.co.uk\httpdocs\wp-includes\capabilities.php on line 537
am 12.03.2009 um 19:48 Uhr:
@nicole — My guess is it’s a problem with those other plugins. Perhaps it is checking for particular Roles rather than abilities? Thus your custom Roles are not coming up as able to use the plugin.
Probably best to contact the author of those other plugins.
am 14.03.2009 um 20:29 Uhr:
Role manager doesn’t seem to work with WP 2.7. Any plans to update to work with 2.7? Please.
am 14.03.2009 um 20:35 Uhr:
Nevermind. It does wotk with SP 2.7. The manner of plugin activition changed and took me a bit to figure out this change. Great extension which WP should adopt. Thank you.
am 16.03.2009 um 17:00 Uhr:
The plugin doesn’t appear to work under Wordpress 2.7.1. It does not appear in the sidebar menu at all.
am 16.03.2009 um 17:04 Uhr:
Ah I determined the problem. The folder was renamed by my unarchiver as role-manager-1. The -1 broke it.
am 17.03.2009 um 09:40 Uhr:
WordPress 2.9 will put user capabilities into its own table, will you update the plugin, when this happens?
am 20.03.2009 um 16:12 Uhr:
Hi, as 100s have said before me, thanks for the great plugin.
Sorry if you have answered this elsewhere in comments, I tried looking but after searching for over 15mins had to concede defeat. This is the biggest comment thread I’ve ever seen!
My question simply is: Is there a way to allocate the ability to edit style.css only? I want to give an editor access to edit css, but don’t want the to be able to see or edit the other files in my modified theme.
Thanks
am 23.03.2009 um 14:03 Uhr:
Thanks for the plugin. Works great.
am 23.03.2009 um 20:18 Uhr:
Is there an update for wordpress 2.7.1? i have an issue on adding tags (only admin can add tags) . Also when editing own profile as an author, the update button is not visible, but I can still update my profile by pressing Enter Key. Thanks
am 24.03.2009 um 08:00 Uhr:
hi thomas
after activating [then deactivating] Role Manager all users (of ANY role capability with the single exception of the original Admin user) when inserting an image into a post the code, linking to the full size image is stripped. i have spent several hours trying to troubleshoot this issue and think perhaps if i can remove all Role Manager changes perhaps this will resolve the issue. however i am unclear if deleting from wp-content/plugins will actually do this or if a table is added to database that i also need to remove.
i would so appreciate any help you can provide.
thanks much.
– joyce
WordPress-Version : 2.7
WordPress-Db-Version : 9872
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.03 (131587)
PHP-Version : 5.2.6
preg_replace : yes
Help-URI : http://www.camanoarts.org/dev/wp-admin/users.php?page=help.php
am 25.03.2009 um 21:38 Uhr:
Tanks for the plugin!
A suggestion, on the permission: Moderate Comments
Not to allow to exclude or to edit the comment, only to mark as spam or rejected.
Is it possible?
am 28.03.2009 um 16:00 Uhr:
Nice plugin. I’m using with WP 2.7.1 and Role Scoper.
am 30.03.2009 um 07:56 Uhr:
I’m having a little trouble with the plugin. I’m trying to enable the capabilities to add and delete users for the Contributor role. After I do so, when I log in, the User panel does not show up in the menu. Any clues as to how I can fix this?
am 30.03.2009 um 23:13 Uhr:
Thanks so much for this plugin! Are you still actively developing it?
am 01.04.2009 um 03:55 Uhr:
Great plugin! I am using it with Role Scoper to great effect, though unfortunately if I had more than 6 roles then the 7th does not appear in the Users –> Groups page nor as an option to restrict roles. Not sure if this is a problem with this plugin or that one, but I’ll play around with it some more.
Thanks for sharing this plugin!
am 06.04.2009 um 15:02 Uhr:
Hello! Thanks for your useful plugins! I try to explain my issue: i’d like some users to only moderate coments, without the possibility to edit others’ and published posts. So i created a new role with only “moderate comments” capability, but the user couldn’t reach the moderation page (”you don’t have permission” message). If i activate “edit posts”, “edit others’ posts” and “edit published posts” he can moderate comments… isn’t there a way to let someone moderate comments without being able to edit the authors’ posts?
am 07.04.2009 um 05:49 Uhr:
Hi,
Great plugin. I have a quick question. I am using a video theme for my blog. In order for the thumbnail of the video to display on the home page, the user has to add certain information in a custom field. The custom field option is no longer available to users. How do i turn it back on using role-manager?
Thank you
am 09.04.2009 um 20:44 Uhr:
Hi, I’m using WP 2.7.1 and I’m trying to be able to create capability in a plugin so that it shows in the Role Manager options. How do I do that with the code provided in a previous post? Where do I insert the “if” in the plugin? Can (’MY_CAPABILITY’) be two words such as (’Add Assignments’)?
Above it says: “The Custom Capabilities usage is:
1. create a capability name
2. on the code of your plugin put something like ” if ( ! current_user_can(’MY_CAPABILITY’) ) ” ”
Thanks for any help.
am 10.04.2009 um 01:16 Uhr:
Created capability “Add Assignment” and placed if ( ! current_user_can(’add_assignment’) ) in the plugin like so:
if ( ! current_user_can(’add_capability’) )
add_management_page(’Manage Assignments’, ‘aaa’, 8, ‘bbb’, array(’whatever’, ‘xxx_addoption’));
No change noticed. However the plugin link is dropped from the Tools menu when this is done:
if ( current_user_can(’add_assignment’) )
add_management_page(’Manage Assignments’, ‘aaa’, 8, ‘bbb’, array(’whatever’, ‘xxx_addoption’));
but in this case selecting or deselecting “Add Assignment” in the Role Manager has no noticeable change.
Any helpers?
am 11.04.2009 um 08:05 Uhr:
Getting some errors on wp2.7.1 PHP Version 5.2.8
In Manage Roles:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/site/public_html/members/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php on line 416
In Custom Capabilities:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/site/public_html/members/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php on line 416
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/site/public_html/members/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php on line 416
Fatal error: Call to a member function has_cap() on a non-object in /home/site/public_html/members/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/capability-management.php on line 261
am 19.04.2009 um 13:24 Uhr:
I use WP 2.6.3 and installed the Role Manager. For the Contributor Role, I enabled “moderate comments” but it does not work. When someone submits a comment on the blog, and I log in as a Contributor then I can see the comments waiting for moderation but I cannot select and approve them. There is no tick box next to each comment.
