Custom user role cannot access Events in admin

[Mark]

I am having a problem that seems very strange. I created a new custom user role for a project and cannot figure out why the Events menu will not show in the admin when logged in as a user with the custom role. I have triple checked the capabilities of my custom role and it seems it should be working but the Events menu will not display.

I read this forum post:

Role-Based Access to Event Editing Creation

Joey said that you guys rely on the basic WP capabilities for permissions, I am using these (Editor capabilities):
‘delete_others_pages’ => true,
‘delete_others_posts’ => true,
‘delete_pages’ => true,
‘delete_posts’ => true,
‘delete_private_pages’ => true,
‘delete_private_posts’ => true,
‘delete_published_pages’ => true,
‘delete_published_posts’ => true,
‘edit_others_pages’ => true,
‘edit_others_posts’ => true,
‘edit_pages’ => true,
‘edit_posts’ => true,
‘edit_private_pages’ => true,
‘edit_private_posts’ => true,
‘edit_published_pages’ => true,
‘edit_published_posts’ => true,
‘manage_categories’ => true,
‘manage_links’ => true,
‘moderate_comments’ => true,
‘publish_pages’ => true,
‘publish_posts’ => true,
‘read’ => true,
‘read_private_pages’ => true,
‘read_private_posts’ => true,
‘unfiltered_html’ => true,
‘upload_files’ => true,

Any idea why the Events menu would not display?

Thanks!

[Jonah]

Hi Mark, can you please post the code you are using to create the new Role so I can test it out locally? Please post to http://snippi.com/ or https://gist.github.com/

Thanks,
Jonah

[Mark]

Thanks for the quick response Jonah.

Here ya go: http://snippi.com/s/vlgnuk8

[Jonah]

Hi Mark,

We actually add a bunch of our capabilties now. You can see what’s added for admins, editors, etc by looking at /wp-content/plugins/the-events-calendar/lib/the-events-calendar.class.php around line 737. You should be able to take this and model it with your add_role function to setup your custom role.

Does that help?

– Jonah

[Mark]

Ahaa!! Success! Thank you very much! I strongly suggest you add these specifics to the documentation as this was a crucial bit of code to get my project moving and would’ve been a deal-breaker had I not been able to get this working. Once again we truly appreciate the prompt and friendly support. Cheers!

[Jonah]

Sweet, glad that worked! Good call, I’ve gone ahead an added an FAQ for the mean time: https://theeventscalendar.com/faq/what-plugin-capabilities-are-there-for-creating-custom-roles/ – we’re planning on doing some documentation updates in the near future so it will make more sense to include this somewhere else then.

Let me know if you need anything else!

– Jonah

[Mark]

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[Jonah]

Hi Mark,

First try deactivating all other plugins to make sure another plugin is not interfering with things. Let me know if you’ve done that.

Thanks,
Jonah

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