Authors Not Able to Add Rating.. Message "You don't have enough privileges to..

Hi ishanbansal, thank you for using YASR!

Only who have the “publish_posts” capability can insert overall rating. According to the wordpress documentation, an Author should have the capability to publish_post.

Did you removed that capablity to authors with your plugin?

Best,
Dario

Hi Dudo

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I removed the option of publish posts for my author, so that editorial team can check the posts first.

Is there a way to give ratings rights to those who do not have publish post options?

Thanks.

Hi ishanbansal, you could do this by editing the plugin:

In the plugin dir open filelib/yasr-functions.php and on both lines 158 and 168 change this

if ( current_user_can( 'publish_posts' ) ) {

with this

if ( current_user_can( 'edit_posts' ) ) {

it should work.

Best,
Dario

Hi Dario,

I have a similar situation. I want my contributors to give ratings. (I do not have customized roles)

I made the changes you suggested above. When I login as a contributor, the YASR stars are there but when I click on them, I get the message “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” and the rating does not stick with the post.

I was wondering if I also needed to modify yasr-ajax-functions.php too?

Help!

Cheers
Robert.

OK Dario, I made the same changes in yasr-ajax-functions.php and it worked. Hope I didn’t screw up something else in the process.

Cheers,
Robert.

Hi Robert, you’re right, I simply forgot that ??

It will work as you need.

Best,
Dario

Thanks Dario. I love the plugin btw. Excellent work.

Thanks for the fix, that makes it totally perfect!

In the yet-another-stars-rating/lib/yasr-functions.php there is a typo in the auto response:

_e(“You don’t have enought privileges to insert Multi Set”);

Another in yet-another-stars-rating/lib/yasr-ajax-functions.php

/If there is not sinppet type, can happen when an user choose the snippet but doesn’t use overall rating

Angela

Thank you for sharing this!