Also, are there any plans to make the Role Manager plugin workable in WordPress MU version?
Thomas, I see you last updated this feedback page on 18 Sep 2008. Does this mean the development of this plugin has been discontinued?
am 20.04.2009 um 21:51 Uhr:
Great plugin!
Thank you very much.
I just wanted to know if you had any documentation of what this plugin adds to the database. Options, tables, records of some sort?
am 28.04.2009 um 10:17 Uhr:
Hi, after activating wp plugin, when a non registered visitor comes to my site, he can’t view normal pages. This error comes up. After deactivating it, the error stays there. HELP!
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/vhosts/sicjunioryouthministry.ueuo.com/wp-includes/widgets.php:689) in /home/vhosts/sicjunioryouthministry.ueuo.com/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 850
am 29.04.2009 um 17:10 Uhr:
HELP!!! ONLY ADMIN CAN SEE MY PUBLISH PAGES!!!
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/vhosts/sicjunioryouthministry.ueuo.com/wp-includes/widgets.php:689) in /home/vhosts/sicjunioryouthministry.ueuo.com/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 850
WordPress-Version : 2.7.1
WordPress-Db-Version : 9872
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.03 (131587)
PHP-Version : 5.2.9
preg_replace : yes
Help-URI : http://sicjunioryouthministry.ueuo.com/wp-admin/users.php?page=help.php
am 03.05.2009 um 16:03 Uhr:
Does anyone know of an alternative? I’m not touching this without the author’s continued support and it’s very likely 2.8 or 2.9 will conflict with this and break my site badly.
am 03.05.2009 um 23:58 Uhr:
It’s an open source project hosted at Sourceforge.net so anyone can join and advance it. I’ve implemented it on my site (GoDaddy.com Linux) and local machine (XP Pro XAMPP - apache, mysql, php) and it works as expected. But yes, it would be nice to hear from Thomas sometimes.
am 10.05.2009 um 23:33 Uhr:
I’ve localized the problem described here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/176722?replies=4#post-1070328
“Moderate Comments” permission won’t work, unless you have “Edit others pages” enabled for the role. Would appreciate if this small bug could be fixed. Thanks - the plug-in itself is a great work!
John Williams
http://johnwilliams.eu
am 17.05.2009 um 05:30 Uhr:
am 20.05.2009 um 02:02 Uhr:
Are you going to support “Role Manager” in the future???
Please let us know.
am 26.05.2009 um 11:42 Uhr:
Works perfectly with my WP 2.71 installation. Thank you!
am 27.05.2009 um 17:03 Uhr:
Hi,
sehr schönes Plugin, habe es grade auf meinen Seiten getestet. Vielen Dank!
Was ich nicht verstehe: Man kann eine “spezielle” Berechtigung erzeugen, aber wie verknüpft man dann diese Berechtigung dann mit einer konkreten Funktion? Die neue Berechtigung steht zwar neu in der Liste, aber nichts passiert, wenn man diese aktiviert.
Bsp.: Ich möchte, dass ein “Editor” auf bestimmte Werkzeuge zugreifen kann wie der Admin…
Danke ochmals,
harald
am 30.05.2009 um 20:28 Uhr:
First I’d like to say thank you for your hard work and a great plugin.
Next I have what some people will consider to be a stupid question but I’m new to this so…. I’m setting up and admin account and limiting it’s privelages to posting and a few other things. There’s only one thing I’m not quite sure what it is and that’s “Read”.
Read what? can you explain this to me?
And thanks in advance for your time
am 01.06.2009 um 02:09 Uhr:
Very interesting plugin. I learnt about it from the Articless Directory. Thanks a lot. I find it easy to use and very interesting.
am 02.06.2009 um 13:37 Uhr:
I installed this plugin in my WP 2.5.1 setup. Contributers do not have the right to view a scheduled/published pages/posts. By this plugin I wanted to assign that permission.
I enabled : Edit Published Pages & Edit Published Posts Still Contributors are not able to do that. Please help.
am 08.06.2009 um 18:22 Uhr:
I have WP 2.7.1 and TDOM 0.13.1. I’m also using Role Manager 2.2.3. I created a form and assigned is to specific roles. When I login as a user with these specific roles I get the following error messages:
Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #2 is not an array in /home2/varinsig/public_html/wp-includes/capabilities.php on line 537
Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /home2/varinsig/public_html/wp-includes/capabilities.php on line 537
Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /home2/varinsig/public_html/wp-includes/capabilities.php on line 539
I’ve tried recreating the form, changing roles, everything I can think of. It works fine with unregisterd users.
Can you help?
Thanks
Jay
am 10.06.2009 um 14:23 Uhr:
Thank you for this plugin!
I am using WPMU 2.7.1 and RM 2.2.3.
Is there a way for a role, who has “Upload File” capabilities, to only see the files they have uploaded? I don’t want them to even see files that have been uploaded by others. When I went to the Media Library as this role, I was able to see other items that I had not uploaded. *I didn’t try to delete or view them.
Thanks.
Bill
am 10.06.2009 um 23:59 Uhr:
Hi Thomas, can it be use for wp 2.7.1 ?
am 22.06.2009 um 01:39 Uhr:
Hi Thomas - it would be fantastic if you would check this into the Wordpress Plugins subversion repository!
It seems that there already is a directory for it (http://svn.wp-plugins.org/role-manager/) but nothing in it.
Cheers!
am 23.06.2009 um 13:04 Uhr:
Hello Thomas,
Is it possible to rename a capability in the Role Management Table? I am not crazy about some of the terms that are used and would like to rename them. For example, Manage Category to Manage Topic. I suspect I would need to change all of the manage_category function calls too?
Thanks.
am 01.07.2009 um 22:25 Uhr:
thanks again for your wonderful application.
