We recently upgraded to Newsmag 3.1 and appearently some of our writers can’t create a Review type of post. The panel with Post Settings is missing on the Posts page.
Also, it cannot be activated from the Screen Options panel, since ‘Post Settings’ isn’t shown there.
Any idea how to fix this?
Note: We also use the plugins User Role Editor and Menu Editor Pro but as far as I can see they don’t control or limit the Screen Options panel for Posts.
Hi
The theme displys post settings option only for users which have the capabilty to publish posts. According to wordpress documentation a user must be at least author in order to have the ability to publish posts. For more detaisl in this regar please check this link: https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#publish_posts
You can also change the capability in theme’s code: http://screencast.com/t/dYVxjWyxx
Hope this helps.
Thanks!
Hi Andrei, it’s fixed!
I’ve changed the td_templates_settings.php file like you showed and now it’s working again for Contibutors. So for now I’m happy 🙂
Since it used to work for Contributors in v2.x (I’m pretty sure of that) I want to ask you to make it work that way in future updates of the theme too. Not just for me, but because I think that’s the most logical situation: We have many Contributors that write articles and reviews but we don’t want them to publish them because someone else is in charge of that. But, as the link to Roles & Capabilities states, Contributors have full rights to write articles. So seems most logical to me that this also allowed them to write reviews and that requires access to the Review section of the Post Settings too, don’t you agree?
Thanks in advance!
Hi
Thanks for your suggestion. I will forward it to theme’s developers and they will consider it for future updates. However I can’t promise anything regarding the implementation at the moment.
Thanks!
Reading this conversation I found a solution also for me. Thanks fiftyfifty!
I used the same solutions of Andrei to fix the problem.
I think this is the most logical solution for contributors of a newspaper or a blog
Thanks again for the help
