Capabilities?

Hi @zilveer,

you can hide it with custom post type capability type.

Here’s the filter: https://github.com/Kubitomakita/Notification/blob/dev/inc/Notifications.php#L77

But I don’t feel like I’m the right person to help with capabilities. In a few years of my career, I didn’t manage to do it correctly and in a way which would satisfy me ??

So basically when you will use this filter and provide some other capability name you would need to add all default capabilities to your admin user. Reference: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/register_post_type#Arguments (capability_type argument)

@kubitomakita thanks for replying so quick.

I cannot find any capability which is created by the plugin? What is its name?

I use “Role Editor” to manage capabilities and roles.

It is quite easy, just create a capability, for. i.e “notification_view”, use the following code

if( !(current_user_can('manage_options') || current_user_can('notification_view'))){
        wp_die('Access Denied');
    }
//rest of the code for attaching the Notification to the menu"

When this done then I can use “notification_view” capability to check whether or not a user /role should be able to see the menu for Notications ??

EDIT: If I found the capability name I could manage to solve it myself.. but I cannot find any capability for the plugin Notifications :/

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• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by zilveer. Reason: edit code
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This wouldn’t work this way @zilveer.

You can try to add any custom capability and check on admin_init if users have it. If not then die(), but it would not hide the menu.

Ideal way to achieve this is to use the 7 capabilities WordPress is creating by default (see the reference argument linked above). And Notification use the post capability type by default.

So any person which can add/edit posts can see the Notifications menu.

I would add an capability and make sure that the capability is always set to true for the logged in user to get access to the plugin.
in this way a user role could have an capability added to its role whether or not he/she should be able to add notifications or not.

as now it is added to default post capabilities, meaning that anyone who can create a post is able to add notifications which is (for me anyway) lack of security.

I would appreciate if there was a solution on this part soon ??

And once again thanks for your quick replies and your time for this poject! You are doing this awesome!