We may need a little more information on the version of WordPress you are running, or at least the interface you are seeing that the new admin is not seeing. Typically, when I troubleshoot WordPress installations and I have to add an administrator, I have full access just like an admin. So, it shouldn’t be … Read more
$args[‘before_widget’] and $args[‘afters_widget’] (or after_widget) are things you’d add to a front-end sidebar widget. They have no relevance to dashboard widgets. The call to $args[‘before_widget’] is likely throwing an error because it’s not set. Also, your wp_dashboard_setup hook callback is an anonymous function. This won’t work on PHP < 5.3. So double check your PHP … Read more
2FA for admin login only, is it doable?
Possibly a simpler way to handle this problem is just use the new wp_editor function (introduced in 3.3). The main drawback is described in the function description: … you cannot put it in meta-boxes that can be dragged and placed elsewhere on the page. Technically, you can, it’s just not going to play nice if … Read more
“Developer” implies that he will have access to the code – in which case he has carte blanche to do whatever he likes. If you actually mean he just has access to the site admin – and I assume this is multisite as you mentioned being a Super Admin – then a site Admin cannot … Read more
Note that there’s no is_admin() method for the WP_Query class. But the interesting part is that PHP will not complain about this: $query->is_admin() where $query is an instance of WP_Query. It will just always return false. This is the reason why (#src): /** * Make private/protected methods readable for backwards compatibility. * * @since 4.0.0 … Read more
We can set the author_url argument of WP_Comment_Query as null (empty string will not work) to search for comments that don’t have an author url. Currently (ver 4.8.1) the has_author_url isn’t supported. Using a sub-query to exclude those comments, with no author_url, using comment__not_in, should work, but wouldn’t probably scale well. Setting fields as ids … Read more
Ok I resolved the problem. It turns out I have mistakenly copied the .po files (fr_FR) of my theme into the /language folder and not /language/themes, so WordPress was picking the .po of my theme and not the one from wordpress. I moved the po file to the themes folder and hit refresh on my … Read more
Since you asked for recommended approaches… Why code your own custom dashboard? What is WordPress not doing that yours would? WordPress is 15 years old with contributions from hundreds of developers. Are you sure that your dashboard is going to be better, and worth your time (or your clients’ time) to code? I don’t mean … Read more
You should define which resources you want to protect. I think you have such choices: 1) Protect whole site 2) Protect only posts (without resources) 3) Protect posts & all resources (but only uploads, not wp-content! otherwise you will break your themes/plugins) So, as you say you need 3rd way. In such case, you should … Read more