Registered Members Admin Panel

  • I’m planning on building a pseudo social network site, giving each registrant author roles, however there is too much going on in the admin panel. Things like the dashboard, upload feature, optional excerpts, trackbacks, custom fields, discussion settings, post password, post slug, post status, and post timestamp, complicate things for the average user and would basically like to cut this all out, of course the Super Admin (me) should still see this, is there a way I could modify it to that extent? I know that setting the role to contributor removes the upload feature, but I want to have each member be able to publish.

    That brings me to my next point regarding publish, is there a way to remove the “save and continue editing” and “save” button and just leave the publish button, I remember when I first started out with WP that was sort of confusing, sorry I’m not giving my future members much credit here :P.

    Other things I would like to remove are the comments Tab, I would like to leave the Manage Tab, but can I limit that so only the posts that the author wrote be shown and not all posts? Also would it be possible to remove the Upload Sub-tab. I’m still a bit shaky regarding this because I’m not 100% on giving authors ability to delete posts first without my authorization.

    Just to clarify things the ultimate purpose is to edit Author Roles admin panel while leaving the Super Admin intact. Thanks for any help!

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  • See if this gets you going:
    https://barunsingh.com/software/custom-admin-menu/

    Couldn’t really find anything about restricting post edit to just the author but I didn’t look real hard.

    I did find this thread about restricting page management to the author though:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/75194

    Thread Starter Doobus

    (@doobus)

    Played around with the “custom-admin-menu” plugin and it does some of the things I need such as hiding certain tabs however I’m still unable to remove certain blocks in the “write” tab such has post slug, post timestap, ect…

    As close as this is to what I want, it falls short because its a Universal change, I’m unable to have multiple setups for different roles, I.E. whatever Super Admin changes I do, it applies to all roles, so if I limit what my “authors” see, I also limit what I see as a Super Admin.

    Possibly there is a more direct solution such as going straight to the source? I mean WordPress already handles roles and limits and hides accordingly what capabilities those roles can do (Contributor role can’t see publish button, as well as upload block), maybe someone can give me some insight on how to implement what I’m trying to accomplish by going into the code and doing some dirty work. Thanks again!

    Late night reading:
    Adding_Administration_Menus
    Plugin_API/Action_Reference
    Plugins/Admin_Tools

    Or give people this form and don’t require login to post.
    https://thedeadone.net/software/tdo-mini-forms-wordpress-plugin/

    And this, Likoma’s tutorials
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/83047?replies=13

    I also assume you already are familiar with the Role Manager plugin.

    Thread Starter Doobus

    (@doobus)

    Yes I’m aware of the Role Manager plugin, I’m definitely going to use it to help achieve some of the things I listed.

    The mini-forms-wordpress-plugin is nice, but I’m trying to build a community with faces behind each contributed post, I’m planning on using author pages to emulate a profile page, buts thats for another thread.

    I’m a bit confused with some of the references you suggested. I’m not sure what direction you’re going with regarding Plugins.

    Thread Starter Doobus

    (@doobus)

    Ok I figured it out, I just did an if else statement regarding user level in the edit-form-advance file.

    There is however one thing I’m still stumped on, and that is how to edit the Manage tab to only show posts that the author wrote, again Admin should still be able to see all posts. Also one other feature I’d like to do is remove the delete button and restrict that power only to Admin… Any ideas, thanks for all the help so far.

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