Help submenu showing up for low level users

[Adrian]

Hi,
I have an annoying problem with ECP 2.0.11, the Help submenu item keeps showing up for low level users while they should not have access to this. The plugin worked ok on my dev site, but when I moved over to the live site the submenu keeps showing up.

[Barry]

Hi Adrian,

It doesn’t seem to show up for me for users of the editor role or below. I see you noted that you tried deactivating all other plugins and reverting to a default theme, but is there anything else that might be different on your site?

Have you edited any user roles/capabilities for instance, even if you then deactivated the plugin you used to do that?

[Adrian]

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[Barry]

Hi Adrian,

The presence or absence of the license key shouldn’t really impact here (so far as I know). What is the role of the user account you provided details of – admin/editor/contributor etc?

[Adrian]

It’s a custom role of level 4.

[Barry]

OK, so I’m not sure we can help too much with that if it’s something you’ve created yourself. What I would note is that the use of old style ‘user levels’ is officially discouraged:

Prior to version 2.0, WordPress used a user User Levels system. This was replaced in version 2.0 with the much improved and more extensible Roles and Capabilities system you see today. To maintain backwards compatibility with plugins that still use the user levels system (although this is very much discouraged), the default Roles in WordPress also include Capabilities that correspond to these levels. User Levels were finally deprecated in version 3.0.

Perhaps you could consider revising your approach?

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