Super Admin after update

  • Resolved chachalady

    (@chachalady)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    Hello,
    before I made this update (yesterday I updated the plugin from 2.8.4 to the newest version…)
    I had (before update) a line of code in Config Press where I put the ID of my user to define it as Super Admin.

    One of my users had Administrator role and one was Super Admin.
    After the update I don’t see the Config Press part any longer and both of my users are Administrators now.

    I was logged in as a user which was Super Admin before and I saw that I can edit user profile of the other user and change role to Super Admin. And I change it.

    In other browser I logged in as the user I change to Super Admin and I saw that I do not see the AAM tab any more ( in the admin part, dashboard …).
    I change that user back to Administrator role and there it was – AAM tab was there again.

    Do I need to check something in Super Admin role to make sure the user who is super admin can have access to AAM settings? I can not find it, what to check or uncheck ..

    Is it essential to have one user as Super Admin?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/advanced-access-manager/

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  • Hi chachalady,

    Thank you for great questions!

    There are a lot of changes with AAM 3. One the biggest things is that AAM no longer supports “super admin” functionality. It was a experimental feature and it does not really make user a “super”. If you still want to use this idea, simply create the new role “Super Admin” and inherit all capabilities from the administrator role. Assign this role to one user and then limit the “Administrator” role in the way you need it.

    ConfigPress no longer a part of the AAM. It is a separate plugin that you can download from the official WordPress repository https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/configpress/. It is considered as a development tool and it is useless unless you are trying to avoid hardcoding in your own code (https://vasyltech.com/blog/how-to-avoid-hard-coding-in-wordpress-plugin)

    Roles that have a capability “administrator” has also an access to AAM page. This behavior can be changed with ConfigPress settings:

    [aam]
page.capability = "different capability like level_8 or edit_posts"

    Best Regards,
    Vasyl

    Thread Starter chachalady

    (@chachalady)

    Thank you Vasyl for your answer,
    that is all I need to know – was just a bit confused eith Super Admin feature …
    Keep up the good work,
    best regards,
    chachalady

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