How to give guest users access to certain parts of the wordpress dashboard

  • stephunique

    (@stephunique)


    3 weeks, 3 days ago

    I have searched a lot of options and none resolve my issue.

    I want to allow people to sign up and give them access to certain parts of the dashboard, specifically certain plugins, AND the ability to create, edit and publish their own posts. This is because the plugins I want to give them access to is located in the dashboard side menu and the plugin lets you create content and display that content via a short code on posts (and pages, but I don’t want to give them access to pages). So these users must be able to have access to both in order to make a post, else there would nothing to display in their post.

    I have tried “Adminimize”, “Hide Admin Menu”, and “PublishPress Capabilities” and “PublishPress Permissions” to grant a user role the ability to see this plugin, and none of them were able to show this plugin in the dashboard of a test user who I have allocated this specific user role.

    So now I am trying to find other ways to grant users the ability to access a specific plugin in the dashboard. I am not a developer so a straightforward way would be best.

    Thank you

    Edit: I just discovered the plugin I was trying to give access to, has its own restriction as to which user role can access it, so I guess a third party plugin won’t work. But I will leave this thread open in case there are options out there.

    • This topic was modified 3 weeks, 3 days ago by stephunique. Reason: Update
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  • Steve Burge

    (@stevejburge)

    3 weeks, 3 days ago

    Hi @stephunique. I’m following up as one of the team members at PublishPress Capabilities. You commented over in our support area, so I thought it would be helpful to follow up.

    Yes, as you’ve discovered this entirely depends on the developer of the plugin you’re using. Some plugins use core WordPress capabilities. Other plugins have their own unique capabilities.

    PublishPress Capabilities automatically recognizes these unique capabilities for dozens of popular plugins. However, for a less popular plugin there’s no easy way to know unless you read the documentation for that specific plugin.

    Thread Starter stephunique

    (@stephunique)

    3 weeks, 2 days ago

    Hello Steve,

    Thank you and the wordpress moderators for deleting the review I posted while I was writing a reply to your colleague’s unfair response.

    Allow me to respond to your statements here.

    First of all, I was actually referring to Adminimize when I said that the plugin I was trying to give other users access to, has their own restrictions. Both Adminimize and Hide Admin Menu has a table that lets you hide admin menus. It has nothing to do at all with PublishPress.

    I then included PublishPress to avoid people wasting their own time recommending it to me. I tested Adminimize and Hide Admin Menu first and when it didn’t work, I tried PublishPress due to its title, as I mentioned in the review that is now deleted. That is when I discovered the admin menu function does not exist in the free version of the plugin, despite its name and first few sentences/paragrah description (depending on where you see the plugin).

    So I was not referring to PublishPress at all.

    By looking up my activity history, tracking down this thread, creating a reply that is not related to your plugin, and then requesting moderators to delete my review (which did, despite what your colleage said, contained evidence), you have only revealed the pettiness of your business.

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