Translator role

  • Resolved erenor

    (@erenor)


    7 years, 4 months ago

    Hello.

    I added Loco Translate, added “Translator” role to a new user, then tried logged in. That user cannot access nor wp-admin nor the direct Loco-translate settings page.

    I checked Translator’s capabilities: “read” and “loco-admin”. I can make it access the backend adding “manage-options” capability (and the user can see a very few items in the back-end menu), but that shouldn’t be the expected behaviour.

    How to fix this?

    Thank you.

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  • Plugin Author Tim W

    (@timwhitlock)

    The translator role should see just Dashboard, Profile and Loco Translate in the side menu. Is this what you get? This is deliberate. It’s a role provided specifically for people who must only access those things and nothing else.

    If you want someone to access specific things (like posts) plus Loco Translate then you should instead extend their role to allow translation access.

    See: Granting access to roles

    Thread Starter erenor

    (@erenor)

    Hello, thank you for your fast response.

    I didn’t say anything about posts, I’m talking strictly about Dashboard and Loco Translate management. But I can see the problem arises when other plugins hiding the Dashboard (like WooCommerce) are installed.

    I’m pointing it out here so that maybe other people with the same issue can understand what’s “wrong”. On a fresh install users are able to access the “back-end” to edit their profile and so, if they are translators, they can also manage Loco Translate and translate plugins and themes.

    I’m marking this as “resolved”, since it wasn’t a Loco-related issue.

    Thank you!

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