Since last update to Newspaper V 8.7.5, the users of the website I built for a client (Newspaper) can’t use the ‘Post settings’ anymore within a post. I’m using the WP Members plugin to distinguish roles between users. If I give a member a full editor role, he can use the post settings, but with limited rights it’s not possible anymore. Before the update there was no problem.
Hi,
I don’ think there were any changes made in the theme for the post settings. It would be same as before, author roles or higher (roles that have publish post rights) have access to the post settings
– https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
I just tested with an author role user, it has access to the post settings same as before
– https://www.screencast.com/t/vJPOSKFdfG3D
Maybe that plugin in interfering with these default rights, you could check it’s settings again.
Thanks
But what about publishing tools , they are missing some , they are not the same as the admin’s ?
thank you
Sorry , all good !
Thank you for you answer Simion.
I have to admit that we haven’t done a theme update since setting up the website, our earlier version was 6.3.2.:-) But in that version it was definitely possible for our editors with limited access to use the Post settings. My client is a mayor newspaper on our island and they have editors that can only create and edit their own posts. And then there is the head-editors that can publish. Now the editors can’t make subtitles anymore and also they can’t choose the post template.
Editors will have access to the post settings. They have access to the composer as well, and can create pages. You can see a test I made with an editor level user
– https://www.screencast.com/t/aPHTYfCuy4zQ
– https://www.screencast.com/t/WH2D0FiuiRH3
– https://www.screencast.com/t/UlqA3YLJ
Only contributors and subscribers would not have access to the post settings. If you have editor level users that are not seeing the post settings, then there were modifications made to the user role capabilities by some action. Try to create a test editor role user, check with that.
Hi Simion,
Indeed our ‘editor’ have limited access, they can’t publish, they are in fact ‘contributers’. So I understand why they don’t see the post settings.
But before, in Newspaper 6.3.2, it was different, because then they were able to use the post settings, although they had also the ‘contributor’ role. So something has changed in this, and that was my point.
In the situation of my client the only solution is to give them full editor rights, but that includes the part that they can publish, which we don’t want.
Anyway, thanks for the explanation.
