User Roles and Capabilities

Hey everyone. I’m working on displaying certain (WordPress) custom admin pages to certain WordPress users based on their roles (Admin, Editor etc)

So I assigned submenu 1 to the Admin and submenus 2 and 3 to the Editor.

add_submenu_page( $parent_slug, $page_title, 'submenu 1', 'administrator', $menu_slug, $function ); 

add_submenu_page( $parent_slug, $page_title, 'submenu 2', 'editor', $menu_slug, $function ); 

add_submenu_page( $parent_slug, $page_title, 'submenu 3', 'editor', $menu_slug, $function ); 

Well, this is what happens: The Editor sees submenus 2 and 3 so that’s good but the admin sees only submenu 1! I thought that the admin would be able to see submenus 1, 2 and 3! It looks I was wrong in thinking this.

What would you suggest I do so that the admin sees all 3 submenus while the editor sees only those menus assigned to him?

Use conditionals like so:

if (current_user_can('manage_options')) :

add_submenu_page( $parent_slug, $page_title, 'submenu 1', 'level_7', $menu_slug, $function ); 

add_submenu_page( $parent_slug, $page_title, 'submenu 2', 'level_8', $menu_slug, $function ); 

add_submenu_page( $parent_slug, $page_title, 'submenu 3', 'level_9', $menu_slug, $function ); 

else:

add_submenu_page( $parent_slug, $page_title, 'submenu 2', 'level_8', $menu_slug, $function ); 

add_submenu_page( $parent_slug, $page_title, 'submenu 3', 'level_9', $menu_slug, $function );

endif;

If that doesn’t work change level_7, level_8 & level_9 to something else like level_10.

@ThemeProvince are you sure that conditionals are needed? wouldn’t it work like this:

@infuse01 – Your method is what I first thought of. But its kinda too similar to her code hence i just gave the next best thing.

Hm ok, maybe its due to the old user roles (administrator, editor)...however I just tried it out and both attempts working perfect – possibly only a matter of taste which attempt to choose of

Thanks guys! So you would suggest not to use the “roles” (administrator, editor, etc) but rather the “capabilities” (manage_options, etc), right? I’ll give it a go and update this thread

@ThemeProvince: I think I’ll stay away from level_8 etc because of this: http://codex.wordpress.org/User_Levels don’t you think?

srhnbr said
Hey everyone. I’m working on displaying certain (WordPress) custom admin pages to certain WordPress users based on their roles (Admin, Editor etc)

So I assigned submenu 1 to the Admin and submenus 2 and 3 to the Editor.

add_submenu_page( $parent_slug, $page_title, 'submenu 1', 'administrator', $menu_slug, $function ); 

add_submenu_page( $parent_slug, $page_title, 'submenu 2', 'editor', $menu_slug, $function ); 

add_submenu_page( $parent_slug, $page_title, 'submenu 3', 'editor', $menu_slug, $function ); 

Well, this is what happens: The Editor sees submenus 2 and 3 so that’s good but the admin sees only submenu 1! I thought that the admin would be able to see submenus 1, 2 and 3! It looks I was wrong in thinking this.

What would you suggest I do so that the admin sees all 3 submenus while the editor sees only those menus assigned to him?

have a look at this

http://sethstevenson.net/customize-the-wordpress-admin-menu-based-on-user-roles/