Allow user to edit widget (or specific widget)

  • Hello,

    I’m looking for a solution to my problem with setting rights (capabilities). I want to reach that particular user can only edit widget (or specific widget), nothing else. I was inspired by this topic Allow editing widget settings but not plugins themselves but still I can not get the rights set correctly. Is there someone experienced who have succeeded with this method? I know this problem is not only about great plugin User Role Editor (thanks to developer/s ;)), but this plugin is the main ingredient of success.

    My procedure:
    1. I created edit_theme_widget capability
    2. I set Capabilities to user for example called Carl
    3. By Admin Menu Editor plugin (source for this method is in link above) I created new menu tab called “Widget Settings” and set “Required Capability” to “edit_theme_widget” and “URL” to “widgets.php”

    Unfortunately, when me as a user Carl ?? want to go to the “Widget Settings” page, WordPress will not let me because I do not have permissions. I’m practically a beginner with WordPress and I don’t know exactly superiority of capabilities and therefore I can not properly set these capabilities.

    Could someone help me with step-by-step guide to set this?
    Thank you very much.

    With best regards
    Shalladan

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/user-role-editor/

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  • I use Admin Menu Editor to do things like this. You can specify which capability gives access to specific menu areas. So as to guide you though this:

    1. Install admin menu editor
    2. On the menu editor settings (setting>menu editor) click on appearance then on the dropdown for widgets
    3. Change the required capability to your custom one.

    You may need to set the appearance capability to the same thing to access the widgets menu.

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