Today one site contributors told me that she does not see POST SETTINGS and can’t add information, including “review” info. WHY? This is kind of silly move. Can you guys please add it back to contributors to use too, they can’t publish anyway until moderators or administrators accept it and publish it.
Hello,
The theme uses the exact same user roles and capabilities of WordPress. We did not change anything. Please also test the contributor’s abilities on a WP default theme.
Thank you!
https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
Summary of Roles
Super Admin â somebody with access to the site network administration features and all other features. See the Create a Network article.
Administrator (slug: ‘administrator’) â somebody who has access to all the administration features within a single site.
Editor (slug: ‘editor’) â somebody who can publish and manage posts including the posts of other users.
Author (slug: ‘author’) â somebody who can publish and manage their own posts.
Contributor (slug: ‘contributor’) â somebody who can write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them.
Subscriber (slug: ‘subscriber’) â somebody who can only manage their profile.
Seriously Chris? What’s the point of posting it here?
Post settings part, what I am talking about here (remember magic word “reviews”) are not part of default wordpress, it’s a part of newspaper theme. It does not come with wordpress, it comes with newspaper theme. With WP default theme contributor have access to anything they should.
This is bug and it should be fixed.
Hi,
In order to have access to the reviews, a contributor needs access to the entire post settings and theme panel as well so if this is something you need, try to use a role manager and give the permissions you need to the contributors from the plugin settings. It is easier than editing the theme core files and having to re-make the modification after each update because it will not work through a child theme.
Thank you!
With other themes and review plugins we never had that sort of problem before. So why Newspaper is blocking completely normal needed thing for contributors? These reasons are incomprehensible to me.
And I already looked through the role manager and did not notice anywhere where I can give permissions for contributors only to Newspaper post settings (including review) plugin/part.
Most of our users are contributors who can write articles, make reviews, but they are not allowed to publish this things until editors are checked their articles.
You should really consider to fix it and make that plugin/part accessible to contributors too as most of other themes do today. Using LISTS, reviews, etc. it’s a part of posts.
Thank you for your suggestion.
Unfortunately you cannot allow just specific parts of the theme for certain user roles. In our theme you can either grant full theme options availability or none at all. It is not an easy task to allow just post theme settings for a user role. It can be done through coding if you have the proper coding skills but it will not be an easy task. if you do not have the proper skills for it, you can hire a freelancer to help out with the needed code.
Thank you!
Often for this kind of solution, it’s better to use a plugin for reviews, vs the theme platform for review ratings; this typically adds the meta box to the post pages for entry; then appends it to the end of the post meta section.
Or, another option is to create a new user role where you give all the permissions, but disable certain things.
Plugin is simpler method — we did this for one client as they wanted that to be ‘theme agnostic’ in case they decided to change themes a year later. I forget which plugin we used, but there are lots and lots of them out there.
Not sure that helped – just feedback.
That’s kind of stupid that it has been built that way that contributors either will have access everything as authors and editors have or they do not have access to post settings (including review plugin). Most of newspaper theme has been built up pretty well so for me is kind of big surprise to see something like that, how’s that possible that when you built it you did not look through different roles. It’s really strange not to let contributors to use things what they need to make new posts. đ
By the way I checked and I do not see that authors have access to theme panel, same time they have access to post settings and review part. So it means that it’s possible to make that change pretty easily.
Would even do that via user role editor, but have still not found that newspaper theme post settings part to enable to contributors. What name I should look or is it hidden the way that it does not show up on role manager plugin?
Hello,
You will not find the word “contributor” in the theme code as it comes from WP and is not a key that can be used in coding themes. We use this function to check the user roles:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/current_user_can
Thank you!
So there is no point to use user role editor plugin at all then, as you suggested in first place? I still can’t give permission to contributor (if I use newspaper theme) to create posts with reviews and other newspaper theme post settings (like adding source, etc.)?
Well we have not officially tested any user role editors but what I said above, does not mean you cannot use a user role editor. Such plugins also use the function I pointed out. Gibe it a shot as they are free. It takes about 5 minutes. Since this conversation went on, you could have tested them all and already found one that suits your purpose so you can move on and finish your project. The theme does not have any option you seek. Try plugins.
Thank you!
Before I posted that problem here, I already looked through these plugins.
Anyway I threw that review plugin completely away now. But another problem still remains post settings, where they can add/change source name and source url. Now I am looking to ways how to get rid of other part of newspaper theme. It’s kind of annoying when some parts clearly should be available to contributors but for some sick reason theme has been made it the way that only your site admins can make posts <- which is totally STUPID. There is reason why there is different roles in wordpress, like admin, author, contributor. All them should have different privileges, but ALL of them should be able to create full posts and thats how wordpress and most themes works. Newspaper is the first theme where you need to have full privileges to create full post. <- And it’s wrong. 100% wrong way.
Hi Edragon,
If you want to bring Post Settings for your contributors you should replace the publish_posts with edit_posts like this -> https://www.screencast.com/t/PSfhBwj9Y528
Hope this helps!
Thanks for your understanding!
thanks Catalin