You’re the best!
am 05.07.2009 um 05:49 Uhr:
Top Site
Aber leider nicht das was ich gesucht habe Sorry
MfG
Sky
am 11.07.2009 um 04:59 Uhr:
I wish I could have roles that can forbids users from exporting and backup database from the wordpress blog. Is that any way to do it?
am 14.07.2009 um 21:46 Uhr:
Hi.
I messed up the roles on my site. I don’t know why the plugin won’t work on my site for me to fix it, but I would like to restore the roles back to the wordpress defaults.
I know that the plug in won’t support that, but I was wondering if you could tell me what php files it effects. Can I just copy the php files from another wordpress install that I have?
Thanks for any help you can give.
am 14.07.2009 um 21:51 Uhr:
Great. This pretty much fucked my entire website up. Is there a way to revert it all back or is it all permanent?
am 14.07.2009 um 22:21 Uhr:
Role manager is great. But I recently upgraded to the latest WP 2.8.1 and it stopped letting me email my users using the Email Users plugin. I tried to deactivate RoleMan. But somewhere settings will not deactivate. It tells me that I do not have permission when logged in as Admin.
Reactivated RM checked to make sure that Admin can email it said yes.
How do you create new capability? I can put in a name but how does it know what you are supposed to do with that name?
Please Advise. Thank You for this plugin.
Rolle Manager ist groß. Aber ich vor kurzem ein Upgrade auf die neueste WP 2.8.1 und es gestoppt Vermietung mir meine E-Mail-Anwender, die die E-Mail-Nutzer Plugin. Ich habe versucht zu deaktivieren RoleMan. Aber irgendwo Einstellungen nicht deaktivieren. Es sagt mir, dass ich nicht die Erlaubnis haben, wenn als Admin eingeloggt.
Reaktiviert RM überprüft, um sicherzustellen, dass E-Mail-Admin kann sie sagte ja.
Wie kann man neue Fähigkeiten? Ich kann in einen Namen, aber wie funktioniert es genau wissen, was Sie zu tun mit diesem Namen?
Bitte Beratung. Vielen Dank für dieses Plugin.
translate.google.com
am 17.07.2009 um 08:32 Uhr:
Hi
Great work…
One doubt: I did not understand how “creation of new capabilities” work. For example I wanted to add a new capability “Append to post” which lets you to add a new post, but in effect it will be appended to the original post of the user as an Update to the old post (at the bottom of the old post, with a heading update). That is the the user won’t be editing his old post. But appending to it…
Any help will be appreciated.
Thank you
am 18.07.2009 um 02:01 Uhr:
Hi,
Does not work in wp v2.8.1
Thought I’d let you know there are lots of bug with this plugin in v 2.8.1. One of my blogs no longer shows the plugin anymore even when activated after an upgrade to latest wordpress.
meg
Was a cool plugin by the way, shame things don’t work anymore
I’ll use it again in the future when you get time to look at the code though!
am 26.07.2009 um 09:51 Uhr:
hello,
i found role manager very complete and easy to understand.
But it is possible “contributor” can read only their own post and not the post of other author (future, published …) on the admin panel ?
thank you
am 30.07.2009 um 00:37 Uhr:
This DOES WORK in v2.8.2. I had:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /public_html/wp-includes/kses.php(413) : runtime-created function on line 1
…when trying to install this plugin. I coulnd’t get my Plugins page to load in the Admin Screen. None of the suggestions at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/194370 (1.Create a file called php.ini in the root of your site (if you are using a hosted addon domain, this must be in the subdirectory of that site)
2.In php.ini, enter a line that says
memory_limit = 64MB
3.In your site’s .htaccess (being a Wordpress blog, I’m assuming there is one), enter the following line
SetEnv PHPRC //
(keep the slashes)
4.Edit wp-config.php and enter the following line
define(’WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘64M’);)
… worked for me.
!!! The solution was to uninstall IWG Hide Dashboard, then disable & delete many unnecessary statistic & admin plugins from my Plugins directory. I then reinstalled Role Manager without any problems. I then reinstalled plugins again without any memory errors.
Email me at paulturk@paulturk.ca if you need more info from me.
am 07.08.2009 um 01:44 Uhr:
Use the Wordpress.com Stats plugin and I can not create a valid capabilities in Role Manager. The intention is to block access to the “Blog Stats” on the dashboard.
could you help me?
am 07.08.2009 um 20:14 Uhr:
Thanks for this, I’ve been using it to remove and create new roles and protect clients from there own shenanigans. I included it in a recent blog post of mine, 10 Perfect Plugins for Building a WordPress CMS.
I hope this bad boy gets included in the WordPress core some day. Keep up the great work Thomas!
am 11.08.2009 um 20:42 Uhr:
Hi!
I have several Plugins installed and the preferences of these plugins are available in the options menu on the left side of the dashboard when I’m logged in as an admin. When I log in with another user who has author rights, the preferences of the plugins are not visible on the left side in my dashboard. How can I allow authors to see the preferences of the plugins?
I installed the role manager plugin and the user group “author” has all available rights (same rights like an admin) but still then they can’t see the preferences. Only user with original administrator rights can see the additional plugin preferences in the option part of the left-side dashboard menu…
am 22.08.2009 um 05:05 Uhr:
I installed this at my website, mrbrammer.com and now I am getting an error message “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” whenever I try to view the “installed” plugins page. In fact, the link to installed plugins isn’t even there anymore. Please help!
am 25.08.2009 um 19:20 Uhr:
Hello! I found your excellent plugin and everything works well, except that you can not make access to some plug-ins. For example plug-in “Redirection” http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/. I hired a freelancer to ensure that he corrected my old links to your blog. The role of the administrator, I do not want to provide for security reasons. Assigned him the role of editor. When you view the settings of its role can be seen only a few plug-ins and plug-Redirection among them there, unfortunately. What can you advise me to do?
I apologize for my bad English:)
am 26.08.2009 um 16:28 Uhr:
Thanks for the great plugin! I found it while I was reading “WordPress 2.7 Complete”. I am wondering if I would be able to add one “Capability”. I am looking to disable the “HTML” editor from some Roles when they are creating a post, is this possible? Thanks again!
am 31.08.2009 um 13:52 Uhr:
Hi!
