Updating plugin disallows user access

Hi @jrh001,

Actually, in v. 3.5.4 some of the plugin code was implemented accordingly to the WordPress Plugin Guideline.

And we need to implement as instructed via the Plugin Review team.

You can use a helpful plugin to provide access to other user roles: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/user-role-editor/

We hope this helps.

Thanks & Great Day.

I don’t understand what you mean and think perhaps you have misunderstood the problem I am describing. Are you saying that WordPress has required you to change your plugin code to deny anyone other than administrators the ability to manage sliders? Why would WordPress do that? Why would you be required, for example, to deny users with a role of “Editor” access to the UR Image Slider plugin in the WP dashboard?

And are you saying that if I use the “User Role Editor” plugin, I will be able to give users with “Editor” privileges access to the UR Image Slider plugin again? If so, why should I have to use a separate plugin for Editors to be able to use UR Image Slider? If WordPress allows a plugin to modify user roles to be able to access UR Image Slider, why not just go back to the way it was and let Editors access UR Image Slider directly without the need for another third-party plugin? It makes no sense.

We also have this problem and when I look at the Editor role permissions I can see that all capabilities are ticked for UR Image Slider.

Can you tell me what other capabilities are needed to be able to see the UR section in the control panel?

Ian

@cihomewood, thanks for confirming that this is a problem with the UR Image Slider plugin. I have also previously tried using a user permissions plugin only to discover that the permission to access the URIS plugin are already there.

Hi @jrh001 @cihomewood,

Here are the major changes between version 3.5.3 > 3.5.5 which broke the user access functionality.

Actually, we added this code accordingly to the WordPress plugin guidelines.

If we don’t follow these guidelines our plugin will go down.

CHANGES:
https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/changeset/2684297/ultimate-responsive-image-slider/trunk/ultimate-responsive-image-slider.php?old=2560413&old_path=ultimate-responsive-image-slider%2Ftrunk%2Fultimate-responsive-image-slider.php

*Solution only for you guys:*

Find and comment these lines into ultimate-responsive-image-slider.php plugin file.

if ( current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) { // comment this opening statement line
} // comment this closing statement line

Thanks

Thanks for the update. Instead of changing the code I have enabled ‘Manage Options’ for the editor role and that has resolved the issue.

Ian

Perfect, That’s also a good option to manage this.

I have also resolved the problem by enabling “Manage Options”. Thanks.