Hello,
the theme is hiding <b>Post settings</b> to authors who haven’t got the permission to publish posts directly:
I want authors to use the post setting provided by the theme. How can I fix this issue?
Hi,
The theme uses the wordpress default roles and capabilities for users, please check this article about user roles and attributions – https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities also here – https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
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Hello,
could you please explain me how can I use the resources you linked in order to solve the issue?
Your theme is displaying Post settings only if the user has the capability to publish. So, a contributor is not able to use those settings. Please investigate better and let me know 🙂
Hi,
What I meant is that any user role that can publish posts – https://www.screencast.com/t/9iqExzZhHu should have access to the post settings in the dashboard. I have tested this by creating a user with author role and indeed have access to the post settings of the posts created by that author – https://www.screencast.com/t/i5ff2NtPI5
A contributor or a user does not have this priviledge – https://www.screencast.com/t/gAV0vEaWKp2 So only users with autor roles or higher in hierarchy – https://www.screencast.com/t/wiU7gR5d have access to these settings. Hope this helps you.
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Hi,
What I meant is that any user role that can publish posts – https://www.screencast.com/t/9iqExzZhHu should have access to the post settings in the dashboard.
I say every user that can write posts must have access to the post settings in the dashboard. Don’t you think?
WordPress is meant also for multi-author blogs/websites and as you can imagine not all authors can have the capability to publish: each author has different capabilities.
NOTE: when I say author I mean a user who can create content on a website. It has nothing to do with the definition of author given here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/. So a user can be a “author” also without the capability to publish A.K.A. Contributor
Hope you understand 🙂
Hi,
An author role coresponds acording to WordPress to these capabilities as specified here – https://www.screencast.com/t/nWtrXqOQpvC0 so an author has access to the post settings but not a contribuitor – https://www.screencast.com/t/S8WKUazne9f If you want your contribuitors to have access to the same settings you must change their role to author. Or you could search for a plugin that can modify user roles and their capabilities, but unfortunately no such plugins were tested with the theme for compatibility.
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Dear Simion,
could you please delegate someone else to this thread? It seems there is a communication gap between us.
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Hello,
The theme was built this way and can only be changed with custom modifications made to the theme code. Alternatively you can use a plugin to add the exact same capabilities to your contributors as authors have. Basically you want to change the default user roles and capabilities of wordpres but the theme cannot do this. It is not an easy modification to make from the theme side so we suggest using a role manager plugin to edit the user roles.
Thank you!
Bogdan B
Hello Bodgan,
as I wrote before, the way this part of the theme has been implemented is not ok because Post settings should be available to all those user who can write an article/post not just to only those who have the capability to publish an article. Please try meditating on this point.
Basically you want to change the default user roles and capabilities of wordpres but the theme cannot do this
No, I don’t want to do this. I want my contributors to use Post settings. I can not do this because the theme displays those settings only to those users (according to WordPress official user roles) who have the capability to publish i.e. administrators, editors and authors (I’ve tested this by myself by using the User Role Editor plugin).
I hope this time I was clear enough, let me know otherwise.
Thanks in advance.
Yes, you were clear the first time. We understood exactly what you want. But what you want is only possible through customization. You can hire a developer/freelancer to help out on this as custom work is not covered by the theme support.
Thank you!
Don’t you think the choice you made needs to be corrected? Do you really think is logical to show Post settings only to the users who can post? Contributors can write articles too!
I really hope you fix this “bug” in the next update release of this theme.
Since then I need to patch this by myself. Which file I need to edit? The one Simion mentioned before?
Hello,
This was a choice made by the developers. We had no complaints until now from our users. A contributor is one who contributes to an article but is not a post author. The post author is the one that can change the appearance of a post. A contributor ‘contributes’ with content but does not have the capabilities to edit the post layout. As I said above. It was a decision made at the development stage. We have to keep the theme in tone with the majority of users. If this request gets more popular and more people ask it, we will add it in, no problem. I will add it as a suggestion though as we do not ignore customer suggestions. I cannot promise you it will make it in the theme though.
Thank you for your understanding.
Hi,
The file you want is td_templates_settings.php and it is found in the Theme folder->includes->wp_booster->wp_admin->content-metaboxes here – https://www.screencast.com/t/pgeQuaEh
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I’m having this issue too, and to be honest, it only started after I upgraded the theme yesterday to version 7.6.1. Before that version, a contributor could edit the Post Settings and edit fields like Subtitle, etc.
I agree with the user who started this thread when he says that contributors should be able to edit post settings, just like it was before. There’s plenty of occasions when I’ll want a user to be able to edit every single field on his post, including Post Settings, but won’t want him to publish it.
Anyways, I see there’s this workaround editing the code, but like I said, this restriction is new to me and I have been using the theme for a long time now.
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Hi,
@tonyaiex As explained above, an author role and a contributor role have these capabilities – https://www.screencast.com/t/YBD1gThEz as specified here – https://www.screencast.com/t/pMcFleKaUu If you want your contributors to have the capabilities of an author you must make the modification in the code – https://www.screencast.com/t/26IbxvyB or search for some plugins with those possibilities.
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