Thanks for this beautiful plugin!
How can I show user role name on post and comments?
am 01.09.2009 um 19:37 Uhr:
Looks like Thomas is away and not maintaining this plugin. The latest comments are reason enough for me to keep away from it until he makes a stable release for 2.8.4, which is the current version as I write.
I see that Paul (comment #645) managed to make it work, but I can’t afford to run tests on my production site…
Looks like this was the best alternative for role administration, but not anymore.
am 06.09.2009 um 14:06 Uhr:
it doesn’t work with wp 2.8
am 07.09.2009 um 23:59 Uhr:
Hi there, is there a way i can set ujp so taht the user can only post under one page? i dont want the user to be able to edit seperate pages, only hte ones i assign him or her too…is this possible? and also the same thing for posting ability, i only want the user to be able to post under certain pages/categories.,..
ps great plug
am 10.09.2009 um 20:09 Uhr:
Hello,
Will your role manager plugin enable me to allow users to upload images to their posts? At present only Admin can do this.
am 27.09.2009 um 06:17 Uhr:
This is a great plugin, I’m surprised it works with 2.8.4
am 28.09.2009 um 11:46 Uhr:
Hi
a great plugin, thank you very much for all the hard work.
I seem to have a problem though: I installed it on WP 2.8.4, it works.
However, for some reason, my rights to edit plugins as admin are limited: the plugins compatible with 2.8.4 get installed, yet the “Settings” function doesn’t appear on the dashboard.
If I deactivate or even delete the Role Manager, the roles and capabilities created with the plugin remain unchanged.
Where is this info stored and how can it be rolled back to the initial settings?
Thank you.
am 01.10.2009 um 17:19 Uhr:
Hi, i have a problem with “user-messages” plugin. For new created role a give permissions to write public message. The link in dashboard “write” is visible, but clicked gives “permission denied”, also there is no link in meniu for new message, only “messages”.
am 08.10.2009 um 22:30 Uhr:
Thanks for this awesome plugin. It works on wordpress 2.8.4 on my blog
am 14.10.2009 um 10:14 Uhr:
Hi! I’m wondering if it is possible to add new options to the wonderfull Rola Manager Plugin. For Example: Can I assign the role “Editor” to access to a certain plugin (let’s say a Banner Manager Plugin? This would be very nice for a Wordpress installation with multiple Editors. Thanks in advance for your Time! Dirk
am 14.10.2009 um 15:50 Uhr:
Great plugin. Thanks. Hope it will work good with php exec
am 18.10.2009 um 08:50 Uhr:
good plugin
am 22.10.2009 um 09:30 Uhr:
Hi Wallace and all others users,
Does anyone has experience with these two alternatives:
1. the ‘members’ plugin by Justin Tadlock (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/) But it seems there is no support concerning ‘1 user can edit 1 page’. I believe this is essential to make a cms.
2. the ‘role scoper’: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/role-scoper/
I am testing them but it is rather confusing..
Thanks,
Diederik
am 30.10.2009 um 13:56 Uhr:
güzel olmuş.
am 03.11.2009 um 16:30 Uhr:
Great plugin, but I can’t find a way to “reset to defaults” roles&capabilities. Suppose you have played a lot with roles and capabilities and you don’t remember how to rollback to normal situation or a new version of WP comes out and changes something about roles and capabilities so you have to go back to defaults before updating. Wouldn’t it be useful to implement this functionality?
thanks for your plugin anyway.
am 04.11.2009 um 06:09 Uhr:
Is this plugin gettin supported anymore? I see lots of questions and no answers.
As we get close to 2.9 and the issue of the user capability table change, it makes this a risk for anyone investing in this plugin.
As to the plugin itself can someone explain how to create a new capability as in controlling access to the Role Manager itself?
am 08.11.2009 um 16:36 Uhr:
Hi Thomas and everybody, is this plugin working with Version 2.8.5 and higher? I would appreciate an information. Thanks a lot.
am 09.11.2009 um 08:40 Uhr:
@Elke Anisha
I’m using it on WP 2.8.5 to enable user editing capabilities fot Editors and it works perfectly.
Bye
am 17.11.2009 um 16:18 Uhr:
Thomas,
is it possible to use this plugin in wordpress mu, if yes I would assume I can put it in mu-plugins rather then plugins?
Thanks for a great plugin.
Tony V
am 30.11.2009 um 13:41 Uhr:
It’s possible either that I’m misreading the docs or misunderstanding how RM works: if not then please consider this a wishlist item.
I need to be able to delegate role permissions downward in a granular fashion: thus for example I might need to create a new role called Manager which has all the capabilities of an Editor, but is also allowed to create/edit/delete other users.
In principle this works fine; one can indeed create such a role with these permissions. Except that such a “manager” role should NOT be able to edit the role capabilities of administrators or other roles which have a higher role than itself: the new role should only be able to edit [or delegate] sideways or downwards. So a manager could create/edit/delete another manager, or a role with a lesser scope than itself, but can never edit/delete a higher role.
Is this possible?
RN
am 01.12.2009 um 23:08 Uhr:
When I disable this plugin, and then re-enable, I get this msg:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare rolemanager_plugin_activate() (previously declared in /Users/tlee/Sites/getmarried.com/wedding-blog/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php:658) in /Users/tlee/Sites/getmarried.com/wedding-blog/wp-content/plugins/role-manager/role-manager.php on line 696
Also, (I’m pretty sure this is related to this plugin), since I’ve installed this plugin, when I go to Users (/wp-admin/users.php), the page won’t load.
I’m on WP 2.8.6
am 02.12.2009 um 22:02 Uhr:
I’m trying to solve a problem that I believe is related to this plugin. I have a site using WP 2.8.6 running on 4 environments, local, dev, test, and production. Local runs fine. The others are having issues displaying the Authors & Users page, and the visual editor. The only difference between the two environments is the MySQL version. My local box is running 5.1.37, while the other environemtns are running 5.0.82 and 5.0.45.
