How do I make this (and the pages) appear for authors, now that they actually have the relevant capabilities? They don’t have the needed capabilities, just because a role can add/edit/remove users does not mean they can list_users. Similarly there are other capabilities such as role promotion etc, here’s the code for administrators, e.g. this … Read more
Much easier to use a simple plugin that has hooks and can allow for pages/posts to be accessible by the non-logged in public. https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-force-login/
A CSS rule would be the simple action. You can just create a single global admin area foot script set of instructions and disable a whole series of elements by user capability and simply add instructions as needed, and affect all areas of the admin area. functions.php or create a plugin that would give flexibility … Read more
I’ve figured out a possible way to do this, so I want to post my answer here for future reference and anyone else that might find it useful. There is a free plugin called “WP Remote Users Sync”, here is the page for it, it is also on github. This pluign only works on individual … Read more
As mentioned by Jacob Peattie: functions not loaded yet. You will need to use hooks/actions (init, wp etc) https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference e.g. function callMyMethod(){ $userLoggedIn = is_user_logged_in(); echo ‘INIT Action: User Logged in: ‘.var_export($userLoggedIn, true); if ( is_admin() ) { $canAccess = user_can_access_admin_page(); } } add_action(‘init’,’callMyMethod’); This answer is assuming you’re creating a plugin and calling the … Read more
Hardening user’s role after add_role
User has empty instead of custom role when logged in
Reducing the number of checks increases the performance of your code, so yes, check is_user_logged_in() and current_user_can() as few times as you can. For executing functions depending on the admin page, I’d probably attach callbacks to load-{$pagenow} hook (untested): function wpse417218_do_something_for_edit_page() { if ( ‘page’ !== get_current_screen()->id ) { return; } if ( ! current_user_can( … Read more
In Multisite, Core only allows super admins to edit CSS by default. One of the reasons is that there are some security edge cases, especially in older browsers. To allow site admins, you’ll need to grant them the edit_css capability. It sounds like you tried to do that with your plugin, but without seeing the … Read more
User roles empty