Is there any known issues with this plugin and versions of MySQL earlier than 5.1? Also, even when I deactivate this plugin, I still have the same issues. Is there any way to scrub the effects of this plugin from my data once it’s been activated/deactivated?
Please help - I’m pulling my hair out!
Thanks in advance.
am 07.12.2009 um 23:34 Uhr:
I have made so statics pages , I want to desactivate only delete pages
what is the options , I v tested some but dont find !!!
Delete Others Pages ?
Delete Private Pages ?
Delete Pages ?
Delete Published Pages ?
Please help me …
Best regards, very good plugin !
am 10.12.2009 um 00:38 Uhr:
Thomas, ich hab zu testzwecken einige rollen vergeben und so …
unter anderem einem meiner admins die fähigkeit entzogen, pages zu editieren.
In seinem Profil kann er lesen:
Additional Capabilities Denied: edit_pages
ich kann das nicht rückgängig machen. Wenn ich draufklicke und dann auf save changes clicke, krieg ich folgende fehlermeldung
A valid capability name can only have letters, digits and spaces. Try Role Managers “Spaces allowed in Capabilities” option.
Ich kann den user (also keinen) mehr abspeichern.
am 11.12.2009 um 10:28 Uhr:
First of all thnx for wonderful plugin it really helped me a lot in my project development. Nevertheless I have question regarding users’ dashboard: let’s say I have custom role and I would like exclude SETTINGS tab from their dashboard.Is it possible? Thnx in advance!
am 13.12.2009 um 05:49 Uhr:
Is it possible to use the capability function of this plugin, to be used in plugin development? and How?
am 15.12.2009 um 20:27 Uhr:
I have created several capabilities which I am trying to utilize. When I entered the names, they were formatted like “XYZ Foo Bar”, but they appear as “Xyz Foo Bar” in the role manager.
I’ve assigned these to roles and am trying to utilize current_user_can(”Xyz Foo Bar”), but it always returns false. What is the correct naming of “Xyz Foo Bar” to utilize in current_user_can()? Is it “xyz_foo_bar” or “Xyz Foo Bar” or “XYZ Foo Bar”?
am 16.12.2009 um 21:19 Uhr:
To answer my own question, the capabilities are named “xyz_foo_bar”.
am 20.12.2009 um 03:12 Uhr:
WordPress Developers Challenge for role management.
am 28.12.2009 um 19:03 Uhr:
Well English has a capital E … “You can help me to improve my english - feel free to give me your feedback in this case.”
Thanks for a great plug-in.
am 02.01.2010 um 20:09 Uhr:
have this plugin installed on a test site I’m developing, and I’m working on an admin tool that allows an admin user to create a new user and an associated page for that user, but I need to set the user to a particular role that I’ve created using this role manager plugin.
What’s the simplest way to do this? I think I figured out the array that is put in the meta data for a user, so I could create the array manually, but I’d need to create the role first, and then find out the ID it’s been assigned, so that I can hardcode the role ID in my PHP code. Surely there’s a better way though?
Ideally I’d be able to just set it to a text string, like “Clients”, or alternatively look up the id of the “Clients” role and then set it for the user.
Any help would be appreciated.
am 06.01.2010 um 23:17 Uhr:
How does one use a custom capability in plugin development?
am 10.01.2010 um 02:15 Uhr:
Hi is your Role Manager Plugin compatible with WordPress 2.9
Thanks
Edward
am 10.01.2010 um 02:17 Uhr:
Hi is your Role Manage Plugin compatible with WordPress 2.9
Thanks
Edward
am 21.01.2010 um 04:44 Uhr:
Is this plugin still being developed ? Is it compatible with 2.9.1 ? How is it compared to role scoper plugin ?
am 06.02.2010 um 11:21 Uhr:
Hallo ich habe den Role Manager installiert und finde die Sache einfach Super.
Ich möchte das der Benutzer “xy” nun jedoch im admin
nur die von ihm erstellten Seiten bearbeiten (funktioniert) und sehen kann.
Bis anhin sieht er auch die Seiten der anderen Benutzer
Besten Dank fürs weiter Helfen….
am 10.02.2010 um 14:30 Uhr:
Viele Grüße aus dem verschneiten Greetsiel
am 14.02.2010 um 17:58 Uhr:
Hallo Thomas erstmal super Plugin. Aber dennoch vermisse ich eine Option oder ich hab sie einfach nur nicht gefunden. Und zwar vermisse ich die Option das z.b. Autoren nur eigene Beiträge sehen (im Backend -> Artikel bearbeiten-Ansicht) denn auf einen meiner Blogs möchte ich nicht das Autoren z.B. sehen von wem der Artikel stammt. Denn im Frontend selbst schreiben bei mir alle Autoren anonym, was natürlich nicht viel bringt wenn man im Backend sieht vom welchen Autor der Artikel stammt. Ansonsten wie gesagt super Plugin.
am 15.02.2010 um 11:05 Uhr:
Hello Thomas,
I agree this is an awesome plugin, and I hate to “look a gift horse in the mouth,” but I was wondering if there is a known way to get your plug to work with the WPVN Username changer? It allows users to change their username, which I really need.
It makes you cheese a minimum role-level to be able to change username, but it only has the default roles, not the advnaced ones from your plugin.
I know the problem is on their end, but I was wondering if you happened to know of a good fix?
Thank you,
Markus
WordPress-Version : 2.9.1
WordPress-Db-Version : 12329
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.03 (131587)
PHP-Version : 5.2.4
preg_replace : yes
Help-URI : http://wphr.org/wp-admin/users.php?page=help.php
am 19.02.2010 um 10:40 Uhr:
Hi! Danke erstmal für das Plugin!
Aber geht es wirklich unter 2.9.1 bzw 2.9.2? Oder macht es dann Probleme mit anderen Plugins?
Gruß, Maggy
am 23.02.2010 um 19:18 Uhr:
Doesn’t work with WP 2.9.2
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_current_user() in \wp-includes\capabilities.php on line 969
Please fix!
am 27.02.2010 um 06:10 Uhr:
Good job with this plugin, easy to use, works great, thanks.
am 02.03.2010 um 01:11 Uhr:
ok i created a new role but i want that role to be able to see the users BUT NOT change their roles. i unmarked the manage roles to red but they are still able to change the roles via users page.
again i just want them to be able to see the users but not change roles
and yes i have changed the ( manage roles ) to red X
thanks
am 09.03.2010 um 23:14 Uhr:
Wird es eine neue Version vom RoleManager für WP 2.9x oder evt. bald 3.0 geben, oder ist mit neuen Versionen nicht mehr zu rechnen?
am 12.03.2010 um 12:12 Uhr:
hallo! im dashboard kann ich als admin seiten erstellen und der seite einen autor zuweisen. als autor kann ich aber diese seite dann nicht bearbeiten, weil autoren nur posts bearbeiten dürfen/können!
ich hab rolemanager installiert und versucht dem autor edit_private_pages zuzuweisen, aber damit kann er ebenfalls seine seiten nicht bearbeiten!
wie kann ich das im rolemanager machen, damit autoren ihre eigenen seiten bearbeiten können?
am 15.03.2010 um 08:48 Uhr:
Hi Thomas
Thank you very much for the powerful plugin. I changed the role manager to add the “hide dashboard” capability and it works wonderful.
I want to create a capability to “view all media in library” from the backend
If this capability is on I want the signed in user to be able to view all media in library
If this capability is off I want the signed in user to be able to only view the media that the signed in user uploaded
Could you please tell me where I should start do do this. I have some PHP knowledge, I just dont know where to start to build this “filter”
Regards
Tom Masters
pantoeflou@yahoo.com
am 15.03.2010 um 09:25 Uhr:
@Tom
Great add-on. Could you please link your version somewhere?
Thank you very much!
am 16.03.2010 um 21:17 Uhr:
Hello,
1. I have error in permissions :/ User when click edit posts (have one in draft) is redirect to front page of blog http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiedoruk/4439031270/sizes/o/ on fresh WP install it is ok :/
2. How can I unistall plugin and restore the default groups ??? Disable give nothing because of the original groups remain and I have no more: /
PLEASE HELP
WordPress-Version : 2.9.2
WordPress-Db-Version : 12329
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.03 (131587)
PHP-Version : 5.2.6
preg_replace : yes
am 19.03.2010 um 11:22 Uhr:
The plugin is working fine to allow people to add images to the gallery - so that bit is great - thanks!
The problem I get is when logged into the Dashboard and try to use the Settings link in the NextGEN Public Uploader - I get the following error on the page -
URL: http://wesiteaddress.co.uk/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=nextgen-public-uploader
Page Test: Cannot load nextgen-public-uploader.
I am using wordpress 2.9.2
Please advise??
Thanks
Deb
am 31.03.2010 um 00:37 Uhr:
Hi
Thanks for this great plugin.
I have tried many other role scoper / role restriction plugins and none of them worked.
Your plugin does work with Wordpress 2.9.2 however, I have not tested all the capabilities / compatiblities with other plugins etc… I simply wanted to restrict users to be able to approve / disapprove comments and to write blog posts. Everything else is disabled for the client and that works great. It works for that.
I have yet to try with the dashboard editor but that5 would be a great tool….
It would seem that this great plugin needs some development to bring it back up to speed and in line with recent WP developments. Has it gone the way of Monty Python’s Norwegian Parrot - that is to say is it dead or perhaps….. just sleeping (for the unitiated… here’s that sketch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218)
Thanks again for your hard work.
Sol
Or maybe the author would be kind enough to correct me
am 13.04.2010 um 20:02 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
I’m using your plugin to give specific user(s) permissions to my plugin!
It seems to work ok with 2.9.1 and 2.9.2 but I’m not using it to it’s fullest potential (yet!).
Many thanks,
Paul.
am 18.04.2010 um 00:31 Uhr:
Hallo Thomas,
kannst Du mit möglichst wenig Aufwand umreißen, wie ich im Bereich “Berechtigungen” eine neue Berechtigung anlege (bzw. wo ich ihre Funktion dann beschreibe)? Oder vielleicht gibt es eine solche Beschreibung auch längst, und ich bin nur zu blöde, sie zu finden?!
Vielen Dank,
Börnsen
am 24.04.2010 um 23:07 Uhr:
Thanks for the great plug-in Thomas.
It would be nice that the roles that can manage users. Are only able to manage and see the users with the same or lower user level. This way you can have a cms for a client whilst not being able to damage things too bad. This way the admin can always jump in and change things.
am 07.05.2010 um 07:35 Uhr:
awesome plugin, very very useful! now I just wish all plugins would define their own custom capabilities so we can really do what we need
thanks
am 10.05.2010 um 21:11 Uhr:
Great plugin. I realy want to thank you.
How can I donate some money?
am 11.05.2010 um 19:08 Uhr:
how do you grant permission for “editors” to manage the media? I cannot find this anywhere. I would like “editors” to be almost admins without modifying system settings/options, but still manage (add, delete, attach) media to pages/posts.
am 11.05.2010 um 23:12 Uhr:
hi, how can I change the language?????
am 14.05.2010 um 00:14 Uhr:
Hi Thomas, ich benutze das Plugin schon seit Jahren und bin immer sehr zufrieden damit gewesen. Leider habe ich festgestellt, dass es mit WP 3.0 Trunk (von heute) nicht funktioniert.
Gibt’s Pläne von dir, dass Plugin kompatibel mit WP 3.0 zu machen?
am 23.05.2010 um 12:42 Uhr:
Looking at the date of the last post to the website, I hope nothing has happened to Mr. Schneider.
I was directed here from an installed plug-in on my website after failing to find it on the official downloads site as available through my website interface.
I did not read instructions closely before downloading, installing, and enabling this plug-in: Role Manager V2.2.3.
When I read of other peoples problems and a table move I was confedent failure was imminemt upon my next tries to operate the website. Checking first on the public side I was amused by Tweetmeme buttons from stories not on that page that had replaced my Amazon and Google ads. Every page refresh brought a different set of buttons but ended on changing to the next page. The public pages were appearing to work normal so I verntured to the admin pages which all seemed to work for the admin using Fifefox3.x. From the Role Manage page I could see everything including the roles from that other role editor which did not function for me. I proceeded to delete everything I created in the role editor and uninstalled it. I created a new role through the Role Manager interface my coping an existing role and modifing it. I could assign an existing draft to a new user created for my test and publish the story as I was hoping. I noticed too that the Role Manager was able to pick up Role Specific Options from other plug-ins and properly manipulate them as well.
I wondered… Things are repeatable! I also happened to be logged into the website with SeaMonkey under a contributor level role. If I refreshed a page, random Tweetmeme buttons tagged to other pages replaced the Amazon Ads and the Google sidebar widget (but not the headerbar ad). Calling the page anew or a different one both returned a correct page. Odd. I went on and changed the role for the user of the SeaMonkey log-on and could continue on in this new role correctly (?). Maybe I can remove some items like Custom Fields from user’s new post interfaces that would be great.
It seems like this plug-in is working on my installation. Now to check for holes….
So I guess it is time to say thank you to Mr. Thomas Schneider for his plug-in, even if he is no-long amongst us.
am 18.06.2010 um 03:07 Uhr:
With the release of Wordpress 3.0 any plans of updating this plug-in to work with “custom post types”? If not, is there any plug-ins that’s similar that addresses restricting by role who can edit/add/view/etc… post types?
Thanks!
am 06.07.2010 um 11:02 Uhr:
Hello,
A small bug in the French translation (plugins/role-manager/languages/role-manager-fr_FR.po) :
#: ../role-management.php:458
msgid “This page is for editing […]
msgstr “Cette page permet […]. You pouvez […]
One should read “Vous pouvez”
Thanks for this excellent plugin.
am 07.07.2010 um 21:32 Uhr:
Does this version of ROle Manager work with Word Press 3.0?
am 15.07.2010 um 04:54 Uhr:
Hi
I am trying to assign rights to a user, so that they can create and edit pages, but they must not be able to publish. So far so good. But I then need that user to be able to edit a PUBLISHED page, and have that page become “pending approval” again.
I cannot see how to do this. Please can you help?
Thanks
Philip
am 27.07.2010 um 21:34 Uhr:
Will this plugin work with version 3.0?
The Reglevel plug strongly suggested installing this plugin. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/reglevel/faq/
Thank you!
am 02.08.2010 um 18:10 Uhr:
Hi, my name is Brenda and I want to traduce this plugin in spanish I want to know what is the file that I have to modified. Thanks a lot.
am 10.08.2010 um 01:28 Uhr:
I am using with wordpress 3.0.1
It all works great - just one small issue with next gen gallery, but if you click on”allow spaces” in options for role manaer, the issue is solved.
Thanks for a great plugin.
Would be nice to see it updated - so that it is still current.
However, I hear that Wordpress 3.2 will feature extensive role customisation.
Cheers
Sol
am 12.08.2010 um 16:18 Uhr:
Guten Tag,
funktioniert das Plugin einwandfrei mit WordPress 3.0.1?
am 19.08.2010 um 14:38 Uhr:
When copying or assigning roles that include “Delete Published Nav Menu Item” in Wordpress 3.01 the message “Capability name to short or to long” appears. This role also cannot be toggled on from Users > Roles. The error code is 2100. This is a default Role.
WordPress-Version : 3.0.1
WordPress-Db-Version : 15477
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.03 (131587)
PHP-Version : 5.2.14
preg_replace : yes
am 23.08.2010 um 08:04 Uhr:
Hi, I currently have a problem, that when users sign up, they are a “contributor”, and when they go to add posts, they can publish them, but once they publish them, they are NOT able to go back and make changes or edit it. Will role manager fix this? and allow them to edit their own posts?
THANKS
am 30.08.2010 um 19:45 Uhr:
Hello, i have this issue: i just login from several months i didn’t, and with my administrator account can’t see the users from my page. When i look into roles the “edit users” and “manage roles” are IN BLUE (not red or green). So i can’t do nothing with them, for example, list the users, delete the spam users, etc.change roles, etc.
I have this version:
Use this information if you have any problems or questions with the “Role Manager” at the “Role Manager Plugin Homepage”.
WordPress-Version : 3.0.1
WordPress-Db-Version : 15477
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.03 (131587)
PHP-Version : 5.1.2
preg_replace : yes
Help-URI : http://www.diegocosta.com.ar/wp-admin/users.php?page=help.php
All the help i can get is welcome.
Best regards
am 27.09.2010 um 03:25 Uhr:
I hope you can help. I enjoy this plugin, but I’m unable to create a new role. Regardless of how I name the role, whether creating a new role or copying an existing one, I always get this error: “Capability name to short or to long”.
WordPress-Version : 3.0.1
WordPress-Db-Version : 15477
Role-Manager-Version : 02.02.03 (131587)
PHP-Version : 5.2.14
preg_replace : yes
Help-URI : http://www.tamemind.org/wp-admin/users.php?page=help.php
am 28.09.2010 um 19:00 Uhr:
Hi! I have deactivated and deleted the plugin but “Additional Capabilities” remains at the bottom of user profile page.
How can I delete that?
Thanks!
am 01.10.2010 um 08:23 Uhr:
Apparently I’ve learned through a few other Internet posts (such as, http://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-manager-and-wordpress-28-is-plugin-now-obsolete) that this plugin is no longer being supported or developed and is increasingly becoming buggier with each new version of WordPress. Which would explain the problem I’m having as well as the developer not responding.
I’ve found a good replacement plugin called User Role Editor (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-manager-and-wordpress-28-is-plugin-now-obsolete).
am 01.10.2010 um 15:26 Uhr:
I use Flutter for custom fields and have a custom Write Panel called “My Best Shot” that I want to assign to Contributors, so that they have access to that write panel only and not to any other write panel. According to Flutter the Role Manager plugin can do that. Can you please tell me how? Many thanks!
am 18.10.2010 um 15:56 Uhr:
Is there a platform or Wordpress plugin that lets you customize exactly which users/subscribers have access to each page of content?…
This one might help
http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wordpress-plugins/role-manager/
Otherwise you could search here.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/…
am 21.10.2010 um 18:01 Uhr:
Nice plugin. Since I have got a number of multi-author blog, this is going to be useful for me.
am 28.10.2010 um 18:32 Uhr:
The plugin does not work when the WordPress admin is using HTTPS but the site is using HTTP. In WordPress 3.0 and above, you can use “admin_url()” instead of “get_settings(’siteurl’) . ‘/wp-admin/’” to fix the problem. Other than that, nice plugin.
am 10.12.2010 um 16:51 Uhr:
Just a quick thanks for such a useful plugin!
am 15.12.2010 um 01:27 Uhr:
Hi Moshe and Thomas,
I love the Role Manager plugin features, but can’t seem to get it to work with WP version 3.0.1–even with Moshe’s fix? I tried adding “admin_url()” to the PHP files, but it still doesn’t work? Please HELP..Anybody!
ps. Thomas, any chance you can update this plugin and make it WP 3.0+ compatible?
Thank you!!
am 20.12.2010 um 19:50 Uhr:
Hello,
I am using Role Manager, and I have a directory. I was wondering how is it possible to display the role in my array? I am using members list, and I would like to show
Name, Title, and Role.
I have not seen anywhere that shows how to do this in wordpress, please help.
Aaron
am 19.04.2011 um 15:32 Uhr:
Terrible plugin, don’t install it, it will f*ck up your entire role system.
am 04.05.2011 um 17:14 Uhr:
I’m trying to use this plugin to enable php edit for admin users in my wordpress site.
I’ve uploaded and enabled fine. However, now that your plugin is enabled, I’ve found that I cannot update a password for a user. I get this error message.
“A valid capability name can only have letters, digits and spaces. Try Role Managers “Spaces allowed in Capabilities” option.”
I don’t see where this option is.
Any help here would be appreciated.
am 05.05.2011 um 19:00 Uhr:
Ein Freund von mir hat ein ähnliches Problem wie Diane und ich habe ihm versprochen bei der Lösung zu helfen. Deswegen wäre ich auch sehr gespannt über eine Antwort zu Diane´s Beitrag. Wenn ich bis dahin was gefunden habe lasse ich es euch wissen.
Greets
Paul
am 24.05.2011 um 13:54 Uhr:
Hi, i’m using wordpress theme which had extra feature menu for taking care of some picture slider.. can this plugin also can giving choise to some user have access to this feature or not.. thx u.
am 21.07.2011 um 22:15 Uhr:
Great plugin thank you very much
am 10.08.2011 um 00:17 Uhr:
Hello there,
It´s is a great plugin! Thanks.
But I have a probleam. Qhen I creat a Editor Use he can create an Admin user. Do you know How I can configure the that?
Hughes from Brasil!
Everaldo
am 20.08.2011 um 14:27 Uhr:
I’m definitely going to try this plugin. Is this plugin the only way to define roles with different capabilities on WordPress?
am 25.08.2011 um 12:12 Uhr:
Jason - look at Advanced Access Manager
am 27.08.2011 um 05:43 Uhr:
This is one of tne best plugins ever. Even my kid brother starting with blogging knows about this plugin.
am 06.09.2011 um 00:13 Uhr:
This is a very good plugin. Works real well for large blogs that need more than 1 person to manage them.
Thanks
am 09.09.2011 um 12:31 Uhr:
Hi there is a bug in the current version as you are using get-settings() function which was depreciated in wp v2.1
Please update the code with the following…
$this->manage_help_uri=get_option('siteurl','').'/wp-admin/'.$path_file.'?page=' . $this->file_basename;
am 14.10.2011 um 04:25 Uhr:
Does role manager let you specify what categories a user can edit. For example, can you give a contributor access to a specific category to edit all of the posts within that category? If so, how is this accomplished.
I would like to grant contributor access to a writer that can edit other contributor’s posts.
Thank you for your feedback.
am 18.11.2011 um 20:28 Uhr:
I am getting this error , sudenly, how can i fix it? I cannot afford to reinstall the plugin since i dont want to lose data belonging to 54 authors, new authors are getting this error
You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page
Please let me know how to fix it?
am 22.11.2011 um 10:00 Uhr:
Hello,
I would like to know if it is possible to manage role with the plugin leagueManager to make a user linked to a team, and so i can only add score of his team.
Thanks
am 23.11.2011 um 04:28 Uhr:
Hi Thomas,
From the looks of the date of your last post i doubt i will get a response from you. But i am hoping someone else out there might have a solution for me
First of all this plugin is great and works very well for multiple author websites like mine.
I have a blog with multiple authors and contributors but what i want is to stop them from receiving an email every time a comment is made/approved on their post. We prefer to have the admins inform the writers when a post specific comment has been made.
Do you or anyone know of such a plugin or code i can use to stop WordPress sending emails to my authors and contributors?
Cheers
Robin
am 28.11.2011 um 06:18 Uhr:
Hi, I just cannot find the log-in access on the blog after I installed role manager. Of course, the sign-up page also cannot be found when the admin select “all can sign up”.
am 07.02.2012 um 21:16 Uhr:
Hi Thomas!
Have any way to fully uninstall your plugin (with default user roles)?
I try uninstall and delete the plugin files, but the the problem is that even when the plugin was removed, still work user roles that were assigned with the role manager plugin.
am 30.03.2012 um 16:23 Uhr:
Once upon a time watching this plugin, it was not bad, but now it seems out of date - the files in the archive have not been updated since 2008 and it is written in the file role-manager.php “Max WP Version: 2.6″, but now using the new WordPress 3.3.1.
am 03.04.2012 um 18:04 Uhr:
Guten tag,
I need two roles :
- Publish : he’s reading contibution and publish if ok
- Contributor : Create or edit pages
How to make contributor to edit published page but send it the publisher to before publishing?
Danke,
Alain
am 17.04.2012 um 10:07 Uhr:
We are also looking for working roles-manager in wordpress 3.3.1. Is there somebody who can help as?
Grüße, Danke
Frank
am 02.05.2012 um 08:28 Uhr:
Dear Thomas,
I am very glad to use this plugin. Its such an amazing plugins for a role of an author. Its very helpful to every blogger. And I am a tech blogger. Its necessary for me. I would like to thank to you once again.
Cheers up!
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